Church Discipline. The very topic sounds unfriendly—even scary. A lot of Christians have no idea what church discipline is or how it is supposed to work—many have never once seen it done or heard it spoken of in their churches. But it is something the church is commanded to do when one of our members rebels against God and refuses repent.

Today we come to the end of the book of Revelation. This is the end of the entire Bible. It ends the way a lot of other books in the Bible end: with promises and yearnings for the Lord to come and do the next thing that He has promised.

Today we come to verse 12 where Jesus appears to personally certify these visions. How special to have Him personally address His church!

At our Congregational Meeting back in March, the session presented the names of two men who were nominated to serve as deacons—Dave Talos and Dave Eldridge. After these men had some training, the session called a congregational meeting on Nov 3rd so the congregation could express their will concerning these men. Both were approved. Before that vote, I preached on Acts 6:1-7 on the qualification and method of selecting deacons. Today, for their ordination and installation, I will preach from the same text on the need and work of deacons.

What a great encouragement it has been over the last three weeks to see Revelation's description of the New Heaven and the New Earth! It is the glorious destiny of all of the elect people of our gracious God to be at last brought into sweet and eternal fellowship with Him in a gloriously renewed heaven and earth where He will be all in all to us in Christ our Saviour. Today we will look at the first of these—the description of Revelation's revelation.

Today, the sermon will be from 1 Samuel 2:11-3:1. As a preacher for God, I have been urging you to make sure that you care about what Hannah cares about. Has God opened your eyes to see that He is the only one who can change you, change the church, and change the world? I believe that many of you do care about that. Today's passage shows how God is at work to bless His people even when we can't see it.

For the past two weeks, we have been looking at what the Apostle John saw about the New Heaven and the New Earth in his vision as recorded in chapter 21. He continues to describe what he saw and heard about this New Heaven and New Earth in the first five verses of chapter 22. We will look at these today. I believe that the New Heaven and the New Earth began after Christ abolished the Old Jerusalem and that it continues and reaches its fulfillment in when we get to glory. In revealing this vision, John sees a vision of God's city in glory, and then Jesus tells John to tell us that what He saw is what really will be.