This may be the truest test of our love for our Lord: will we go out and love the church that he died to save?– Phil Ryken in Loving Jesus More
John’s readers lived in a world (as we do) where evil was rampant and apparently all-powerful. Goodness was weak and frustrated and ineffectual. But John’s very first vision of heaven shows that these appearances are deceptive….God’s power and eternal being ensure that His holiness will triumph over all evil.
– Leon Morris on Revelation 4:8 in The Revelation of St. John (TNTC)
Let us reverently hear and read Holy Scripture, which is the food of the soul.– Thomas Cranmer
Love is not merely an affection of the heart or an attitude of the will; it is also the action of a person’s life. True love comes to expression in practical, often sacrificial deeds of service.– Phil Ryken in Loving Jesus More
– William Hendriksen on Revelation 4 in More Than Conquerors
– G.K. Beale on Revelation 4 in Revelation: A Shorter Commentary
The word must is important. The concern of this book is not with things which simply will happen, as though the future were of absorbing interest in itself. It is rather taken up with things which must happen, the outworking of the divine will. God is in supreme control. John is not writing about matters of chance, but about events which will certainly occur, for they are part of the divine plan.
– Leon Morris on Revelation 4:1 in The Revelation of St. John (TNTC)
The Bible is alive, it speaks to me;– Martin Luther
To whom do we live? Whose will must be done? Whose name must be honored? Do we target our lives on self-satisfaction or do we focus upon the will, the Word, and the glory of God?
– Joel Beeke on Revelation 2:18-29 in Revelation
When we indulge in worldly entertainments, worldly fashions, worldly materialism, and a worldly way of thinking, we are following the Thyatiran inclination to go beyond the borders of God’s Word and what conscience, based on that Word, allows.
– Joel Beeke on Revelation 2:18-29 in Revelation
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