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When You Feel You're at the End
by Jack Hayford
Text: Revelation 1:1–20
Topic: How to go on when life seems to be over
Big Idea: Whatever our circumstances, we must see that Jesus is here.
Keywords: Christ, authority of; Christ, love of; Circumstances and Faith; Despair; Difficulties; Experiencing God; God, power of; Holy Spirit; Jesus Christ; Presence of God; Prophecy; Revelation, Book of; Spiritual Perspective; Trials; Trouble; Worship
Introduction:
- Illustration: Hayford treasures personal letters from five famous people.
- Revelation is a personal letter from Jesus to his church.
- Illustration: Hayford describes three tragic situations faced by people he knows.
- This letter is not a revelation of prophecy or information, but of Jesus.
- This revelation of the person of Christ keeps the problems of life in perspective.
We can never be in a place where Christ's love won't find us.
- Illustration: Patmos was a Roman penal colony, a forsaken place.
We can never be bound so that the Spirit can't lift our soul with hope.
- Through the Spirit, we can transcend our circumstances into God's presence.
We can never lose when Jesus writes the end of our story.
- Since Jesus is the first and last, whatever we're in must only be the middle.
We can never fear because Jesus is closer and more powerful than we think.
- Revelation 1:12–16
- No one knew the earthly Jesus better than John, yet he is overcome with a sense of the majesty of the Savior.
We can never face anything God's power cannot take us through.
- The wounded feet of Jesus have become feet of dominion.
- Illustration: A young pastor felt forsaken by God and unable to trust him.
- Nothing we face is unanticipated by God's plan or unsurpassed by his power.
We can never be lost because Jesus holds us in his right hand.
- The stars in his right hand are his people.
- Philippians 2:15
Conclusion:
- This revelation of Jesus is for those at the end of time or the end of their rope.
- In the middle of our time, space, problems, Jesus is here.
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