Honor Your Mama: Jan 4, 2026

January 4, 2026
Honor Your Mama: Jan 4, 2026

CENTRAL TEXT: Revelation 19:6-8 & 21:1-4, 22

Revelation 19:6-8
6 Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns. 7 Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; 8 it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”—for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.

Revelation 21:1-4, 22
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.”

22 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 


CALL TO WORSHIP: Revelation 5:11-13

LEADER: Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, 12 saying with a loud voice, 

ALL: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!”

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

ALL: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might for ever and ever!” 


NT READING: Ephesians 5:21-27  

21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. The Word of the Lord

ALL: Thanks be to God


BENEDICTION: Revelation 22:17,21

LEADER: 17 The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.

21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all.

ALL: Amen!

Illustrations:


Books / Docs / Sermons

Jewish Wedding Apparel” by Maurice Lamm 
Purification of the Bride-to-Be” by The School of Mary 
Ancient Jewish Marriage” by Hayyim Schauss 
The Ancient Jewish Wedding: And the Return of Messiah for His Bride” by Jamie Lash 
Westminster Shorter Catechism” 
Description and History of Masadas 

Charles Spurgeon’s sermon “The Marriage Supper of the Lamb” 

RC Sproul’s sermon “The Marriage Supper of the Lamb” 

Steve Brown’s sermon “The Marriage Supper of the Lamb” 

Voodie Baucham sermon “Last and Final Call” in the Revelation sermon series 

Bruce Gore Sunday School teaching in the Revelation Series

#52 “Turning Point” 

#53 “The Armies of Heaven” 

#54 “Unfinished Business

#55 “Reigning with Christ” 

#56 “Satan's Doom

#57 “The Great White Throne” 

#58 “A New Heaven and Earth” 

#59 “The Beauty of Holiness” 

#60 “Healing of Nations