Truth # 1: All Believers, in Every Period, Have ALWAYS Been Imperfect All throughout Their Lives:
One of the most amazing truths of God’s Word is that God accepts and uses imperfect people. The simplest and most accurate description of the Apostles would be: twelve imperfect men.
The simplest and most accurate description of John, Paul, Peter, Noah, Daniel, Moses, Hannah, and Mary would be that they each were imperfect servants.
The same could be said for every servant, every saint, every Christian home, and every Christian marriage. The simplest and most accurate description of all we do, and are, is: imperfect.
Truth # 2: Imperfect SAINTS that are Surrendered Can Offer Worship that God Treasures and Rewards:
So what makes what we do acceptable, pleasing to God, lasting, golden like the crowns of Heaven, and eternal? Submission.
The verses we have before us this morning portray the submission God delights in. The elders (formerly IMPERFECT earthly saints) do a visual for us as they worship in Heaven: they humbly fall on their faces, bowing submissively before Christ the King, and as an offering of worship, lay their golden crowns as His feet.
They humbly fall on their faces in Heaven because they had humbly worshipped on Earth.
They submissively bow in Heaven, because they had submissively bowed on Earth.
They offer golden crowns in Heaven because God declares their worship on Earth was tested as they offered it and found to be like gold.
Remember what God has already told us in I Corinthians 3:10-13: that all of our good works will go through the fires of refinement to see what genuine gold is.
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