PREPARE YOUR HEART FOR THE SERMON BY LOOKING THROUGH THESE SUGGESTIONS THAT WILL ASSIST YOU IN MAKING THE MOST OF OUR TIME TOGETHER HEARING GOD'S WORD.

You will find suggestions for thinking more critically through the passage, meditating more intently on the text, and prayerfully seeking wisdom to deepen your understanding of the passage to be preached this Sunday.

Carefully Think

• Read Revelation 4:1-6. Where is this scene taking place? Who have we seen so far in this chapter, and what has been described?
• Compare the descriptions of the living creatures in verses 7-8 to the vision in Ezekiel chapters 1 and 10 and the vision in Isaiah 6. What is similar? What is different?
• Is a specific person of the Trinity being praised in this passage, or is it the Trinity as a whole? If a specific person, who?
• There are three sets of threes in the living creatures’ praise in verse 8. What are they? What is their significance?
• Where have these descriptions of God been used so far in Revelation 1-3?
• What descriptions of God are repeated from the living creatures’ praise in verses 8-9 to the elders’ praise in verses 10-11? What actions of God are emphasized?

• What two main reasons do the elders give for why God is worthy of such praise?

Prayerfully Meditate

• What are the four descriptions of the four creatures in verse 7, and what might they symbolize?
• How are God’s holiness and His timeless self-existence central to His glory, particularly in the book of Revelation?
• What is emphasized by God being repeatedly called “Him who sits on the throne?” How is this idea seen throughout Revelation?
• What does worship involve for the 24 elders? How do their words and actions show worship to God’s worthiness in particular?
• Why do the elders tie God’s worthiness for praise to His act of creation? How does this shape our own view of God as we worship Him?