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I'm glad you're back for day 4 of our look together through Revelation chapter
15. We're going to look at the last half of verse 3 and verse 4 today. I'm glad
you're hanging in through these chapters.

These are the chapters of Revelation that are hard for many of us to study
because they talk about judgment. They talk about the reality of where this
world is headed, not the reality of where we are headed who know God and Jesus
Christ. That's going to come at the end of the book of Revelation.

That's what you've got to hang on for is the great hope that's at the end. But
that hope doesn't make any sense apart from the reality that we're seeing here
of what God is doing and how God's plan is unfolding. If you really want to
understand the love of God, you have to understand the wrath, the judgment of
God.

If you really want to understand the promise of eternity, you have to understand
how temporary this world really is. And these chapters, chapters 15 and 16,
solidify that truth in powerful ways for us. Now in chapter 15, we're seeing
what's happening before this judgment comes upon the world.

And it is a worship service in heaven. It is God being glorified even in the
midst of this, especially in the midst of this. We said a few days ago that they
sang a song, the song of Moses and the song of the lamb.

As they're singing those songs, there's something that sums it all up in some
way. And we hear what they're singing in the last half of verse 3 and verse 4.
Let me read those verses.

They sang, "Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true
are your ways, King of the ages. Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory
to your name?

For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your
righteous acts have been revealed. " As you hear this song, this song is all
about what God has done, is nothing about what we have done, what you have done.

That's the refreshing thing about this song. As you look at the song, it's about
God's deeds, about God's ways, it's about God's names, it's about God's
character, and it's also about our response. In fact, that's what we're going to
focus on today.

We hear two things in each of these areas, God's deeds, God's ways, God's names,
God's character, and then our response. When it comes to God's deeds, it says
those deeds are great and they are marvelous. You look at the deeds of God, the
things that he has done in your life, you look at the things that he has done
down through history, and you see how great and marvelous God's works really
are.

I can easily see, and you can too, the evil that's in this world, but I hope you
can as easily see because it's just as easily seen the deeds of God in this
world, the things that he is doing, the way he's working in hearts, the way he's
bringing people to himself, the way he's working in history, the way he's
protecting his people. His deeds are great and they are marvelous. His deeds are
great, they're deeds that anyone can see, anyone can notice, they are great, but
they're also marvelous.

There's something that we marvel at, there's something within us, when we see
that God has done it as a God thing, sometimes people will say, there's
something in our hearts that marvels at what only God can do. With men this is
impossible, but with God all things are possible. That's the marvel of God's
deeds.

They also sang about God's ways, and they sang two things about God's ways, just
and true are your ways. God's deeds are the things that he has done, God's ways
are the heart, the person out of which these things are done, and God's ways are
just and true. The Bible tells us that Moses not only understood the deeds of
God, he also understood the ways of God, and I want to be that kind of person,
someone who not only understands the things that God does in this world and says
God did that, but also understands the ways that God works in this world, and
gets in line to cooperate with what God is doing, and if you want to understand
God's ways, how he works in this world, you have to understand these two words,
he is just and he is true.

He is a holy God, and these words, just and true, express his holiness. God is
always going to accomplish his justice. We're going to see that in Revelation
chapter 16.

Justice is going to be done against evil. Justice is going to be satisfied. Now
for those of us who know God and Jesus Christ, if you've begun a relationship
with him through what he did for you on the cross, the justice of God against
your sin has been satisfied on the cross.

Jesus is both just and justifier. He justified you by what he did for you on the
cross. God's ways are just, and his justice is going to be accomplished.

God's ways are true. He is holy. There cannot be one lie with him.

Satan is a liar. He is all lie, but God is true. And in the end, everything that
he does will be true.

Nothing that God does can ever violate his ways of justice and truth. God's
deeds, great and marvelous, God's ways, just and true. God's names are talked
about in this song.

Two names are given, Lord God Almighty and King of the Ages. There are so many
names of God, hundreds in the Bible, Old Testament and New Testament. These
names express the greatness of who God is.

He is the Lord God Almighty. I know, those are three names actually, but they're
all put together. One would be enough, Lord alone would be enough, God alone
would be enough, Almighty alone would be enough, but here you have Lord God
Almighty.

That's almost too much. That's everything that God is. The power of who he is
collapsed into these three words.

He is Lord. Every knee will bow, every tongue will confess. He is God, the
creator of everything that I see, the sovereign over everything that I see.

He is Almighty. Nothing can oppose his power. And he is the King of the Ages.

This reminds us that God's control, God's power, the Lord God Almighty is there
over all ages. There is no time, there is no place where he is not King. He will
be King over all time and over all people.

There are those who resist his rule today, but in the end, every knee will bow
and every tongue will confess. Those are the names of God. Remember, this song
is all about what God has done, all about who God is, it's nothing about what we
have done.

Your deeds, great and marvelous. Your ways, just and true. Your names, Lord God
Almighty, King of the Ages.

And then it turns to, this song turns to your character. You alone are holy.
Your righteous acts will be revealed.

God's character is a character of holiness. That is all throughout this song,
it's all throughout the expression of what we're going to see in chapter 16, the
judgment of God. God is holy and so he cannot have unholiness in his presence.

He is a perfectly holy God. And this reminds us that God alone is holy. Now, in
Jesus Christ he has made you holy, he has given you holiness, and that's why the
Bible calls you a saint.

I don't know if you knew that, you're called a saint. Saint simply means holy. I
know you think saint is just those people who like got too old to sin or got
voted in somehow.

No, saint means that you have been given the holiness of God, but it comes from
him. God alone is holy, God alone is perfect, God alone is separate and
distinct. And through the cross, through Jesus' blood being given for us, he has
given us his holiness.

That is why we are now worthy through Christ, not worthy in ourselves, to stand
in his presence for all eternity. You alone are holy, and your righteous acts,
they will be revealed. What God has done for us in Christ, what God has done for
individuals down through the ages, what God has done for you in your life, in
the end that's the story that's going to be told for all of eternity.

Right now it seems like evil sometimes gets its way, it seems like that's the
only story that's told, but in the end it's not going to be that way. That's so
temporary. It doesn't feel that way to me, and I'm sure it doesn't feel that way
to you sometimes, but the truth is that is so temporary.

What will be forever is God's righteousness being revealed again and again and
again and again. And we're going to glory in it every day. Your deeds, your
ways, your names, your character.

And then this song also sings about our response. In this song, the song says
that all will fear and bring you glory, and the song reminds us that all nations
will come to you and worship before you. And to me, in both of those responses,
the fact that the word all is there is extremely important.

Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory to your name? All will. All
nations will come and worship before you.

In the end, we're all going to bow our knee before him, so why wait? In the end,
we're all going to worship him, so why wait? I don't want to worship him as one
who I'm facing in judgment.

I want to worship him as one who has given his life for me. This song is all
about who God is and our response to that. So my question to me and my question
to you today is, what kind of song are you going to sing?

Are you going to sing your own song? Are you going to sing a song about you? Or
are you going to sing a song about who he is and your response to that?

That's the song I want to sing. That's the song I want you to sing. A song that
grows from the heart, from his love, what he's done for you, and then your life
is sung out, is lived out in response to that.

Let's pray. Jesus, thank you. Thank you for what you did for me on the cross.

Thank you for what you gave for us. Thank you for your resurrection, your power,
and your glory. And I pray that as I recognize who you are, your deeds, your
ways, your name, your character, that my response would be to live that out in
my life.

Help me to focus on who you are and help me to remember that you have given me
the gift of a new way of living. You've given me the gift of new deeds to do.
You've given me the gift of a new name in Christ.

You've given me the gift of a new character because of who you are. Jesus, help
me to live that out today. In your name, I ask for your power to do this.

Amen. Tomorrow, seven angels are going to enter the scene.