He Secures Our Victory

He is indeed worthy, and we have this wonderful privilege of coming together tonight as we come to the end of the last couple of days of our fasting and prayer. What a blessing it has been in the life of the church to spend night after night on the phone prayers and also on Zoom calls and to spend time in God’s presence.

As I mentioned to you last week, we have been going through the book of Hebrews during our Zoom calls, and we went through all 13 chapters of the book of Hebrews. We had different speakers every night, different worship teams, and it was such a blessing to hear from different young and young adults in our church go through the book of Hebrews. And the theme of the book of Hebrews is how Jesus is so much better. And then as we sang tonight, it is about His worthiness and how He is the One Who holds the keys to everything in life. Christ is our hope in life and death. He makes everything better. The new covenant makes everything better.

I think all of this comes to a culmination in the book of Revelation, especially in Revelation chapter five, which is what we’ll be focusing on tonight and tomorrow night. I have had the privilege of preaching the book of Revelation, I think about three different times now. A few weeks ago, someone here in this church asked me, “Pastor, will you preach through the book of Revelation?” And I thought to myself, I cannot make the same audience go through the book of Revelation again. But as God gives opportunities like these, we will go through maybe some of the themes from the book of Revelation. And so we are in Revelation chapter five, and it goes along with the song that we were just singing.

Almost 60 years of life have gone by in the life of the apostle John. He has seen every single one of his companions who followed the Lord Jesus being killed in different parts of the world. We do not know in a time where news did not travel as fast as it does today if the apostle himself was fully aware of everything that happened to his companions; he only knew probably that they traveled to different parts of the world, and oftentimes probably nothing much was heard about them. But as we study in history, we know that he who was an elder at the church in Ephesus, church history tells us, came under the persecution of the Roman emperor Domitian and thus was exiled to the island of Patmos.

Even today, you can go and see that island where John was exiled to. Everyone else in life would probably—he was probably in his nineties by the time he was exiled to the island of Patmos—that’s a time in which you have come probably to the end of your life here on earth. And surely in the mind of this apostle, I’m definitely sure that he also thought that his life on earth would end on the island of Patmos. But God had a divine plan for sending him to the island of Patmos. He had already written the Gospel of John and probably thought that was all that God wanted him to do about the deity of our Lord, affirming it further more than any of the other Gospel writers had because of all the wrong teachings that had already been starting to creep into the first‑century church. But God had great plans, as you know, as He sends him to the island of Patmos.

There in the nineties, he is forced to work in a mine along with other Roman prisoners, probably very, very hard labor that would even crush even the young at heart. But here is a man, and the Word of God tells us on the Day of the Lord, as he worshiped the Lord, he was in the Spirit. In chapters 2 and 3, he gets the Word of the Lord to be given to seven churches, seven present‑day churches that existed in Asia Minor at that time, one of them being the church at Ephesus where John was privileged to be an elder before he was exiled to the island of Patmos.

This message to the churches also resonates with churches of all the ages. Even though there are different ways to interpret what those seven churches represent, some people divide it up into seven time periods of history. I think, in my opinion, the right way to look at it is that all these seven churches can be found in the world at any given time. So there is something to learn for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ by looking at the seven churches. I don’t think the Holy Spirit randomly picked seven churches. These seven churches all have a message to speak to the church of all the ages.

At the end of that message of the seven churches, we read in Revelation 4:1‑2 something that happened to him: “After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, ‘Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.’”

So he is being lifted almost like the apostle Paul was to the third heaven, whether by body or outside of the body, probably in the Spirit, to the heavenly realms. And he is asked to see not only heaven, but God is about to reveal to him all the things that must happen after this. “At once,” the Bible says, “I was in the Spirit,” so he’s being taken up in the power of the Holy Spirit, “and there before me was a throne in heaven with Someone sitting on it.”

Then as you go through chapter four, it’s a description of the majestic vision that he has about heaven—not only about the identity of the Person Who is sitting on the throne and all the various colors and the great sights of majesty, but heaven itself is open before him, and he’s trying to describe to us, in human words as much as possible, what heaven was like. Then you come to verse 11. Towards the end of that chapter we see a heavenly worship that is happening, where the elders are laying down their crowns before the four living creatures around the throne of God, and they’re worshiping the Father Who is sitting on the throne. Their cry:

“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your will they were created and have their being.”

So the worship that is going on in Revelation chapter four is the worship of the Creator God—specifically the worship of the Father. The Father Who created all things is being worshiped in Revelation chapter four. All living creatures—the four living creatures represent creation as a whole—and the elders are casting their thrones before Him and crying out, “Lord, You’re worthy to receive all glory and power because You are the Creator of all things. By Your will they’re created and have their being. Not only were they created by You; even their existence in the earth as a continual existence is because of Your will and by Your sustaining power by which You hold all things together.”

Then we come to chapter five. It is kind of unfortunate that in the English Bible there is a break there because in the narrative of things there is no break between Revelation chapters four and five.

“Then I saw in the right hand of Him Who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals.”

So this is again a continuation of the Person Who is sitting on the throne. We already know that is the Heavenly Father. The Father is sitting on the throne, and there we just saw the worship of Him as the Creator by all creatures. Then he says, “I looked, and the One sitting on the throne, on His right hand…” This word “right hand” is very, very important in God’s Word. As you study Scriptures, we know the right hand represents majesty, power, authority, and He is sitting on the throne. Again, those are words that are given to us to help us understand what is happening in heaven. It’s not necessarily that God is sitting on a throne, but that’s the way he is seeing it—that shows that God is resting, God is settled.

As I mentioned to some of you the other day, God is not pacing back and forth. Your God is not in heavens like we do. We often pace back and forth when we are troubled by things; we get restless. God is always sitting down in heaven because God is not fazed by anything on earth. God doesn’t wake up one morning and say, “Oh, wait a minute. I did not know this was going to happen.” God does not wake up in the middle of the night in cold sweats like we do. God does not have nightmares. There is nothing that happens on the earth that catches God by surprise. Computers don’t surprise God. Smartphones don’t surprise God. AI doesn’t surprise God. Presidents don’t surprise God. Prime ministers don’t surprise God. Wars don’t surprise God. Calamities don’t surprise God. The way the church is does not surprise God. God is not taken by anything by surprise.

We, not knowing the future and not in control of the affairs of life and the future, are constantly perplexed and surprised by the things of this world. That is natural to every human being. Even the strongest believers out there pace back and forth. Even the strongest believers out there worry and are filled with anxiety. Even the strongest preacher out there that tells you not to worry is worrying at the very moment he is telling you not to worry. We are human beings, so we are given to all kinds of emotions in our life. Even when I stand here with a smile, there could be a war that is raging inside of me. That is human nature.

But God, in God’s Word, is always sitting down. In fact, there are only very, very unique times in which He stands up. One was during the martyrdom of Stephen. That shows the care and concern that God had for what was happening to His dear servant. Otherwise, God is sitting down in a settled posture, unfazed, unconcerned, untroubled by anything that is happening in this earth.

Not only that, on His right hand, the side of authority, the Bible says He has a scroll. In some of your translations, He has a book. “Scroll” is the right translation—“with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals.”

What is this talking about? What is a scroll? A scroll containing a book, for example the Dead Sea Scrolls that has the entire book of Isaiah, is about 24 feet in length. The average scroll that contained many of the writings of Scriptures were anywhere estimated between 15 to 30 feet long. But this is not just talking about a book. This is talking about something that has to do with a deed, a will—something that contains certain things that must happen. It is not a scroll of prophecy. It is not a scroll of future things that are about to happen. It is a contract, per se, in which God has already established certain things that must happen, and that scroll has to be opened to unleash the events that God has already predetermined.

To make you understand this, this word “scroll” is used like when you enter into a contract with someone, or when you purchase a property and there’s a deed associated with it. A scroll is used to determine the details of what is in there, and the Bible says it was written on both sides. This was very common as well. On the outside of the scroll, you have a summary of what is inside the scroll; inside the scroll are the details of what is going to be mentioned. For example, when you take a book and you open the front cover or you look at the back cover, you see a summary of what the book is all about. The scroll had the same thing happen to it—its writing on the outside tells you what is contained inside the scroll.

Then the scroll has a detail. If you go to Jeremiah 32:10‑11, we see an example of a scroll just like this—probably one that the writer had in mind when he’s describing this to us. The context here is about the fall of Jerusalem that is about to happen. Jeremiah is prophesying that the fall is about to happen. He has a cousin who is very shrewd, a real‑estate agent, a realtor at that time, and he has a property. And he’s looking at the destruction that is about to come upon Jerusalem and he’s like, “I have this property that is about to plunge in value like anything else, because the Babylonians are going to come and destroy everything. My property will not be worth anything.”

Jeremiah, in the right sense, should not be buying this property because the value is going to plunge. If you know that something bad is going to happen to a town, you will not go and buy real estate in that town. That’s what is happening exactly here. But God told him, “The destruction that is going to come upon Jerusalem is not going to be a permanent one, and God is going to restore this city again. As an act of faith, I want you to buy the property that belongs to your cousin Hanamel.” Even though that was a foolish thing to do, God wanted Jeremiah to do that to show that God was a promise‑keeping God and that God was going to increase the value of that property and restore that property again to its future glory.

“I signed and sealed the deed; I had it witnessed and weighed out the silver on the scale for the purchase of the property. I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy containing the terms and conditions, as well as the unsealed copy.”

You see here an example of what a scroll did at that time. The deed to purchase the property is sealed, and it contains all the details: this property belonging to this person is now being sold to this person for this much money, and all the details contained in it are included inside that sealed scroll. In fact, this was very common at that time. The Bible tells us that seven seals were used to seal the scroll very, very securely.

The Romans did that; in fact, they required that any kind of official document was sealed by seven seals. The Jews had a little bit less of a stringent requirement; all they required was three witnesses and three seals. But here in God’s Word it says, this document contained writing on the inside and the outside and was sealed with seven seals.

Let me tell you three different things about the description that we can learn about this scroll from the description that is given to us in God’s Word.

First, this scroll tells us what was written had already happened. What does that mean? These contents of the scroll are already predetermined by the Lord with no addition or deletion that is allowed to the contents of the scroll. Who wrote this scroll? God wrote this scroll. Guess what? He has written it on the inside and the outside. What does that mean? There is no more room left for man to add anything to it, and because it is such a secure document, you are not allowed to take anything away from it as well. Tonight I want you to understand that you serve a God Who is in control of history, and everything is already predetermined by Him. You cannot change even a second of history without the permission of Almighty God. Even before God created everything, everything that should happen has already been predetermined by Him—even the end of the world has already been predetermined by Him.

Second, a scroll sealed by seven seals is secure and is only able to be opened by someone with the authority to do so. When you make this legal document, there is also a stipulation associated with it. Not anyone can go and open this scroll—only those who are authorized with the authority can open this document. That is why the question is asked later on, “Is there anyone worthy to open this scroll?” because only one with the right authority can do so.

Third, what does this do? As you read through the book of Revelation, chapter five is key to understanding the entire book of Revelation. What happens as you read through chapters 6, 7, 8, all the way to chapter 20? We see God’s judgment unleashing on the nations of the world. That cannot happen unless the seal is broken. But it is not only God’s judgment coming upon the nations of the world; it is also God’s redemption, especially coming to God’s own people—Revelation chapter seven, we see the Gentiles’ numbers being fulfilled. All these things are happening also in the midst of God’s judgment. Finally you come to Revelation chapter twenty: God will redeem this earth in a way in which there will be a thousand‑year reign in which there will be peace upon this earth as God redeems this fallen earth, at least to an extent. But the restoration of this world as we know it—a new heaven and a new earth that God will restore—happens in Revelation chapters 21‑22.

So retribution—judgment of God; not only that, redemption of mankind—Jew and Gentile alike; restoration of this heaven and earth to the way that God always intended it to be. None of these things will happen unless and until the seal is broken. The scroll is unraveled, and God is able to usher in the end of the age and make all things right again.

Every time I would read about a new heaven and a new earth, I thought in my earlier days in life that God was going to completely destroy this earth and just create something brand new. But then, when you study the original language, the way it is written, God did not make a mistake by creating the earth and the heaven that we know. The language that is used is so beautiful: God is going to restore this heaven and earth to the way He always intended it to be. So when John is looking, he’s seeing a new heaven and new earth. To him, everything is so new because nothing of the curse of the old heaven and the old earth is found in the new heaven and new earth—it’s as if it’s brand new. It’s almost like a perfectly remodeled home. You’ve been living in it for about 30‑40 years—you know what I’m talking about. After about 30‑40 years, what happens to that perfect new home that you had? It starts wearing down. But imagine the master builder coming back—rather than just crushing everything to the ground, He goes through every room in that home; He restores it to the beautiful way He always intended it to be. To the person that is now looking at it for the first time it says, “Oh, here’s a new heaven and a new earth where God is dwelling with His people.”

So whether it be a new heaven and new earth in kind or in quality, it doesn’t matter. Restoration of everything that is broken cannot happen unless and until the seal is broken and the scroll is opened. The opening of the scroll is the unleashing of the events that will bring about God’s judgment, redemption, and restoration to mankind. In fact, when you study through the book of Revelation, the Bible never says that anyone actually read anything that was inside the scroll. That is not the purpose for opening the scroll. The purpose for the opening of the scroll is to make sure that the world that God had created is finally able to be restored to His previous line. And only one person was found worthy to bring it back to restoration, which we’ll talk about in a minute.

“I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice…” The identity of the angel is not given in God’s Word. Some say it’s Gabriel—his name means strength of God—but you know what? As mighty as he is and as loud of a voice as he has, he is not able to open and break the scroll. Then he is asking the question in a loud voice where all of heaven can hear it—and in fact, all of earth can hear it as well, as we’ll see in a second: “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?”

The word “worthy” over here is not one in which we understand the term worthy in English. It literally means who is morally able to break the seal and open the scroll.

Here’s the sad part:
“No one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it.”

The Old Testament saints are already in heaven. The New Testament saints who had gone before are already in heaven; none of them can open the book or break the seal. Paul cannot do it. Moses cannot do it. Abraham cannot do it. None of the apostles of the New Covenant can do it. None of the Old Testament prophets can do it. Elijah and Enoch, who were taken up into heaven without even seeing death, cannot do it. The Bible says no one in heaven could do it.

None of the angelic beings untainted by sin living in heaven could do it. No saint on earth could do it. Under the earth, the abode of the dead, Hades, no one who had ever been departed could do it. No one could do it. All of mankind, with all of his efforts, with all of his achievements, could not find even a single person qualified to bring about redemption and restoration to mankind.

“I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside.”

The word that is used over there is for intense wailing. In fact, the word that is used over there is what you would see at a funeral when your loved ones pass away—you see people crying uncontrollably, loudly. That is the kind of cry that was coming from the mouth of John. In fact, the word that is used here is not the same word that is used in John 11:35 where it said, “Jesus wept.” That was just shedding of a tear. This is literally wailing in heaven. In fact, this is the only time in the entire Bible where we see weeping happening in heaven—it’s when John would weep in the presence of God.

“I wept and wept”—the word there again says it was continuous weeping. No one could console him; no one could control the agony of the cry that was coming from the mouth of John. He kept on wailing and crying before Him.

The question comes: Why is John the apostle so upset that no one was found to open, break the seal, and open the scroll? You know why? He knows fully well that if this seal is not broken and the scroll is not opened, this world will continue as it is in its fallen nature. Judgment of God will not happen in this world. Redemption will not be fully realized. This earth will continue to produce babies after babies, born into a fallen world, unable to have any hope of living in a new heaven and a new earth, where God will make all things new.

How many times have you and I faced desperate times in our life, and then God reminds us of a world that is coming when He will make all things right, and that brings peace into our lives? But what if that option wasn’t there? What if your life was only about your life on earth? What if there was no hope of a future heaven where things would be made all right? See, our life on earth would suddenly become so utterly meaningless, without any purpose, filled with sadness.

Remember what he’s going through. He has seen the death of so many Christians in his lifetime. If there is no judgment for what the world has done toward them, they should be weeping in the midst of it because it means that man has been able to do anything against God’s people and not suffer the consequences of God’s judgment. Even this week, I know many of you saw this post all over about the killer of Graham Staines and his two young sons being released from prison and celebrated as a hero—that is the judgment that we find in the world. But God says a day is coming when He is going to judge the world in righteousness, and it cannot happen unless and until the seal is broken and the scroll is opened.

As I mentioned to you last week, judgment may not make much sense to you and me who are living in the comforts of America, but to the persecuted church, judgment is a necessity to show that our God is a fair God. Our God sees the suffering of His people; He has measured everything. He is measuring all of His anger. His wrath is boiling, and there’s a day that is coming when He will unleash judgment upon the world that is rejecting the Word of God.

The other day I saw a video of a man who was walking in the street, and he’s one of these street preachers. He did this video where he just asked one question to people: “Do you believe in Jesus Christ?” You know what the response that he got about—I saw the video for about 20 people. Every single one of them dismissed him, ridiculed him, and walked away. This is here in America. Twenty out of twenty made fun of him, ridiculed him, and walked away. See, all of this will come to an end when God—Jesus Christ—unleashes His judgment upon the earth. The redemption of mankind, the restoration of everything that is broken—there’s weeping because unless and until this scroll is broken, everything that you read about from Revelation chapter six all the way to the end of the book cannot happen.

Then here’s the good news:

“Then one of the elders said to me, ‘Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah…’”

What a word—“Lion of the tribe of Judah.” In the glories of heaven, he sees the Father sitting there on the throne. John somehow forgot about the One Who came to redeem him on the cross. Somehow in the midst of the glories of heaven, John forgot about his Master that he had walked after for more than three‑plus years. He forgot about what He had done.

The description that is given of this Man Who would come, worthy to break the seal and to open the scroll: The first thing we see is He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah.

Where is this coming from? Remember when Jacob was blessing his children—Genesis 49:8. Turning to Judah, he told him this: “Judah, your brothers will praise you.” And what is the reason for that? Verse 9: “You are a lion’s cub, Judah; you return from the prey, my son. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness—who dares to rouse him?”

So Judah and his family, described by Jacob in a prophetic way under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, are compared to a lion and lioness and a lion’s cub. Why is that? Remember what the lion is—the lion is the king of the jungle. Look at verse 10: “The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until He to Whom it belongs shall come, and the obedience of the nations shall be His.”

Immediately this prophetic word finds its fulfillment as David comes from the tribe of Judah—David sat on the throne, and “the scepter will not depart from Judah” was kind of fulfilled in the life of David. But the ultimate fulfillment only came when Jesus was born in the tribe of Judah—then “until He to Whom it belongs shall come, and the obedience of the nations shall be His.” Who is the One Who is going to sit on the throne of David forever? It is the Lion of the tribe of Judah Who came as a Baby in a manger. But if you look closely at Him, He is the One that Jacob had talked about in Genesis 49:10—the One Whose kingdom shall remain forever. He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah.

Not only is He the Lion of the tribe of Judah; second description about Him: He is the Root of David.

Wait a minute—He is the Root of David? I thought He came from Jesse’s root. Oh, this is the beauty in God’s Word. Look at Isaiah 11:1: “A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.” This Branch is the Lord Jesus Christ. The shoot that rises from the root of Jesse is actually the Lord Jesus.

Then the question comes, how can He be the Branch and the Root at the same time? You have to keep on reading God’s Word and you come to Isaiah 11:10: “In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to Him, and His resting place will be glorious.”

So in the same chapter of Isaiah, He is the shoot that comes from the root of Jesse, but He is also the Root of Jesse. To Him all the nations will come, and His resting place will be glorious. Here is how to understand this. In His humanity, He is a shoot from Jesse because He was born into the family of David. But in His divinity—do you know what He is? He is the Root of Jesse, because even before David was born, Jesus was eternally there, and even David was brought into this world by the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the originator of everyone; He is the source of everyone. That’s why Jesus said, “Before Abraham was, I AM.” Before David was, I AM. Before any of the Old Testament prophets were, He is the I AM of the Old Testament. That is how He is able to be the Branch and the Root at the same time.

That’s why Jesus would turn to the skeptics around Him and say, “How did David call me his Lord and Son at the same time?” Oh, He is the Son of David in that He is born in the family of David, but He is the Lord of David because He is the God eternal Who is the source of every human being. He triumphs over everyone and He has come to be our Mediator by being both God and man.

Now, the question comes: What about these two terms of “Lion” and “Root”? The Lion shows strength, majesty, and courage; the Lion points to the fact that He is the strength of our salvation. The Root points to the fact that He is the source of our salvation. The Lion—He is the strength of our salvation; our salvation could not be accomplished apart from the Lord Jesus Christ. But He is also the source of our salvation—from Him we get everything; everything is derived back to Him.

He is now able to be the Judge of all because of His standing—the rightful standing before God—because He has paid the price, exactly what the Father did, didn’t He? Look at John 5:22: “The Father judges no one, but He has entrusted all judgment to the Son.” That’s why the Son came up and said He is worthy to break the seal and open the scroll, because only the Son is able to judge the world. Not only that—look at John 5:27: “He has given Him”—Who? The Lord Jesus—“authority to judge because He is the Son of Man.” By being in human flesh but being God at the same time, He is the only One Who is able to judge both the living and the dead. Every human being will appear before Him, because as God He died for all mankind, but He is also the representative of all mankind—the only perfect Man Who is able to judge both the living and the dead. What a great God we serve.

But you know what the greatest good news of a Good Friday is? This God—Who is the Judge of all—is also the One Who paid your penalty on the cross. Isn’t it wonderful to think that? The One Who is sitting there holding the keys to life and death and your future is the same One Who was willing to pay your penalty on the cross, and thus He is able to say, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Only He is able to say that.

Let me end with this: What makes Him worthy? What makes Him worthy more than anyone else? What is it about Him—out of all the people who’ve ever walked on the face of the earth—nobody in heaven, nobody on earth or under the earth was fit to do this. What made Him worthy? Because He’s the only One Who has ever walked on the face of the earth Who was fully God and thus able to pay for our sins, and fully Man—but not just an ordinary man, a perfect Man Who is able to restore things to where they are.

Remember what I said in the beginning—that this scroll is like a deed to purchase back the things that were lost, or as an agreement. When God created man, He told Adam, “I will give you the right to rule over the whole world.” He had dominion over the whole earth; the whole earth was under the control of Adam. But what happened? He sinned in the Garden of Eden, and because of that, man lost his dominion over the earth. Fallen, this world became filled with all kinds of suffering, death, pain, weeping—these things entered because of the sin of man. But do you know what the last Adam did? The last Adam paid the price on the cross to purchase back the fallen creation of God. Because He paid the price, guess what that deed contains? His Name. Everything now belongs to Him.

Just like Jeremiah bought the land from his cousin by paying the pieces of silver, the Lamb of God came to this earth, died on the cross, and paid the price with His own blood to purchase back all of us and all of creation back to God. That’s why, when the question is asked, “Who is worthy to open?” only One can be found, because only One has paid the price. Only One is worthy—no one else has died for you, only Jesus has. That is why He is able to take the scroll and open the seal and say, “Everything can be judged now. Everything can be redeemed now. Everything can be restored now according to the will of the Heavenly Father, because I have paid the price.”

Even though the Bible doesn’t mention anything about reading the contents of the scroll, if you were to open it, it would say: Man had lost everything, but because Jesus came, paying fully the price that was needed to restore mankind and creation, now everything belongs to Him, and He has every right to do whatever He wants with all of humanity and all of creation because He owns everything. The God Who owned everything had become the rightful Owner of it again.

In the book of Leviticus, when a land was sold, there’s a beautiful verse—God saying, be careful with how you sell the land, because ultimately the land belongs to Me. That land was lost, the land was corrupted, but He paid the price to buy it back. And what is happening in Revelation chapter five is the rightful Owner stepping up and saying, “Enough is enough. I am going to make all things new again.”

Let’s stand in the presence of God. That verse in chapter five ends with this word—the elder comes and he says, “The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, He is worthy. You know why? Because He has overcome.” That’s our title today—Overcomers. Why? Because we are in the Lord—because Jesus lives among us. He gives us victory over sin, victory over death, victory over Satan, victory over the powers of darkness because we serve a God Who is an Overcomer. I pray that you will trust in Him as you worship Him today—that in every season of life, Jesus is victorious; He’s able to give you the victory because He is the ultimate Overcomer. Let’s sing to the Lord and continue to worship Him.