"There are church-attending people who believe that they are saved because they prayed to receive Jesus once, not realizing that the proof of the genuineness of that prayer is perseverance."

deserving full acceptance

It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all.

1 Timothy 1:15

the great and final exodus!

The great, ultimate, and final exodus is here being declared in song. Three reasons to define the lamb’s worthiness to open the scroll:

1) You were slain.

2) With your blood your purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. (That is the meaning of the event.)

3) (v10.) You have made them to be a kingdom of priests and to reign on the earth. (That is the consequence of the event.)

Revelation 5:9-10

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redemption

The scope of Christ’s work of redemption is both universal and particular: universal because it includes people of every ethnicity and nation; particular because Christ redeems a people for Himself from out of these nations, having had an eye for a remnant of mankind from every tribe.

Revelation 5:9-10

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In the Beginning…

was the Word,

and the Word was with God,

and the Word was God.  John 1:1

God

God created

God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1

pursue

Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.

Hebrews 12:14

the covenantal relationship

What is actually in view here? It is the final exodus and the ultimate, eternal establishment of a covenantal relationship between God and His people. It is what we see at the end of the Revelation. “Now I will be their God and they will be my people…”

Revelation 5:9-10

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God’s covenant to Abraham fulfilled

Here is the climax of God’s redemptive purpose, fulfilling God’s covenant to Abraham to bless the children of promise through his seed (Gen 12:2; Rom 9:6-13). This is why God has commanded the church to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth (Matt 28:18, 19) that He might gather those he has set apart for Himself in every city and town (Acts 18:10; John 17:9, 20) 

Revelation 5:9-10

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