GOD’S WORD FOR NOVEMBER 1 ~ ~ Revelation 5:9 ~ “ And they sang a new song, saying,

“Worthy are You to take the scroll and to break its seals; for You were slaughtered, and You purchased people for God with Your blood from every tribe, language, people, and nation.”

From the book, “We Shall See God” —Chapter entitled: “The Power and Glory of Our Redeemer” Part 1

This will be the last chapter used from this book. After today and tomorrow, parts 1 and 2, I will begin a new book entitled, “How to Read the Bible as if Your Life Depends on it—(because it does)” By Michael Youssef of “Leading the Way” ministries.

CHARLES SPURGEON:

This world is far from perfect, and we have reminders of that fact every day. But the brokenness we deal with isn’t too much for God to handle, and it doesn’t take Him by surprise. One day He will fulfill His plan of redemption – for us and for this world.

I pause for a moment to ask whether we are prepared to go to heaven and whether we are like those who are there. Remember that there is but one place for us besides. If we do not enter heaven, to praise with those perfect spirits, we must be driven from the divine presence to suffer with the condemned forever.

You recoil at the idea of “depart from Me, you cursed!” (Matthew 25:41). I invite you to trust in Him and find your sins forgiven, and so doing, you shall be prepared to meet the Lamb who sits upon the throne and there forever to adore His sacrifice while you enjoy the blessings that flow from it,.

May we all meet in heaven! It would be a dreadful thing if we could know the destiny of everybody here and find, among other things, that some here will never see the gates of pearl except from an awful distance, with a great gulf fixed between them.

May we be on the right side of that gulf!!! Get on the right side of it today!

“They sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, for You were slain, and by Your blood You ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nations.” (Revelation 5:9)

The first doctrine of this is that Christ is put in the front; His deity is affirmed. They sing, “Worthy are

You” A strong-winged angel speeds his way over earth and heaven and down the deep places of the universe, crying with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll?” (Revelation 5:2). but no answer comes, for no creature is worthy. Then came One of whom the church cries in its song, “Worthy are You.,”

Yes, He is worthy of all the praise and honor we can bring to Him. He is worthy to be called equal with God; He Himself IS God, very God of very God. And no man can sing this song, or ever will sing it, unless he believes Christ to be true deity and accepts Him as his Lord and God.

Next, is that the whole church (believers) delights in the mediation of Christ. Notice that it was when He had taken the scroll that they said, “Worthy are You to take the scroll” (Revelation 5:9). to have Christ standing between God and man is the joy of every believing heart. We could never reach up to God except that Christ has come to bridge the distance between us. He places one hand on man and the other upon God. He is the mediator who can lay His hand upon both, and the church greatly rejoices in this.

Remember that even the working of Providence is not apart from the mediation of Christ. I rejoice in this, that if the thunders be let loose, if plagues and deaths around us fly, the child of God is still under the mediator’s protection. No harm shall happens to the chosen, for Jesus always guards us. All power is given to Him in heaven and in earth, and the church rejoices in His role as mediator.

But now notice: what is her reason for believing that Christ is worthy to be a mediator? The church says, “Worthy are you…for You were slain” (5:9). AH, when Christ undertook to be her mediator, this was the extreme point to which His pledge to be her substitute could carry Him – to be slain (killed)!

Jesus is never more glorious than in His death. His substitutionary atonement is the culmination of His glory, as it was the very utmost depth of His shame. Beloved, we rejoice in our mediator because He died.

A thing that is redeemed belonged originally to the person who redeems it, and the redeemed of the Lord were always His. “Yours they were,” said Christ, “and You gave them to Me” (speaking to His Father in John 17:6). They always were God’s. You cannot go and redeem a thing that does not belong to you. You may buy it, but you cannot redeem it.

Now that which belonged originally to God became indebted through sin. We having sinned, came under the curse of the law. And though God still held to it that we were His, we were yet under this embargo: sin had a claim upon us.

Christ came and saw His own, and He knew that they were His own. He asked what there was to pay to redeem them, to restore His ownership. It was His heart’s blood, His life, Himself that was required. He paid the price and redeemed them, and we today sing, “By Your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and You have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.” (Revelation 5:9-10)

He has, by redeeming us, separated us to Himself and made us a holy people, bought with blood in a special sense out of all the rest of mankind. This redemption is the grounds for the distinction of God’s people: “By Your blood you ransomed people for God” (5:9)

God never wearies of the precious blood, nor will His people who know where their salvation lies. They do not, even in heaven, say that it is a dreadful word to mention. I heard a man the other day say of a certain minister, “OH! We want another minister, we are tired of this man always talking about the blood.” In the last great day, God will be tired of the man who made that speech!

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John 14:6

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Father, but by me.

Ephesians 2:8-9

For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, so no man should boast.

Acts 16:31

“Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”

Acts 4:12

“Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Galatians 3:28

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Joel 2:32, Acts 2:21 and Romans 10:13

everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

Hebrews 2:3

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

Romans 10:9 & 10

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

^{Acts 2:36}

Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made the same Jesus, whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

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