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You The Apostle John describes an amazing scene in the book of Revelation in Chapter 7,

a great multitude from every nation praising the Lord.

Today on Truth for Life weekend, Alistair Begg shows how God's plan of redemption is displayed in that scene,

and we'll find out why this passage ought to motivate every one of us as believers to share the gospel.

There are some people, I'm told, who upon the purchase of a novel, go immediately to the closing pages to discover how it ends.

As difficult as it is for me to think of it in terms of fiction, I think I understand it better in the reading of history.

And in particular, when you think about the unfolding drama, not simply of the

history of our world, but the unfolding drama of redemption. And I think it is not only helpful,

but important for us from time to time, to go, as it were, to the end of the story and to remind ourselves of how things

come to a conclusion according to the instruction of Scripture. And so I wanted to finish this

morning the time that I have with you by reminding you of this great picture. It is important for us to remind

ourselves, despite the views of our secular world, that history, all of world history, can only

finally be understood in light of salvation history. God's acts in history are never an afterthought in response to

contingency. God is acting according to the eternal counsel of His will, and the one of whom we

have sung so volubly is he who is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the one of whom we have sung so volubly is he who is the alpha and the omega, the beginning

and the end. Now, since we can see this picture of consummation and this picture of victory,

is then the message that we should then simply lighten up, that we should just wait for God to do

all that he's planning to do. No, the message is not lighten up, the message is buckle up.

The message is again, in the words of the hymn writer, we are facing a task unfinished

that drives us to our knees.

And that the assembled company here described for us by John is not assembled automatically,

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