Sermon Outline:

The Glorious Writer (When Jesus Writes To Your Church) | Revelation 1:9–18, ESV

• His Sovereign Authority (Revelation 1:9–13)

⁹ I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. ¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet ¹¹ saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.” ¹² Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, ¹³ and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest.

• His Sinless Purity (Revelation 1:14)

¹⁴ The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,

• His Searching Gaze (Revelation 1:14)

¹⁴ The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,

• His Smoldering Feet (Revelation 1:15)

¹⁵ his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.

• His Strong Voice (Revelation 1:15)

¹⁵ his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.

• His Strict Judgment (Revelation 1:16)

¹⁶ In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.

• His Shining Face (Revelation 1:16)

​¹⁶ In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.