Turn with me, please, to the book of Revelation. Book of Revelation, the 11th chapter, 1117.

They'll put it on the screen for us. For some weeks now, we've been on the subject of receiving a full reward.

Receiving a full reward. receiving a full reward.

There's a lot in the Bible about our reward.

The Lord wanted us to know.

If he wants you to know about it, should you want to know about it?

In Revelation 11 and 17, it said,

this is John by the Spirit seeing into the future, said he, he saw this

this that they were saying, we give you thanks, oh, Lord God Almighty, which are and was and are to come,

because you've taken to you your great power and have reigned.

You hear sometimes people adamantly pound the desk and say,

God is in control.

And in the sense they're implying it, that's simply not true.

He's not controlling everything that everybody does. All you got to do is look at the earth

and see what a mess it's in. If he's controlling everything, he's got it in a mess.

That was quiet. What's the alternative? He's not controlling everything.

He gave man a free will.

And man has chosen to ignore him and rebel against him and disobey.

And because of man's disobedience, going all the way back to Adam and Eve, up until the current day and hour,

because of man's disobedience and sin because of the curse that has resulted in death that's resulted from

sin.

That's why there's so much cruelty and chaos and death on the planet.

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