The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Well, the scene we're going to see this morning in the Word of God

will be the consummate heavenly reality of what we've just experienced in our worship here.

And it will be vastly more wonderful and amazing.

I'm going to try my best to let the Word of God speak to you about what heavenly worship

will be like by having you look at Revelation Chapter 7. You can open your Bibles, excuse me,

to Revelation chapter 7. And in our ongoing study of this incredible

book of visions that were given to the Apostle John at the end of the first century, we have come

to another vision of heaven. There have been two chapters

which took us to heaven. I read one of them earlier, Revelation 5, and Revelation 4 also

was a scene of the throne in heaven. What's happening is we're accumulating

and understanding of the glory of heaven. So let me read to you chapter 7, verse 9 through 17.

After these things I looked, and behold a great multitude,

which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing

before the throne and before the lamb clothed in white robes and palm branches were in

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