Worship in the Garden-City

SERIES: BEING THE CHURCH
MESSAGE: Worship in the Garden-City
TEXT: Revelation 22:1-5
MESSAGE BY: Pastor J Carr

The Garden-City

• Eden (&Jerusalem) 2.0

• v. 3 “his servants will worship him”

• No temple (21:22)

Jesus on worship 

• Untethered from outward ritual/place

• Further emphasized the heart

• John 4:21-24

Worship is all of life

• So, why gather for “worship”?

Enacting our hope

• The Already-Not Yet

• We are Met, Marked, Centered, and Sustained

Met & Marked

• Rev. 22:4

• United by being his and being with him

• He really is among us but will be among us in even greater way

• Purely devoted (undiluted, undivided)

Centered

• Rev. 22:5

• The sun is a shadow, Christ is the substance

• Malachi 4:2; John 1:4-5; 9

• God’s first words: let there be light (double meaning!)

• v. 4 - see his face (1 Tim. 6:16 - unapproachable light?)

Sustained

• Rev. 22:2-3

• The tree of life

• Ezekiel 47:12

• From many to one, why?

• Acts 10:39; Galatians 3:13

• v.3 “no longer anything ACCURSED”

• Lord’s supper - eating of Christ’s life

• 1 Peter 2:24-25