Lord, we come before and just give thanks for all the things that you do in our lives, Lord.

Thank you for your blessing, Lord, and how you surround us with your love and your mercy, Lord.

Continue to give us guide our steps each day, Lord.

Continue to keep our hearts and our minds always focus on you, Lord.

And we just lift up this time to you, Lord.

As we listen to your message, Lord, may you bless this time in Jesus' name.

Jesus' name. Amen. And amen. And good morning and welcome. And you can be seated. So glad you're

here today. Thank you. Oh, you weren't talking to me.

Don't you hate that? It's like putting your hand out to shake somebody's hand and they don't,

never mind. Those of you all in line, we're so glad you're joining with us as well. We want to welcome you and we want to get right to it.

Revelation chapter 21, we're making our way verse by verse through the book of Revelation,

which is the last book of the Bible. We left off verse 8 last week. We're going to pick it up verse 9 this week and go through to

verse 14. So I'm going to have you stand if you want, if you're able, if not, no worries.

Where you're seated is fine. For the reading of God's word just follow along beginning

in verse 9 where John by the Holy Spirit writes one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls

full of the seven last plagues came to me and said come,

I will show you the bride, the wife of the land.

And verse 10, he carried me away in the spirit to a mountain great and high.

And he showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.

Verse 11, it shone with the glory of God and its brilliance was like that of a very precious

jewel, like a Jasper, clear as crystal. You almost get the impression that

John is struggling to even describe what he's seeing. Verse 12, it had a great, high wall with 12 gates and with 12 angels at the gates on the gates were written the names of the

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