Great Things

[Revelation 5:7] Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne. [Revelation 5:8] Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. [Revelation 5:9] They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, [Revelation 5:10] and made us kings and priests to our God; and we will reign on the earth.” [Revelation 5:11] I looked, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands, [Revelation 5:12] saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!” [Revelation 5:13] I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!” [Revelation 5:14] The four living creatures said, “Amen!” Then the elders fell down and worshiped.

[Romans 8:33] Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies. [Romans 8:34] Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. [Romans 8:35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? [Romans 8:36] Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” [Romans 8:37] No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. [Romans 8:38] For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, [Romans 8:39] nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[1 Corinthians 15:52] in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. [1 Corinthians 15:53] For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. [1 Corinthians 15:54] But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” [1 Corinthians 15:55] “Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?” [1 Corinthians 15:56] The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. [1 Corinthians 15:57] But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. [1 Corinthians 15:58] Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

[Colossians 2:11] In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ, [Colossians 2:12] having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. [Colossians 2:13] You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, [Colossians 2:14] wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. [Colossians 2:15] Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. [Colossians 2:16] Let no one therefore judge you in eating or drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, [Colossians 2:17] which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

[Philippians 2:7] but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. [Philippians 2:8] And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross. [Philippians 2:9] Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name, [Philippians 2:10] that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, [Philippians 2:11] and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. [Philippians 2:12] So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. [Philippians 2:13] For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

[Lamentations 3:20] My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me. [Lamentations 3:21] This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope. [Lamentations 3:22] It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail. [Lamentations 3:23] They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. [Lamentations 3:24] “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.” [Lamentations 3:25] The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. [Lamentations 3:26] It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

[Hebrews 13:6] So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?” [Hebrews 13:7] Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith. [Hebrews 13:8] Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. [Hebrews 13:9] Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited. [Hebrews 13:10] We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

[Psalms 115:1] Not to us, LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake. [Psalms 115:2] Why should the nations say, “Where is their God, now?” [Psalms 115:3] But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases. [Psalms 115:4] Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. [Psalms 115:5] They have mouths, but they don’t speak. They have eyes, but they don’t see.

[Ephesians 3:18] may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth, [Ephesians 3:19] and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. [Ephesians 3:20] Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, [Ephesians 3:21] to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.