We Won't Need the Sun (Revelation 21:9-14, 21-26)

Summer Worship Series, Sunday August 30, 2020

Under the Sun Series, Week 12, We Won’t Need the Sun

Readings for this Week:

First Lesson: Isaiah 25:1-9: The Mountain of the Lord in Isaiah’s prophecy describes the joy of living with God in this life and living with him forever in heaven.

Psalm 46: Psalm 46 provides comfort for God’s people during difficult times, inspiring Luther’s famous hymn, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.”

Second Lesson and Sermon Text:  Revelation 21:9-14, 21-26. The Apostle John saw heaven portrayed in various ways in his vision. Here, it is described as a place that needs no sun because God is its light.

Gospel:  Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43.  Jesus’ parable of the Wheat and the Weeds is both a warning concerning the coming judgment and comfort for those God will welcome into heaven through faith in his Son.

Sermon:  We Won’t Need the Sun: Revelation 21:9-14, 21-26.

The first lesson from Scripture in our “Under the Sun” worship series started in Genesis with the world in darkness, before the sun was even created.

Today, we end our summer worship series with the last verses of the Bible that speak about the sun that tell us about a world without the sun. This one is not dark like the world was before light was created. This world is full of the light of God’s glory and his grace. This is heaven where we won’t need the sun.

Heaven is a perfect place of God’s promise, and it is also a perfect place of God’s presence and we will live there with God. All who dwell there live in the light of the glory of God, the brilliant, radiant, bright shining glory.

This is the reason that heaven does not need a sun. The glory of God has given it light. Sin is gone. Shame is gone. All that is left is the perfect holiness that God has given to us in Jesus, and so we will bask in the full and unveiled glory of God.

Pastor Nathan Kassulke