* the first part of the sermon got cut off, so if you would like to see it, you can find that at the bottom of this description:
Summary:
Pastor Trey digs into Revelation 10 and a strange moment in the Bible— eating a scroll. But the image goes all the way back to Ezekiel, and it carries a truth that every follower of Jesus needs to sit with: the good news is sweet. And sometimes? It turns your stomach. In this episode, we talk about what it really means to be a witness (hint: it's a see-and-say word), why words and works were never meant to be separated, and how the bitterness you feel over people not seeing it yet is actually a sign you're doing it right. Whether you love talking about your faith, feel guilty about it, or have complicated feelings about the whole thing — pull up a chair.
Sermon script:
Read Revelation 10.
Years ago, one of my best friends, Hunter, and I took kayaks or a canoe out to this island on Percy Priest Lake.
And I don’t know about you guys, but for some reason, I always thought it would be cool to be safely stranded on a deserted island and have to survive. At least in my head, it actually would be terrifying, but i don’t know we were walking around this area, and no one else was around.
And we find this tent that had been destroyed by a storm or something, and Hunter and I both were like - somebody is dead in that tent. And we’re on this island in the middle of this lake, and we’re about to find a dead body.
This is nuts. So of course, naturally, we tentatively look around and inside the tent, and nothing is there. But we were about ready to be witnesses in court to what we found on this island in the middle of Percy Priest Lake.
Cause we’d seen it. Now of course none of that happened.
You know I do often think though about situations where someone believes something that seems crazy and no one believes them, until it happens. Or until they do.
Like I used to watch this sci-fi show Doctor Who. It’s been going on forever, but the main character Dr. Who - I’m not going to explain who he is, but he can travel across the universe and across time through a thing called the Tardis (Time And Relative Dimension in Space). It’s not just a a space ship. It’s a time and space machine, that looks on the outside like a phone booth. But is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. And naturally no one really believes it until they see it.
But when you do, man if i saw that, I would tell everybody. You gotta see this space time ship thingI’ve seen. It’s crazy.I can’t help but tell you about it.
I’ve witnessed something and I have to tell you. And this text sets us up for next week about witnessing.
This word witness is an important word. We look to witnesses in court cases. We look to witnesses to see if somehting actually happened. If someone we know tells us about something and we trust them and they’ve seen it, we’re more prone to trusting it.Witness is a “see and say” word (per Scot McKnight.)
You see something and you testify it. And it’s a super important word throughout the Bible. A witness is the one who sees something. And then you bear witness by sharing what you’ve seen. "
