Talk

The Song That Consumes All Other Praise

Louie Giglio
May, 26, 2024

Louie Giglio joins us for another week of All Consuming Fire. Through studying Revelation 5, we see that the only one worthy of all of our worship and praise is the One who is and is to come.

Key Takeaway

We pray to ask God to intervene, believing that He can move, but we also pray as an act of worship.

The book of Revelation contains many different themes. Today, as we focus on chapter 5, we are honing in on God's worthiness.

We have the opportunity to see what's in God's throne room right now and to see what is and what is to come.

Five main ideas of Revelation 5:

1. God uses the foolish to confound the wise.

  • The Lion was a Lamb. The unfolding of judgment and restoration all hinged on the death, burial, and resurrection…in the garden; nevertheless, not my will but yours be done.

  • The power + wisdom of God is in the completeness of God.

2. God stores our prayers as the aroma of heaven.

  • Prayer isn't just for us to pray for circumstances, but to pray to a God in the midst of circumstances.

  • We don't need anyone else to go to God, we can go straight to Him.

  • Everyone has access to Him.

  • We're not living "in the reign" because we aren't always looking through the lens of eternity. We can tend to get caught up in our circumstances on earth.

3. The glory and grace of God fuel the worship of heaven.

  • We can always worship Him because of who He is.

  • We're praising Him because He is worthy + holy.

  • We worship Him because of who He is and what He's done.

4. The song of heaven is a global song.

  • He was slain for everyone—every nation, tribe, people, and tongue. (Revelation 7:9)

  • He created every human being for Him.

5. The worship of heaven consumes all other worship.

  • Will we be happy with all of the glory going to Jesus?

  • We need to get fit for heaven.

  • What gets consumed? All other praise.

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"Our prayers are praise to God because they are surrounding Him with the aroma of our faith and our trust in one who sits on the throne."
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Louie Giglio

Discussion Questions

  1. How often are you incorporating prayer into your daily rhythm?

  2. Do you believe that you have access to God right now? What is keeping you from seeking Him out?

  3. What circumstances are you facing keeping you from having an eternal perspective?

  4. Read 2 Corinthians 4:18. What are your takeaways (if any) from this verse?

  5. If someone were to ask you about the character of God, what adjectives would you use?

  6. How do these adjectives help you see the holiness of God and His worthiness?

  7. In what ways do you find yourself seeking the glory rather than giving God the glory?

  8. What gets consumed? Do you believe this for yourself? How does knowing this help you look to heaven?

Scripture References

The Scroll and the Lamb

1Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals. 2And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?” 3But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. 4I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside. 5Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

6Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. 7He went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne. 8And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people. 9And they sang a new song, saying:

“You are worthy to take the scroll

and to open its seals,

because you were slain,

and with your blood you purchased for God

persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.

10You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God,

and they will reign on the earth.”

11Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. 12In a loud voice they were saying:

“Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain,

to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength

and honor and glory and praise!”

13Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying:

“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb

be praise and honor and glory and power,

for ever and ever!”

14The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.

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“Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later.
1After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said,
“Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”
18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19For it is written:

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;

the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

20Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
22Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom,
23but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
24but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
10Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.