Eternal God, unchanging, mysterious, and unknown
Your boundless love, unfailing grace and mercy shown
Bright seraphim in ceaseless flight around your glorious throne
They raise their voices day and night in praise to you alone

Hallelujah! Glory be to our great God!
Hallelujah! Glory be to our great God!

Lord we are weak and frail, helpless in the storm
Surround us with your angels, hold us in your arms
Our cold and ruthless enemy, his pleasure is our harm
Rise up, O Lord, and he will flee before our sovereign God

Let every creature in the sea and every flying bird
Let every mountain every field and valley of the earth
Let all the moons and all the stars in all the universe
Sing praises to the living God who rules them by his Word

I wanna be close, close to Your side
So Heaven is real and death is a lie
I wanna hear voices of angels above
Singing as one

Hallelujah, holy, holy
God Almighty, Great I Am
Who is worthy? None beside Thee
God Almighty, Great I Am

I wanna be near, near to Your heart
Loving the world, hating the dark
I wanna see dry bones living again
Singing as one

The Great I Am

The mountains shake before You
The demons run and flee
At the mention of Your name
King of majesty
There is no pow’r in hell
Or any who can stand
Before the power and the presence
Of the great I Am

There’s no one like you Lord

Holy, holy

Everything we need
Is here in your presence
Everything we need
Is here in your presence, Jesus

My Healer, Provider
My Savior is here
Sustainer, Redeemer
Jesus is here

There’s no place like your presence Lord
No place we’d rather be in

Meet every need unspoken
Heal every broken heart
Lift every burden
In Your presence Jesus

Restore what has been stolen
Speak peace to every storm
Let there be freedom
In your presence, Jesus

I call you faithful
For the promises you’ve kept
And ev’ry need you’ve met
Lord I’m so grateful
You were with me every step
And I never will forget

When I think of how you’ve blessed me
How your hand has never
Let me go, never let me go

You have been so good to me
God I can’t believe
How you love me
What a friend You have been
So good to me
God I can’t believe how you love me
What a friend you have been

I call you Savior, for the blood
that washed me clean
For the wrongs that you redeemed
I know you’re able
And my eyes don’t have to see
One more reason to believe

When I think of how you’ve blessed me
How your hand has never
Let me go, never let me go

You have been so good to me
God I can’t
Believe how you love me
What a friend You have been
So good to me
God I can’t
Believe how you love me
What a friend you have been

For every morning
For every open door
I call you faithful
And I just wanna thank you Lord
For every mountain
For every time you brought me through
I call you faithful
And I just wanna thank you Lord

For your forgiveness
for how you never turned away
I call you faithful
And I just wanna thank you Lord
For your salvation
You paid the price I couldn’t pay
I call you faithful
And I just wanna thank you Lord

Oh, oh
I just wanna thank you, Lord
Oh, oh
what a friend you have been

Sealed through the Storm 

Timothy Paul Jones

6 Then I saw the Lamb open one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!”
2 I looked, and there was a white horse. Its rider held a bow; a crown was given to him, and he went out as a conqueror in order to conquer.
3 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”
4 Then another horse went out, a fiery red one, and its rider was allowed to take peace from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another. And a large sword was given to him.
5 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and there was a black horse. Its rider held a set of scales in his hand.
6 Then I heard something like a voice among the four living creatures say, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, but do not harm the oil and the wine.”
7 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”
8 And I looked, and there was a pale green horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following after him. They were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword, by famine, by plague, and by the wild animals of the earth.
9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God and the testimony they had given.
10 They cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, the one who is holy and true, how long until you judge those who live on the earth and avenge our blood?”
11 So they were each given a white robe, and they were told to rest a little while longer until the number would be completed of their fellow servants and their brothers and sisters, who were going to be killed just as they had been.
12 Then I saw him open the sixth seal. A violent earthquake occurred; the sun turned black like sackcloth made of hair; the entire moon became like blood; 13 the stars of heaven fell to the earth as a fig tree drops its unripe figs when shaken by a high wind;
14 the sky was split apart like a scroll being rolled up; and every mountain and island was moved from its place.
15 Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and every slave and free person hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
16 And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 because the great day of their wrath has come! And who is able to stand?”

7 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, restraining the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.
2 Then I saw another angel rising up from the east, who had the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were allowed to harm the earth and the sea,
3 “Don’t harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we seal the servants of our God on their foreheads.”
4 And I heard the number of the sealed:

144,000 sealed from every tribe of the Israelites:
5 12,000 sealed from the tribe of Judah,
12,000 from the tribe of Reuben,
12,000 from the tribe of Gad,
6 12,000 from the tribe of Asher,
12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali,
12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh,
7 12,000 from the tribe of Simeon,
12,000 from the tribe of Levi,
12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,
8 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun,
12,000 from the tribe of Joseph,
12,000 sealed from the tribe of Benjamin.

9 After this I looked, and there was a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, which no one could number, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hands.
10 And they cried out in a loud voice:
Salvation belongs to our God,
who is seated on the throne,
and to the Lamb!
11 All the angels stood around the throne, and along with the elders and the four living creatures they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God,
12 saying,
Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom
and thanksgiving and honor
and power and strength
be to our God forever and ever. Amen.
13 Then one of the elders asked me, “Who are these people in white robes, and where did they come from?”
14 I said to him, “Sir, you know.”
Then he told me: These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

15 For this reason they are before the throne of God,
and they serve him day and night in his temple.
The one seated on the throne will shelter them:
16 They will no longer hunger;
they will no longer thirst;
the sun will no longer strike them,
nor will any scorching heat.
17 For the Lamb who is at the center of the throne
will shepherd them;
he will guide them to springs of the waters of life,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

Revelation 6–7

Big Idea: God doesn’t promise you safety from the suffering. God promises to seal you through the suffering—and being sealed is better than being safe. 

1. The World Is Not Safe (Revelation 6:1–7:1)
2. In Christ, We Are Sealed (Revelation 7:2–14)
3. Because We Are Sealed, We Have a Shepherd Who Will Give Us Shelter (Revelation 7:15–17)

There is no other so sure and steady
My hope is held in your hand
When castles crumble
And breath is fleeting
Upon this Rock I will stand

Glory, glory, we have no other king
But Jesus Lord of all
Raise the anthem, our loudest praises ring
We crown him Lord of all

Your kindly rule has shattered and broken
The curse of sin’s tyranny
My life is hidden ’neath heaven’s shadow
Your crimson flood covers me

In all my sorrows, Jesus is better
Make my heart believe
In every victory, Jesus is better
Make my heart believe
Than any comfort, Jesus is better
Make my heart believe
More than all riches, Jesus is better
Make my heart believe
Our souls declaring, Jesus is better
Make my heart believe
Our song eternal, Jesus is better,
Make my heart believe