Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat

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Blood, Toil, Tears andSweat
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Getting the Picture

• We need to see the elements in the vision
• Angel descends with little scroll
• Gives a loud shout (Psalm 29)
• John told to take the scroll and eat it

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Getting the Picture

• Eating the scroll rooted in the Old Testament
• Ezekiel 33-9
• Jeremiah 1516
• Both prophets were sent to a rebellious people

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God Is Sovereign Over theUnfolding of History

• John starts to write what he hears and is stopped
• Daniel 1210 2 Cor. 123-4
• Dt. 2929the secret things belong to God

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God Is Sovereign Over theUnfolding of History

• God does not reveal all things
• Sometimes the church will go through twists and
  turns, things we dont understand,
  disappointments and victories
• We can always know God has a plan

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There Is A Mission ToEmbrace

• The little scroll is the message of God for the
  world
• It includes the gospel and the coming judgment
• V. 7the mystery

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There Is A Mission ToEmbrace

• Ezekiel was sent to Israel
• Johnand thus the Church is told to deliver the
  message far and wide (v.11)
• We all have a mission to embrace individually and
  collectively

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There Is A Cost To BeBorne

• The scroll is sweet to the mouth bitter to the
  stomach
• As we bear Gods Word and live as His people we
  will experience certain things

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There Is A Cost To BeBorne

• Our spirits are burdened (Acts 1716)
• Our message elicits reactions
• 2 Cor. 214-16we will experience bitterness in
  the fact that we are hated and sometimes hurt