What's Your Temperature?

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What's Your Temperature?

September 8, 2024 • Gerrit Dawson • Revelation 3:14–22

Lukewarm is the problem Christ Jesus found with the church in Laodicea. You know the feeling when you pick up the wrong cup, and you get day old swill? That’s what the Lord was feeling about the church in Laodicea. Bland. Inoffensive and uninspiring.

Such independence of course generated not only the good pride of being responsible but the bad pride of needing no one, of not being challenged, of getting stuck in the complacency of having too much comfort.

More from Behind the Curtain: The Book of Revelation

The Price of the Fight

September 29, 2024 • Gerrit Dawson • Revelation 6

Many commentators believe the horsemen of Revelation 6 represent God’s removing of his restraints on human depravity. Our natural tendencies get to progress without being checked. We lust and covet. We seek to acquire and possess. We hurt and kill each other to get it or protect it. A balanced peaceful life and economy disappear. The weak get trampled first, then the rest. Death has a field day. All this occurs when the Sovereign God lets us finally have what we demand.

Worthy Is the Lamb

September 22, 2024 • Gerrit Dawson • Revelation 5

Lesser gods are not worthy. But the Lamb who was slain and yet lives, he is the one who opens the scroll. He is the one who staked his life on a redeeming future. To the degree that we join our hearts and voices to his worship, our faith will flourish. And to the degree that are our faith flourishes, we will live in peace and hope. And to the degree we live in such trust, the world will be drawn to the gospel of the one true God, the Lamb on his throne.

Love Roller Coaster

September 15, 2024 • Scott Graham • Revelation 4

At the top of a rollercoaster, you see the entire park laid out before you. Revelation is the same, laying all of the previous books of the Bible out before us and firing our imagination with a vision that will exhilarate us through all of the shaking and rolling in life that will come.