PRESENTATION OUTLINE
"Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later."
Revelation 1:19
[ Isaiah 6, Ezekiel 1, Revelation 4 ]
1. There was a throne and someone was on it (v 2-3)
2. There were other thrones and others on them (v 4-6)
3. There were four beings -- seraphim / cherubim (v 6-8)
4. The elders joined in worship (v 8-11)
Christmas Sentimentality
vs
Christian Worship
"Failure to worship consigns us to a life of spasms and jerks, at the mercy of every advertisement, every seduction, every siren. Without worship we live manipulated and manipulating lives. We move in either frightened panic or deluded lethargy as we are, in turn, alarmed by specters and soothed by placebos. People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose."
- Eugene Peterson