Revelation 6
God’s Patience Leads to Repentance!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, March 5.
What do the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Scroll’s Seven Seals of Justice have to do with your life today? That is a good question as we look at Revelation 6.
The answer to today’s opening question is two big words: Patience and Repentance.
The first big word describes God: God is patient!
Listen to Revelation 6:10-11 as the martyrs of the faith cry out to God in a loud voice,
“How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also.
The Bible explains God’s patience in 2 Peter 3:9, “The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.”
There is our second big word: God’s patience leads us to repentance!
The purpose of Revelation is not to put on display God’s destructive power, but rather God’s saving power—it’s not about wrath, it’s about love! God is patiently calling people back to a relationship with Him!
Seize the moment and respond to God’s saving power today by trusting Jesus with your past successes and failures, your present hopes and dreams, and your future questions and unknowns.
Let’s recite this week’s memory verse from 2 Corinthians 12:9a (NAS95), “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.”