Prepare your heart for our Sunday Morning Gathering by looking through these suggestions that will assist you in making the most of our time together.

You will find tangible suggestions for putting scripture to action in your personal life and in our corporate body, links to the songs we will sing, and lyrics for you to prepare for our corporate singing.

Sermon Text for Sunday: Revelation 6:12-17

Critically Think

• Read Revelation 6:12-17. Read the context again from 6:1-17. What is the focus of the judgments in these seals being opened? Who is the one executing this judgment?
• List all of the objects of creation that are impacted when the sixth seal is opened. Do these appear to be literal or figurative?
• Why are the stars falling compared to a fig tree? How does this help us understand this verse correctly?
• How many people groups are in verse 15? Could this be significant?
• Why would these people plead with the mountains that are “being moved out of their places” in verse 14 to fall on them?  What state of mind are these people in? Would their response be "belief" or "unbelief"?

Prayerfully Meditate

• Examine Matthew 24 and look for similarities to this seal in regard to impacts on the earth.
• Who are these people that know they are hiding from “him who sits on the throne” and “from the wrath of the Lamb?”  How would these people know these things?
• What does it mean “who is able to stand” in verse 17?  Read Joel 2:11, Nahum 1:6, and Malachi 3:2 and the verses immediately surrounding them. What is the theme of all of the passages?
• What do we think of when the "sky is being rolled up"? Read Revelation 20:11 and 21:1 and compare it to Revelation 6:14 with the reference to the sky being rolled up.  What are the differences in this passage?

Intentionally Act

• Thinking through prior sermons and the understanding that the church has been taken up already, what should our response be to these events?
• How should we pray through the text of the sixth seal of judgment?
• How are we responding to current events in light of understanding the coming judgment? Is there an area we need to repent?
• How are we responding in light of this seal to those who are unbelievers? Neighbors? Co-workers? Children in our home? Government authorities?
• What ways should we respond in urgency to the coming seals of judgment in regards to our daily lives? Church-planting? Discipleship? Evangelism?
• Click the links below to find the lyrics and recordings of the songs planned for our gathering this Sunday; practice the songs, study the lyrics and sing together.
• Pray for those leading our corporate gathering this week and for the Holy Spirit’s work as the Word of God is further explained and applied: Dawson Bryant: music; Terry Engling: elder prayer & scripture reading; Bret Capranica: teaching.

Songs for Sunday

Morning Gathering

• Crown Him With Many Crowns (sheetmusic)
• Nothing but the Blood of Jesus (sheetmusic)
• O My Soul, Arise (sheetmusic)
• There Is a Fountian (sheetmusic)
• Whate'er My God Ordains Is Right (sheetmusic)

Lyrics

Lyrics Morning Gathering - ... by Summit Woods Baptist Church