Dearly beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, it is with deep hesitancy that I proceed to say anything on the text we’ve just read. This passage is glorious! I certainly can neither add to what John said, nor explain in exhaustive detail what he meant. The true reality of Heaven’s glory has never entered the human imagination. But what I can do is draw some connections. I can tell you about the OT allusions that echo through these verses. I can remind you of what we’ve seen as we’ve looked at the Bible’s Big Picture for the past three months. And I can promise you that the glorious consummation of dwelling with God, in His house forever, will be far better than everything this world has to offer. I will not try to exhaustively exposit the text we’ve just read. That would take us weeks. But I will skate over its surface and show you how John’s final visions show us that we will dwell with God. Indeed, because God will consummately dwell with us, John says, we must strive to overcome sin! That, my friends, is the note on which the Bible closes. That is yet another summary of its Big Picture. Remember how we saw that the Bible could be summarized as “Kill the dragon, get the girl”? Or the alternative summary, “The Bible is the story of God bringing His people to dwell in His presence”? Both of those summaries find their fulfillment in our text this morning. Here we see God in and through Christ bringing His people — His bride — to dwell with Him forever.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
