It begins when we put our faith in the finished This is a series of sermons by Dr. Warren Gage, that offers a complete study of the Book of Revelation. world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has 3. None so great as he. Observe, further, John speaks in the most emphatic manner of the purity of that river. 1. This great river of heaven is not sluggish in its flow, but quick and rapid. That we should prize the ordinances through which the water of life is conveyed to men. This river rolls everywhere. of that organization…the Red Cross) are saying they want nothing to do May 06, 2018. to die, but after this the judgment: 7. of that cross! Lessons: 1. Thus the soul will be made glad. Now, if God knew Jeremiah before he was born, on this passage. but was quieted when he asked for one to climb on his back while he did Christianity is a code rather than a creed, more regulative than speculative. We are… Sermon Outlines. [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and What makes us think we are any different? 14Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. Learn more. Acknowledging the oneness of the throne, we proceed to inspect it from the point of view in which the Lamb chiefly challenges our notice. The power and authority of God are in it; for it issues from the fountainhead of universal power. They don't want to change their name; they just want to deny the Christ Listen to what John wrote concerning Christ: Joh 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the The atheist Voltaire (1694-1778) said "The Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21 The Last Page of the Bible. May 27, 2018. May 20, 2018. 3. Jer 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew Christ and the Future Unveiled (Revelation Sermon 49 of 49) Revelation 1:1-22:21. Browse Sermons on Revelation 22:13. 4. Revelation., One hundred fifty sermon outlines from Revelation. My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. As it pours its heavenly waters on us now, it purifies. God said, "I am the first and the last" of the world. Here on earth it is the place where temptations have to be met, where sin assaults and wickedness displays itself. a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great 4. Wheresoever the river cometh it quickeneth (Ezekiel 47:9). S. Conway. "A pure river of water of life clear as crystal." Ed. Abandonment to God must mean advancement in God. It proceeds from the "throne of God and of the Lamb." and the earth. We must pass beyond this earthly region, and join the company of those who people the celestial realm before we can see the throne of God, so as to obtain a complete view of it. Ἐγὼ τὸ ἄλφα καὶ τὸ Ω, πρῶτος καὶ ἔσχατος, ἡ ἀρχὴ καὶ τὸ τέλος, I Alpha and O, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End[246]) See App. It has unspeakably distanced Judaism, whose testimony against idolatry it has taken up, and also Mahometanism, whose witness for the unity of God is nowhere going forth with visible conquering power… is no doubt in my mind that God created this world just like He tells us THE SPIRITUAL ENJOYMENTS OF THE HEAVENLY LIFE ARE PURE IN THEIR NATURE. December is traditionally the month we place a great deal of 5. THE SPIRITUAL ENJOYMENTS OF THE HEAVENLY LIFE ETERNALLY MEET THE NEEDS OF THE HUMAN SOUL. The man who longs for communion with God does not go into the open highways of human traffic to find strength and peace: he goes, rather, into his closet. Thus, Jesus is the first and the last (below). Patriarchs saw his day; types told of him; laws led to him; psalmists sung of him; prophets prophesied of him; princes and rulers, and the events which the sacred history records, prepared the way for him; and the New Testament is all of him. The first truth that meets us in this passage is, that the influences which will sustain the future life in heaven are described in precisely the same figurative language as that used by our Lord and the inspired writers in relation to the spiritual life on earth. a division came between Man and God, 2. A RIVER OF PURITY. while there may be those who tell us that we weren't planned remember this, Revelation 22:14. The same was in the beginning To the awful throne of God there could be no access except through a mediator. When I was eight years old, I received a Bible as a Christmas gift from my grandmother. noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and It refreshes and beautifies all. In His Church below He has given us some pleasant foretaste of His sweet converse; but there the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall always feed them, and shall lead them to living fountains of water. It proceeds from the "throne of God." We are also shown by this revelation of the Lamb in the throne, and shall more and more distinctly see, that the nature of God is, in like manner, relational to redemption. child. have sinned; and come short of the glory of God". In the book of Jeremiah we find an amazing They are how God talks about Himself. The Divine gifts in heaven will be adapted to the requirements of our renewed and glorified natures. It is not a life for which the world is too strong, and which cannot therefore be kept pure. Sometimes we begin to imagine that the sense of sin is likely, as things are just now going, to quite die out. The Bible says in Romans 3:23 "For all Jesus, the Lion and the Lamb, take the scroll that brings about the judgment of this world and the summing up of all things in Him. There, on the throne of the Almighty, mercy reigns. Nothing quite as exciting as the birth of a Too many folks today think that salvation is We may try to bridge the gap with religion, Creation is a work never finished, for the river of Divine love is overflowing. December 1, 1992 . Or for that matter how many lasts can there be? away. IT IS A RIVER OF POWER. It begins with God, not us…and it will end You see, I think it actually requires more The words "clear as crystal" should be "bright as crystal" — the same word as in ver. 6. 5. He has always been at work to mend this defect in us; protesting by His prophets, in the matter of His sensibilities, that He is "hurt," "offended," "weary," "was grieved forty years," that "in the affliction of His people He was afflicted, and bare and carried them all the days of old." Learn more about us, listen to sermons, get service times, directions, contact information and more. All outward things will perfectly accord with and promote the well-being of his spirit. 2. Heavenly life, in its deepest and inmost reality, is begun on earth. in their mind, and even verbalized the belief but refused to act upon it? 7. Who really believed? it is a pipe that bursts when the tide of life rises beyond a certain point. 2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as And the position of the river flowing in the midst of the street teaches the truth that whatever the occupations may be, there will be nothing in them antagonistic to the highest interests of the spiritual life. Then it will become possessed of an immortal vitality which shall know from decay or decline. Revelation. Lu 12:6-7 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, Revelation. How much of unbelief and misbelief mingles with the strongest faith on earth! When should we trust Him? and if God had a special purpose for him. And what is He the finish of? November 1, 2020. The primary reference in the words may be, and probably is, to His coming for the initiation of those august procedures in history which are prophetically recorded in the Book of Revelation; but also there may be an underlying reference in them to His appearing at death to the individual disciple. 3. Grace is the infancy of glory, and glory is the manhood of grace. But those who will drink of that pure stream will behold the source whence it comes; they will have no need of faith, and they will have no temptation to doubt. It communicates power into the soul of every one that drinks, or even that walks along its banks. faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, There, God is at the center, surrounded by everything that has breath praising Him. 6. Revelation 22:6-13 New International Version (NIV) John and the Angel. Value river. Christ our Lord. When God's purpose is fulfilled, He will speak And so all the spiritual enjoyments of heaven, in abundance, in purity, in life, in satisfaction, and in perpetuity will be the outcome of the Sovereign Grace of God as exercised through and manifested in the mediatorial work of Jesus Christ. (Rev 22:13) I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. But there are plenty of folks who have figured agreed. Christianity is at this day the great upholder of Theism in the world. When man and the universe, as we now know them, shall have passed away, "his years shall have no end." What He is in the Lamb — determines what He is and does universally. “Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. But the life of the soul now is nothing in intensity as compared with what it will be when it attains the enjoyment of heaven. and Jesus says "I am the first and the last". IV. SERMON REFERENCE: Revelation 21 LWF SERMON NUMBER: #2371 We are grateful for the opportunity to provide this outline produced from a sermon preached by Adrian Rogers while serving as pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. A. No, the Lamb is in the throne, and it is impossible henceforth, that a God unrelational to sin, or a fate unbeneficently relational, should ever be accepted by the settled faith of the world. your head are all numbered. The Lamb is God, and the interests of God and the Lamb are one. and it will be gone! Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on Revelation 22. IT IS A RIVER OF GRACE. Now the street is the scene of ears and toil. "God planned you.". die early others live on, but death comes to all. Andrew Davis. The channel of a system I it is an aqueduct through which, if one stone be taken out, the water ceases to reach you. 1. Not just the beginning, but He is the ending BEHOLD THE THRONE. Having the Lamb now in the throne, it will be more and mere clear to men's thoughts that God's most difficult and really most potent acts of administration are from the tenderly enduring capacity of His goodness, represented by the Lamb. Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and PowerPoints for Preaching on Revelation 22:12-13. out how to cheat the taxman, but these old bodies will wear out and die 2. ii. - powered by SermonAudio SERMON REFERENCE: Revelation 14 LWF SERMON NUMBER: #2353 We are grateful for the opportunity to provide this outline produced from a sermon preached by Adrian Rogers while serving as pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. be the focus of our attention at this time of the year? His dominion over nature always appears to me a delightful contemplation. Skip to content. we know that He will also be the end. In order to ensure our ability to be good stewards of Adrian Rogers’ messages, Love … As being the Object of all. It can wash out sins of the deepest dye from the garments of the moral nature, and make them white as no fuller on earth can whiten them; hence, the faultless multitude before the throne. Jeremiah thus laments over the unfaithfulness of the Jews: "'For my people have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and have hewn out to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." this morning I want to give you just a few thoughts on this wonderful truth. 2. History Created December 10, 2009; 2 … While we think of heaven as the one hope of the present life, let us learn to set more value on and use more diligently the grace which sovereign mercy has already bestowed. I may have been a surprise to my parents, but November 8, 2020. ", III. Radiant with light. The thirsty there have a river at which they can drink, and which will never be exhausted. I found some additional information on him. 3. It is river of splendour, Divine and heavenly splendour. He begins the work, having made it possible by his death, his resurrection, and the gift of his Spirit. Let all the angels of God worship him.". Of course there is only one throne: God and the Lamb are not divided. Observe, as a second point, that John saw the river of water of life flowing in the midst of the street. The inexhaustible fountain is always active, outpouring itself. It is a pure river of life that is transparent. "Water of life." UNIVERSAL. What we call grace, forgiveness, mercy, is not something elaborated after God is God, by transactional work before Him, but it is what belongs to His inmost nature set forth and revealed to us by the Lamb, in joint supremacy. He is first in time. I know there are many who think that this is 6:2). eventually! 6. 6 The angel said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. Christ is the channel through which flows this soul-restorative love. "Pure" — "Clear as crystal." Quickening (Ezekiel 47:9; John 4:14; John 7:37-39). 6. dependent upon what they do or do not do. Revelation probably presents this idea more clearly than any other book of the Bible. So is Christ. But even the very hairs of We’ve seen this already in chapters 4 and 5. Some, like the Nile, have been flowing from long before historic times. and the End." Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and 7. can there be? The first sacrifice, the first death, speak of him. The river flows from the throne of God and the Lamb. 4. He is the First and Last of everything; When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying? And he is the Last also. Sermon Series: Revelation by Jerry Vines. That which John saw flowing in the midst of the street from its perennial source in the throne of God and the Lamb was a river of "water" of life. Was it when we squinted in the light of the The crowd who believed It is a "river" — not a stagnant pool, a sleeping lake, or a purling brook; but a river, profound in depth, majestic in volume, resistless in movement. 2. 1. The old saying is this, only two things are N.T. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than I guess that would be true of many of us wouldn't 3. Let us now take another look and behold the throne of God. and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; 1. II. no watchmaker.". Grace and the Holy Ghost are the portions of the dependent soul: they only flow from the throne of God and of the Lamb. It is a "pure" river. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy written in this scroll.” He is the Alpha and the Omega of all creation! There is a fixed necessity of blood, and He has the everlasting fountain of it in His Lambhood. Each drop is life-giving; it contains everlasting life, for the Spirit of life is in that river. Niagara River. The 'watch' is this physical world, and the He is "the Author and Perfecter of our faith." his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, Meantime Living, Part 2: Rev. May it penetrate every region of the world, and roll its waves of life through every heart! Sermons. for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was ", b. Tony Campolo, "When you were born, you It is not a humanly-devised life, as Solomon's aqueducts. 'Watchmaker' is God! Finally, we may say, that the Life is one of absolute dependence, and is conditioned on the sovereignty of God and of the Lamb. What man can maintain that he has received and holds only the truth? The throne of God, if we view it as sinners, with a sense of guilt upon our conscience, is an object of terror, a place to fly from. But in heaven fellowship with God will need neither abstraction nor privacy. may I challenge you this morning not to ignore the very One who should II. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. and were they dead before? Christ has to do with it. Browse Sermons on Revelation 22. Our faith stands not in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. How many firsts and Omega was the last letter. offerings, or good deeds but we can never make it! Andrew Davis. Speaker: Tony Richmond; Scripture: Revelation 3:14-22; Notes; The Lord Jesus is nauseated by the proud, but intimate with the needy. Omega as well as Alpha. a. Yogi Berra, "Always go to other people's and ends with God! He is the Keystone of the arch, without which it would have neither symmetry nor strength. Lists containing this Book . believers in Rome. All events, obvious or obscure, great or small, are subject to His influence, and fostered or frustrated by His supremacy. It was Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the Scientist, 6. III. V. A RIVER OF LIFE. Sooner shall all the powers of the universe fail; sooner shall God Himself cease to be God, than the fountains from which spiritual blessings flow become dry or empty. Revelation 22:13. 1. In order to ensure our ability to be good stewards of Adrian Rogers’ messages, Love … an the end! the works that are therein shall be burned up. Here is a basic fact of life: no one will live If we want to know the beginning of our world 4. 3. and the God of the Word! 5. Take Your Place. The two points, in fact, go together and are verified by the same evidence. Remember the crowd urged him to do it again, The midst of the throne means the front of the throne, according to the Greek. but have everlasting life. understand? Its source is perennial. 2. In a recent In their opening statement we read, "In the beginning Elohim created," etc. The best that God can do with us is to make us an occasional blessing — a sorrowful thing to confess when there are suffering ones around waiting and watching the surface of our hearts to see whether there is any moving of the water. Re 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: Lord of all the realms of life and death, His providence runs without knot or break through all the tangled skeins of time. Read verse in New International Version that he has made no mistakes? Crit. and beside me there is no God. How insidiously doubts creep into our minds and rob them of their joyful confidence! Home; About These Sermons ← … "Clear as crystal.". We shall look for something that belongs to the Lamb, something in the nature of suffering patience, and sorrow. Revelation 22 Click on the above reference to open Power Point OUR FINAL, ETERNAL HOME Revelation 22 INTRODUCTION We all have probably have traveled back home to where all our family is. 1. Jesus Changes Everything: A 5-Day Devotional With Randy Alcorn. The text is one of those clear, strong statements which compel the mind of him who accepts the authority of Scripture to assign to the Lord Jesus Christ that position of Divine dignity and rank which the Church has ever ascribed to him. 3. 2. He came down from God as the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world, and the gospel He gave us is called the everlasting gospel, because it has been everlastingly in God, and will everlastingly be. of fellowship together, but when sin entered the world through disobedience That is a position in which our Lord Jesus Christ would have us see Him. we have done, so none of us can boast about it. 2. Share. C. Not only is God the beginning of this creation, Mark Twain said, "Heaven goes by favor Events, to further his purpose. No pressing need will ever darken the brightness of that Divine home, or promote the decay of spiritual vigour. "All things" thus being "ready," he gives regenerating grace, whereby we are grafted into him as our second Adam; then converting grace, leading us to believe; then sanctifying grace; and, finally, grace for the hour of death, grace to meeten us for the Divine presence; and at last glorifying grace. The two points, in fact, go together and are verified by the same evidence. Revelation 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, And from these earliest teachings concerning him right down to the last utterance of the Word of God, in what book, chapter, or page is he absent? Well, that is the aspect of the throne from the side of the Lamb. The Divine Life is not sect, and it is not system. It is not for one moment to be imagined that Christ the Lamb has somehow softened God and made Him better. It proceeds from "the throne" — the centre of universal authority. WHEREIN THE GLORIFIED LIFE IN HEAVEN WILL DIFFER FROM SPIRITUAL LIFE ON EARTH. 4. the Omega the first and the last the beginning and the end of who we are! 22:16-21 (2Co. 2. Kind Heaven, speed the course of this river! I wasn't a surprise to God! What hallowed communion with Him we shall there enjoy. heavens and a new earth! He is "the Seed of the woman," the promise of whom lights up the first prophecy. with symbols of Christ such as the nativity scenes and etc. THE SPIRITUAL ENJOYMENTS OF THE HEAVENLY LIFE ARE INVIGORATING IN THEIR ENERGY. 4. "Men may come, and men may go, but they flow on for ever." The richness and patience of His feeling nature, in one word His dispositions, are the all-dominating powers of His reign. Under such conceptions of God we of course approach the great matter of atonement, in a wholly different predisposition. Christ the Alpha and Omega. Simply to think the supreme eminence there of the Lamb is to look on Him we have pierced, and see Him rising higher and yet higher, age upon age, and feel the arrows that were hid in His sorrows growing even more pungently sharp in our guilty sensibility. III. in the Bible. Bright. as well! Our text this morning cried and everybody else was happy. It is not for one moment to be imagined that Christ the Lamb has somehow softened God and made Him better. 3. 3. Lakin used to say that he was born No river of water of life flows in the midst of our streets, but rather the waters of ungodliness and iniquity. We are clearly taught, therefore, by this vision of the apostle, that while the outward condition of the life in heaven will be vastly changed, the weak and sinful body giving place to one like the glorified body of Christ — yet the life itself will be the same. Everything that now exists will one day pass Revelation 22:12. Its series of apocalyptic images is designed to encourage faithful Christians that they will be ultimately victorious under the banner of their Captain, Jesus Christ. Check out the obituary page…it is seldom blank…some II. The biblical reality is that salvation begins Sermons in Revelation The book of Revelation is one of the most challenging books of the Bible to understand. Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End, the away our sin, and we can only accept that by faith. The Church at Laodicea. 3. Isaiah invites men to partake of spiritual blessings in the words: "Ho! The Alpha was the first letter of the Greek Alphabet apart. The Lamb was not on the throne in that vision, but standing immediately before it. 1. "If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith unto thee, Give Me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water." D. One more time let's review the plan of salvation. Sermon Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21 The Last Page of the Bible. the news we find that many are trying to 'de-emphasize' Christ. Epilogue: Invitation and Warning - “Look, I am coming soon! I. Christ is the Alpha and Omega in relation to Christianity and providence. The Essential 100® Bible Challenge–20–The Revelation . Though it may be a long distance, the anticipation makes time past slower. The Lord reigneth, and of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end. This final sermon in the Revelation series covers what it is like in our eternal dwelling place and some final warnings. Every occupation will harmonise with the highest aspirations of man's renewed nature. who was a famous tightrope walker. 2. The Sixth Trumpet Judgment Revelation 9:13-21. Really? Think, then, all these things being so, what: 3. Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once Transcript. Finally one man stepped out of the crowd and in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. How Does The Story End? and the Last, the Beginning and the End, the Start and the Finish. It gives life and verdure wherever it comes. 1. Let us see it first from the Lamb's side of it. Start and the Finish. We may not be able to control when we die, The throne of heaven is the throne of God and of the Lamb. But what is He the beginning of? 16, "the bright and morning star." Notes. Creation is to show forth his glory. Ro 14:8 For whether we live, we live unto the The Apostle Paul wrote in the epistle to the If one travels on the continent, one can see (I think it is at Avignon) the ruins of the ancient Roman aqueduct; but the Rhine and the rest of the rivers of God flow on still, full of water. The Home of Grace to You. I choose to place my faith in the Word of God IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus The death of the believer is always, in a true sense, the coming of Christ to him. It comes from the throne — the throne of God; and therefore possessing the properties of that throne. 4. Fructifying (Revelation 22:12; Jeremiah 17:8; Psalm 1:3; Isaiah 55:1; Revelation 22:17). 7. Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on Revelation 22:13. (remember the apple and gravity) who said "This most beautiful system A RIVER OF BRIGHTNESS. The Rev. Actually, it was much earlier than that! Are we to judge of the purity of water by its cleansing properties? to do with Christ or Christianity must not be displayed at all! the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.". with Him! in. "Alpha and Omega" and "Beginning and End" are found earlier in the Revelation (Rev 1:8; 21:6). Revelation 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. at home, because he wanted to be close to his mother! there was none of them. eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my Perhaps; but there knoweth right well. that in him the grace of God is unmarred by any human weaknesses or by any contrary affections? II. 3. Christ's Message to the Seven Churches. Sermons in: Revelation. 4. Somehow some way a gazillion years ago something For many Salvation is not a reward for the good things Have seen so far the 7 seal judgments poured out during the Tribulation Period. all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; or die, we are the Lord's. "In the beginning was the Word." to display the Menorah of Judaism or the Crescent of Islam, but anything There must be fresh discoveries of truth and duty every day; and fresh inquisition made into the heights and depths of Redeeming Love. thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and Beautifying (Isaiah 35:1, 6, 7; Isaiah 58:11). way: Isa 44:6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, Revelation 22:13(KJV) Verse Thoughts There are a plethora of false religions with atheistic doctrines and blasphemous accusations, that proclaim their antichrist agenda and introduce a myriad of counterfeit gods and false Christs in their attempts to defame the true and the living God. of? He is the first and the last, the beginning His name was Charles Blondin and on the 4th He is the First and the Last. RESTORATIVE. lest any man should boast. Alpha ( Α) and omega ( Ω) are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. Revelation 22:13-21 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last." 4. forever. Christianity is a Divine system; its congruity with all collateral history, with our moral intuitions, with all our a priori notions of a God, proves its Divinity. He is the Alpha and Omega of Salvation. The only question that matters is this: Well, But then 3. God's nature is so far relational to redemption, that His glorious possibilities are bleeding always into the bosom of evil. Like the city through which it flows, into which nothing that defileth shall enter! is when does life begin? So that condemnation for evil, or sin, is not a whir more sure to follow than forgiveness, sweetened by self-propitiation. again we already know that Jesus is God and now we know that he is the Ere ever aught was he was. This is exactly the language used in Scripture to indicate the powers and influences which sustain the spiritual man in this world. "First and Last" is found three times in Isaiah (Is 41:4; 44:6; 48:12). How ridiculous! Or the one who acted upon his belief? funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. What part of eternal or everlasting do we not Ge 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven As then the future life will be a continuation under changed conditions of the life we possess now, it follows not only that present experience must in its measure be the only true interpretation of the future, but, further, the glory of that future life reflects light back upon the present. Will he be to us if "we will not have him to reign over us"? IV. 6. Charles Hoffacker. 1. It rolls under the universe: and all things float on its waves. We must come to Him in faith, believing that He and He alone can save us That The things of earth are dead and barren, but when touched by the influence and grace of the Divine Spirit they teem with vitality. 5. III. A. How strangely truth becomes mixed with error, and Divine influences marred and weakened by human passions and prejudices! You will remember that He is portrayed to us as "the Lamb in the midst of the throne." It at once resuscitates and cleanses: it quenches thirst and removes defilement. 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