Main Idea: We can entrust ourselves to God completely because He will not fail us.

Main Question: How do we entrust ourselves to Christ completely?

• We must rid ourselves of reservations.
• We must let Him lead our lives.

Revelation 8:13 - 9:6

Main Idea: If we don’t heed the voice of wisdom,

we will hear the laugh of wisdom.

Main Question: What is it that hinders us from

hearing and heeding the voice of wisdom?

• We will listen and respond to the voice we’re most familiar with.
• The promise of immediate pleasure deafens us to the reality of inevitable consequences.

Revelation 8:6-12

God's people are sealed by God and will not suffer God's wrath.

Main Idea: Until we learn to fear the Lord, we will continue to lack wisdom.

Main Question: How does fearing the Lord help us gain wisdom?

• Without God, we can’t know anything.
• Without God, we cannot rightly apply knowledge to our lives.

Main Question: How can we truly know God and gain spiritual understanding?

• We must stop looking inward and begin looking upward.
• We cannot know God apart from God.

Main Idea: In order to know God and gain spiritual understanding, we must know Jesus personally.

Main Idea: The present we need is the presence of Christ.

Main Question: Why is the presence of Christ God’s greatest gift to humanity?

• Jesus frees us from the burden of sin and legalism.
• Jesus places the heaviest burden on Himself.

They understood the prophecies of the Bible.

They looked expectantly waiting for Jesus.

They were excited to believe and see Jesus.

Main Idea: When God is at work in our midst, we must respond quickly and appropriately or else we will miss the moment.

Main Question: What is the appropriate response to God working in our midst?

• When God is at work in our midst, we must get on board even if His ways go against our preferences.
• When God is at work in our midst, we must repent and obey because we will be held accountable for how we respond.