Restoration: Let Earth Receive Her King

Revelation 21:1-8 | Sermon Resources | 22 December 2024

Sermon Summary

God has written the end of the story. We are not there yet. One day we will be. Pastor Billy explores the final element of the biblical storyline – restoration – in the sermon this week.

Discussion Questions

  1. What was your biggest takeaway from the sermon this week?
  2. What key aspects of the “end of the story” are presented in this passage?  What most encourages you?
  3. What do the descriptions in this passage reveal about the nature of God and his relationship with us?
  4. How does knowing the end of the story help us to live our lives now?
  5. What is the significance of Jesus being described as the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end?  Which do you tend to forget – that Jesus is beginning or that Jesus is the end?
  6. What is most striking to you about the warning found in verse 8? Why do you think this included in a vision of heaven?

Quotes

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.” - CS Lewis, Mere Christianity