The text this week is Revelation 21:1-8, the happiest ending of all, when God’s age-long promise to dwell with us comes eternally true! The worship is focused on “Eternity,” and our longing for it, and the visual theme is the New Heavens and the New Earth.
Here is the link to the YouTube playlist: 170528 Heart Prep
Worship:
Revelation 19:6-9 Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns. 7Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; 8it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. 9And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”
Until the Daybreak NOTE: this is not the tune we use, which was written by Hannah Gronseth and is not (yet) available on YouTube. But the lyrics are the same.
Revelation 21:1-4 (NIV) Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
When the Roll is Called Up Yonder
Revelation 22:1-5 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. 4They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.
On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand
Offertory:
Dark Before the Dawn – Andrew Peterson
Benedictions:
Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand – Indelible Grace
Bonus Video: I’ll be using this in the sermon
Second Bonus Video: Lyric video just completed for the YouTube Channel
In The Night – by Andrew Peterson
