Revelation Chapter 17 is one of the most important Chapters in the book of Revelation I will explain to you why Revelation 17 is the last Chapter of the Bible in which the enemy still has attack strength against the people of God if you continue reading Revelation after Chapter 17 you will notice that after Chapter 17 the enemy is presented only having defeats and in the end the people of God having complete and definitive victory so Chapter 17 my brothers is a Milestone in the Bible because it is the final chapter of the war or the final chapter in which the enemy still attacks, wounds and persecutes the people of God afterwards As I said, only defeats for example Chapter 18 you already start reading the announcement of the fall of Babylon in chapter 18 still The Lament of the admirers of Babylon the complete and definitive ruin of Babylon chapter 19 of Revelation jubilation in heaven Christ conquers the beast and the false prophet Chapter 20 Satan is imprisoned for 1000 years still in the chapter 20 Satan is released and finally defeated and in chapter 21 and 22 the New Heaven and the new Earth then chapter 17 everything that you read throughout the Bible talking about the war between good and evil of satan attacking and persecuting the people of God of satan with Rage to persecute and kill the people of God ends in chapter 17 and we have to Praise God for that because chapter 17 is the biblical proof or the confidence that God gives us that evil every evil that attacks us will come to an end every evil that hurts us will come to an end but still in chapter 17 the enemy has strength and power to harshly attack the people of God and it is a hard and heavy chapter one of the Chapters perhaps most complex and profound in the entire book of apocalypse because the enemy with all his Fury unites with the powers of evil to persecute the people of God to shed the blood of the People of God to trample on the law of God to hurt the saints of the Lord has one of the Verses in this chapter that you will read that Satan will come with so much fury that the Bible says he will get drunk with the blood of the Saints is a way for the Bible to say how fierce the attack of the end will be with how much fury he will come against the people of God but then there is a beautiful thing right in the middle of this chapter which is verse 14 and verse 14 says this way they will fight against what it says in your Bible they will fight against the lamb so you have to stop and ask a question to the biblical text and so you should read the Bible you should read the Bible asking questions to the biblical text you can't just read the biblical text and say like that, I've already fulfilled my obligation to read the Bible today the most profound way to read the Bible is to ask questions to the biblical text because these questions will help you meditate and understand what the biblical text wants to say to your heart so if you read 13 chapter 13 Verses of Chapter 17 talking about Satan fighting against the people of God attacking the people of God persecuting the people of God shedding the blood of the People of God there in verse 14 you say they will fight against the lamb At least you have to ask a question then you have to say wait if I have read all the verses of Chapter 17 so far and it only talks about Satan attacking the people of God at no point does it talk about him persecuting attacking the lamb Why does the chapter in verse 14 of Chapter 17 say that he will fight against the lamb if the entire Chapter talks about him persecuting the people of God and here there is already a profound truth for our lives my brothers Revelation is saying that every time Satan Rises Up To persecute you in truth first he has to go through the Lamb no attack from satan against your marriage no attack from satan against your family against your children against your health against your Finances they can reach you without first going through the Lamb so when the Bible says they will fight against the lamb Even though the chapter is talking about him fighting against the saints of God against the people of God is because Revelation wants you to understand that you will never shed a tear that you will never be hurt without first the lamb feeling that tear and knowing that you shed tears because every time he rises up to persecute God's people he is actually trying to hurt the lamb Satan's Origin plan was never to attack God's people Satan's original plan was to attack Jesus Christ to take away the throne of Jesus and put himself in Jesus' place in heaven that was the original plan and he even tried that the Bible says that he had the boldness Revelation 12 says that he had the boldness to fight against Jesus and his angels imagine the boldness of a created being fighting and warring against the but Revelation says that he was expelled from heaven when he was expelled from heaven he understood that he had no possibility of touching Jesus or hurting Jesus but he realized a couple that had been raised and he understood the extent of the love that Jesus had for this couple and he realized that if he hurt this couple it was the only way he had to hurt Jesus Christ so every time he hurts your life every time he hurts your marriage every time he hurts your family is the intention he has since the Garden of Eden to attack Jesus Christ the parents who are here know what I'm saying I have two children talk bad about me criticize me attack me hit me but please don't touch my children Satan understood this but in an infinitely deeper way about God's love for us so every time he stands up against your life he realized that it was the only way he would have to attack Jesus Christ you know why Jesus Christ went to the cross of Calvary it's not because Jesus Christ or because Satan had the strength to take him to the cross of Calvary it's because he discovered God's love is so great for us that Jesus Christ would voluntarily go to the cross of Calvary to provide a solution for our sin he realized that the only way to hurting the lamb was hurting the children painful But there is another truth here that you and I need to understand see every time Satan leads us to sin he is not worried about our life if Satan can make a man commit adultery if Satan can make a woman commit adultery he is not worried about you with your wife with your husband with your children or with the church he understood that when he leads us into sin he is leading us to hurt the lamb hurt Lamb shame the lamb so he doesn't care about your marriage he doesn't care about your children, what he really wants is to hurt and shame the lamb that was wounded on the cross but is shamed again when he manages to do what is his will and not God's will in our lives . and hurt people who have nothing to do with it and who didn't deserve to go through that is what the enemy's intention is to make me fall so that the lamb is hurt every time the people that the lamb loves are hurt then the text says they will fight look at the biblical text they will fight against the lamb then what does it say Then they will fight against the lamb and the lamb what do you have to say amen hallelujah God be praised my brothers you understood well what you just read the lamb Will win the the lamb Will win my brothers I usually say that if the Apocalypse ended Then we would have enough to follow the Christian life if the last Verse of the Apocalypse were like this they will fight against the lamb and the lamb Will win Point is over Revelation we will have enough to follow my brothers the lamb Will win the lamb Will the cemetery the lamb Will win the divorce the lamb Will win the disease the lamb Will win the family problems the lamb Will the lamb win Will win and We had to put this in our heads every day, I'm not going to give up now because the lamb will win. Maybe you've already heard the story of a little boy who was reading a comic book, a comic book, and when he was reading it, it was the superhero he liked the most and he was reading it, and in this particular story, the superhero only caught the villain of the story, he only hit the superhero, he only attacked the superhero, he almost killed the superhero, and the little boy started getting uncomfortable, he grabbed his little finger and put it in the middle of the comic and went.
there for the last page and when he read the last page of the comic book he saw that finally at the end of the story the villain was defeated and the The hero won, he smiled, he went back to where his finger was marked in the middle of the comic book, he looked closely at the villain's face in the comic book and said, you don't know what I know in the end, you will be defeated, do you know what Revelation 171 is? It will win, it is difficult, I have been going through very difficult times in my marriage with my children but I will not give up because the lamb will win in the name of biblical authority, do not give up because Revelation 14 is guaranteeing you the lamb will win now my brothers when we read the lamb will win we have to read exactly what it says there it is the lamb who will win which means shepherd I will explain to you when the Bible says that the lamb will win it is saying that the Victory is not yours it is saying that the final Victory of salvation It's not because of what you do, the victory belongs to the lamb, it's not mine, when Jesus Christ returns, the angels will place a golden crown on our head, that crown is the guarantee and the certainty that we are saved for all eternity, my brothers, when the Angel places the golden crown on your head, no one, absolutely none of the saved, will think like that, oh, I won because I kept the Sabbath, I received this crown because I returned tithes, no, I won because I delivered food baskets on earth, I won because I was a pastor or because I was a church leader, no. no one when the crown is placed on your head and you understand that you are saved for all eternity all the saved will say The Lamb has won the victory belongs to the lamb and the Christian life only has meaning if you understand that Victory is not what you do salvation my brothers is something so far from our possibility that unless the lamb won on the cross of Calvary we would never win no matter how many Sabbaths we keep no matter how much tithe we return no matter how long we work in the church victory eternal life is only possible because of the victory of the lamb but do you know what the text continues saying they will fight against the lamb and the lamb Will they win because he is the lord of lords and king of kings and they will win because what the biblical text says look at the biblical text and help me they will fight against the lamb and the lamb will win because he is the lord of lords and king of kings and they will also win that is the word Hallelujah and they will win whose victory my brothers the victory of the lamb but the text he is saying that the so-called elect and faithful who are with him will also overcome with the lamb some versions say that they walk with the lamb other versions say that they remain with the lamb So who will overcome the lamb but the lamb has decided not to win alone he will share his victory with us there is a beautiful quote from Helen White that says so no one should be apprehensive about what God thinks of you You must be safe in what God thinks of Christ your substitute Look what a beautiful thing no one should be apprehensive about what God thinks of you you must be confident in what God thinks of Jesus Christ who is his substitute So who will win It is the Lamb but the lamb decided to share his victory with us that is why the text says and those who walk with the lamb will also win, those who remain with the lamb or those who believe in the Lamb what you have to understand this morning is When will we understand that victory belongs to those who have learned to walk with the lamb When will we understand that victory in the Christian life does not depend on what I do Christian Victory Depends on what Christ did in cross of Calvary and that if I do not learn to walk with the lamb I will not have victories that the victory of the Christian life is not how much I strive the victory of the Christian life is not how much I achieve the victory of the Christian life is who I walk with and who I know a few years ago I liked and still really like listening to the sermons of a now deceased pastor called Billy Gran who for a period was known as the most influential Pastor on the planet at one point Billygran was invited to give an interview on a program of American television that he was, it was a delicate interview because the interviewer had the gift of asking challenging questions that left the interviewee exposed and against the wall and bigan was invited he accepted the invitation and one of the questions the interviewer asked was like this biligran do you have a sin that you fall into that sin and that when you fall into that sin and that when you fall you are embarrassed see it was a delicate question biligran was at that moment the best known pastor on the planet and if he said no you have no sin everyone would say what It's a lie Those who have no sin on the other hand if he said I have he already knew what the next question would be What was this sin and quickly Bigr said so I have a sin I have a sin that I fall into and when I fall I feel very ashamed which is the sin of starting the day without having had an intimate and wonderful encounter with Jesus Christ my brothers This is the sin the sin Victory belongs to those who think they are with the Lamb walk with the Lamb and remain with the Lamb if a person at the end of the day commits a sin they cannot say so oh I was fine at the end of the day I fell into Sin she has to say like this I fell into Sin at the beginning of the day because I was not in the presence of Jesus because I did not walk with the Lamb today and any fall throughout the day is the consequence of the fall at the beginning of the day you do not fall at the end of the day if you remain on your knees in the presence of Jesus at the beginning of the day learn to walk with him then Victory is not what you strive for and achieve victory is learning to walk with the lamb every day and the question you have to answer for yourself today When will I learn this when will I learn to not let my family leave the house without family worship When will I learn to never start the day again without going to the presence of God and spending time with the Bible and prayer When will I learn that if I want to have a victorious Christian life I cannot give 5 hours a day to social media and 10 minutes to prayer something is wrong it is disproportionate keep even the meat that you don't eat the victory of the Lamb and the lamb will give this victory to whoever learns to walk with it I praise God because despite the struggles of the Challenges trips I have put all my strength into learning to walk with the lamb to spend time with him these days God gave me a lesson and caught my attention I have an Instagram that I use only for church things you won't see travel photos you won't see photos of my family only church things of preaching but Instagram sent me a notification saying that I I was spending 40 minutes a day on Instagram and I wasn't spending 40 minutes a day praying and God told me something is wrong here how do you have more time for Instagram than for prayer and God told me if you don't put this in order if you don't learn to walk with me more than you are walking with Instagram you will get stuck in the Christian life because Victory is not the fact that you are a Pastor, victory is you learning to walk with the Lamb I praise God because there are hard times with falls and tears I have learned I need to walk with the lamb I need to teach this to my children I was traveling one day and my daughter had just been born and I was thanking God for my daughter's life for the blessing of being a father and I was declaring blessings for my daughter's life Lord I want her to be a missionary I want her to serve you I want her to know you more than I know you you know when the Holy Spirit approaches I felt the Holy Spirit approaching and saying like this is beautiful but nothing like you You're asking, it's going to happen PR your daughter I got scared and that same voice told me your house doesn't have family worship and a house that doesn't have family worship in which God is not introduced to the children everything you ask for your son is beautiful but they're just words you want your daughter to know me She introduces me every day I came home with that strong in my heart and told my wife never in this house again let's stop having family worship and my dream my dream was one day when my children would leave home even without their father being around to send them their lessons studying the Bible praying that they would already be so used to seeking God And last year and this year my children left home for boarding school if you touch me I still cry I'm still in complete sense but I call my children's PR and say like this daughter and then how are you son how are you I have the joy of hearing them say Dad, we spent 15 years at home worshiping every day, we're not going to stop seeking God, now I told them, look, I don't have an inheritance to leave you, but if I leave the legacy of teaching you to learn to walk with the lamb, I'm leaving everything you need most.
When will we learn that walking with the lamb every day, that having an intimate encounter with Jesus every day, that not letting our family leave the house without family worship is what will give us victory, you know, on the day we does not seek God And even so, we long for salvation we are saying that today I will win Today I will win because I will do everything right Today I will win because I keep the Sabbath because I am a pastor because I have positions in the church and Revelation 17 is saying whoever wins is the lamb and you know who will win also those who have learned to walk with the lamb I am staying in a hotel near the Central Church of Vitória and this morning I went into the presence of God once again I studied the Bible and I felt God coming into that room and talking to me through the Bible I am studying very slowly the book of Philippians verse by verse reading it very slowly I spent time in prayer I have a lot of difficulty concentrating on prayer so I write my prayers I have several notebooks that I write in and this morning I wrote some sheets there Talking to God opening my heart and I felt God forgiving me I felt God renewing his presence in my life I am studying a book called chosen messages Volume 2 extraordinary spoke deeply to my heart and today I felt in that hotel room that I am in the presence of God renewing the Holy Spirit in my life embracing me and forgiving me it was wonderful but you know what I'm going to do tomorrow morning the same thing you know what I'm going to do Monday morning the same because today's herd will melt today I have to go back and get it again tomorrow and you know why I'm really tired when traveling but I don't start the day without seeking God it's not because I had to preach to you today it's not because I'm a pastor I'll explain to you why I've been seeking God every days my brothers because one day I believe that very soon a cloud will appear in the sky this cloud will initially be the size of a man's hand and it will start to grow at some point we will see this cloud surrounded by thousands and thousands and thousands of angels and in the middle of this cloud there will be a Throne sitting on that Throne there will be Jesus and from the cloud Jesus Christ will say with his powerful voice Awaken all of you who sleep in the dust of the earth and the voice of Jesus so powerful and wonderful will enter the tombs and those who died Believing in Jesus Christ they will awaken and the cemetery which today is the saddest place on the planet will become the happiest place the place of reunion I don't know where I will be But I believe that at that moment the angel will make me meet my mother and when the dead are resurrected who believed in Christ and the saved who have not passed through death are ready we will be taken to the cloud where Jesus is and in that cloud we will receive the golden crown and we will receive the Harp and we will take a journey from that cloud to the house of God Where we are going to spend the millennium Paul says it is the third heaven and we are going to the house of God that Revelation 21 and 22 describes in detail and the Bible says that this city we are going to live in has the gate of a pearl just imagine the beauty and it will be closed at that moment the whole crowd of saved people will stand in front of the door of the renewed Eden And Jesus will stand in front of the closed door of Eden and we will see in the middle of the crowd And I want to be there holding the hand of gace glend and Samuel and we will see in the middle of the crowd my brothers a man taller than all the men and a woman taller than all the women we will understand that Adam and Eve are our first parents and Jesus will make a sign for Adam to come and Adam will begin to walk through the crowd And Jesus will open his arms to embrace Adam as a hug for all humanity of the saved and when Adam stands in front of Jesus Jesus will have his arms open and Adam will see through first time some Marks on the Hand of Jesus Adam touched those hands those hands formed the doll to form Adam Jesus worshiped continuously with Adam In Eden but at that moment Jesus had not died on the cross yet and Adam did not see these marks because they were not there yet when Jesus Christ opened his arms and Adam saw for the first time the marks on Jesus' hand He will understand that those sheep that he killed when he sinned were the symbol of Jesus that at some point in the history of humanity Jesus Christ came to earth and suffered infinitely more than what those sheep he killed suffered and at that moment my brothers Adam will not have the courage to embrace Jesus he will kneel at the feet of Christ He will take off the crown he will place it on Jesus' feet and he will say worthy worthy worthy is the lamb that was killed and revived Jesus will bend down he will lift Adam he will put the crown back on Adam's head and he will turn Adam to the whole crowd of saved people and he will say at that moment my brothers what I most dream of hearing Jesus saying he will say your conflict it is finished, come Blessed by my father and inherit the Kingdom that has been prepared for you since the foundation of time my brothers what I dream of most in my life to hear is Jesus saying your conflict is finished when he said that is it I will understand that I will never again have to talk to couples who are wanting divorce never again will anyone call me to say pastor you can come and have a funeral service never again will Satan attack me and try to take me down and keep me away from God never again will I be unsure of how long the people I love will live when Jesus Christ says your conflict is over you will understand it is over salvation is beginning and with this hand marked by nails Jesus will open the pearly gate of heaven and he and Adam in front will guide the multitude of the saved we will enter the golden gate at the Pearly gate we will walk through the streets of gold and we will be led to the tree of life and at the Tree of Life we will eat the fruits of the Tree of Life men will at that moment grow to the stature of Adam women will grow to the stature of EVE you already you will be completely happy but at some point Jesus Christ the same one you saw in the cloud the same one you saw at the gate of heaven he will start walking among the people and at some point you will think is he coming to talk to me? Whatever it is, it will be good but in my mind the last tear he will wipe away is that pain you went through on earth that he never explained to you When my mother passed away it was the year of my wedding she was organizing everything it was my second year of ministry she was more the district pastor than me I was 21 years old and God comforted me God helped me but God never explained it to me at that moment and when I wipe my eyes I will say praise be to God because it happened the way that happened and at that moment he will hug me his arms will wrap around me and he will say welcome to eternity so let me explain to you why early in the morning I sought God, it's not because I'm a pastor and it's not because I had to preach to you, it's because I don't want to lose that hug, it's because I already understand that Victory isn't because I'm a pastor, because I keep the Sabbath, it's because I learned to walk with the Lamb like you, not every day I feel like praying, nor every day I want to read the Bible but every day I want to hug Jesus personally and it is the deep desire for this hug that makes me feel the presence of God every day and learn to walk with the lamb Because for me it is clear that Victory is not mine, the victory of the lamb and will be victorious Also those who learned to walk with the lamb one day I was preaching this sermon and a young woman was watching she had gone through very difficult times she had a permanent illness and what led her to that permanent illness was a very deep pain of various physical emotional aspects and she didn't see any sense she said this but it doesn't make sense at the beginning of my youth at the beginning of my marriage at the beginning of my life I have to stay in this situation people have to take me it doesn't make sense nothing makes sense and her parents insisted look Let's go to church today and she went and I preached this sermon and on the way out she said pastor I wanted to talk to you and she told me pastor nothing still makes sense I don't know why I'm in this situation I don't know why I went through what I went through but today I decided I'm not going Losing this hug may not have meaning here, maybe one day there it will make me understand the meaning but for me I no longer want to have meaning I no longer want to understand what happened to me what I want is to embrace Jesus Christ I will no longer lose this hug today I have decided I will walk with the lamb because I do not want to lose the shepherd's embrace and how do I know that I will be one of those victorious with the lamb the biblical text says this is how they will fight against the lamb and the lamb will win because he is the lord of lords and king of kings and the so-called bed and faithful who walk with the lamb will also overcome So the bio text is saying this way you want to know if you are one of the victors the victors will have three characteristics called the elect and what faithful called my brothers is what Christ did on the cross of Calvary when he said thus It is Finished he is making a Universal call from the first man and woman to the last man and woman were called to salvation all were called so salvation we do not believe as the Adventist Church that belongs to the Adventist church in reverse We believe that the people of God are greater outside the Adventist church than within the Adventist church because God's call is not for a church or for a nation the call is universal pastor and because although everyone is called not everyone will be saved here comes the second word elected elected is the personal acceptance of the call we studied this in this week's ba school lesson God has no choice to say you are salt you are lost not the election is the personal response of those who understood what went through on the cross of Calvary and say holy God I accept your call to salvation whoever accepts the call to salvation is elected pastor and how do I know that I was called elected here comes the third word What is the third word ha faithful my brothers in the name of biblical authority Do not play with infidelity I continue to affirm what I said at the beginning of the sermon you will not be saved by the day you keep nor by the tithe you return nor by the meat you do not eat you will be saved by what Christ did on the cross of Calvary but if you understood what you really went through on the cross of Calvary you will live Walking with the lamb being called elected and what faithful so if I say I am called and elected but I am Unfaithful the gace is there something wrong with my calling and my election because the called and the elected how does he live in what way faithfully so don't play with infidelity Don't play with infidelity in keeping the Sabbath don't play Don't treat Saturday like Thursday Saturday is not Thursday Don't live on social media on Saturday like you live on social media during the week o Saturday is a day that you should set aside to spend more in the presence of God do not play with infidelity because ezequel 2020 says that Saturday is a sign from God that you belong to God you are not saved because you keep the Sabbath but because you walk with the lamb and are saved you will be faithful And if I am not faithful something is wrong like me walking with the Lamb something is wrong because the victor the victor of Revelation 17 14 is called chosen and faithful Do not play with the infidelity of your body during these 10 days we studied at least in four of the 10 days about the care we must take with the temple of the Holy Spirit Do not play with leaving aside the principles of health that God has already presented to you your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and you must treat it as a temple in the temple only the best can enter you can look at the temple and the Tabernacle only the best the best olive oil the best wood the best of this here is now a temple I have to put the best here because the holy spirit dwells here so Don't treat the principles of health as something that can be overlooked as they are of lesser importance in the Christian life Don't play with Infidelity with your body because the victorious are called chosen and faithful my brother my sister don't play with the infidelity of communion with God don't play Don't play with leaving home this evil world that is tempting everyone day Destroy our marriage our children our Christian life and you leave the house unprotected without praying without reading the Bible Elen had a quote that she said I fear sleeping in the house of someone who doesn't have family worship because that house is unprotected and she says I would only sleep in that house if it was with the intention of helping this family to catch up on family worship a house without family worship is unprotected so don't joke about the infidelity of saying like, no today I don't have time Today I'm going alone, don't go to work alone, don't go to university alone, go into the presence of God and seek God deeply, my brothers, don't play with infidelity in tithes and offerings .
