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This section of Scripture punched me in the gut this week.
Truly.
It literally brought me to my knees as a rebuke.
So today, I’m going to do you a favor and pass on the rebuke I received from God to you.
And now, some of you might be really nervous about what I’m about to say.
I want to pray, then we’ll jump into the text.
Pray for open hearts.
Alright.
Let’s read Revelation 10:1-7 and we’ll save the rebuke for the end.
This angel looks a lot like how God is described with his rainbow and shining face, and pillars of fire and voice like a lion.
He can speak on behalf of God here.
He speaks with God’s authority.
Right foot on land, left foot on sea: declaring his message to the whole world.
He shouts, seven thunder sound.
I think these are judgments, but honestly, I can’t prove it.
Three of four sevens are judgments, what do you think this fourth seven probably is? Why?
What number does this put judgments at if this is true?
Why is this significant?
Completion attached to the earth.
But now we’re getting into the point here.
This next four verses are what punched me in the gut.
Let’s read:
Maybe you’re sitting there going, “what was so hard about that?” It’s all in the details.
Let me set the stage here.
We’ve got this powerful angel here standing ready to proclaim a message to the whole world and John is told to take this scroll that the angel has, and when he does, he’s instructed to “take it and eat it.”
That’s not exactly what he’s told, and in the original language that the Holy Spirit inspired John to write, we find the gut punch.
One of the things I do in preparation to preach my passage every week is to translate it from Greek to English.
And as I was, I came across this phrase, “Take it and eat it.”
In Greek, it says, “Λαβε και καταφαγη”.
In my study, I’m familiar with the word “φαγη” which literally just means, “eat.”
But this word is different.
This word means “to ravenously devour.”
Picture someone who’s starving getting their first good meal in a while.
They devour it.
And that’s the command of John here.
The scroll is the Gospel (the word of God).
And the angel says it’s going to be sweet in his mouth, then turn his stomach sour.
Gospel is sweet and sour.
Jesus comes to save.
By default if people are being saved, some are condemned.
This is why it is sweet and sour.
If there is salvation, there’s something to be saved from, and there are people who are not saved.
You are what you eat.
Marinated steaks when you grill them give off the aroma of the things they soak up.
What happens with you when you feel the heat in your life?
Does the Gospel come out of you because that’s what you’ve soaked in?
Or something else?
John is commanded to preach because he’s consumed, he marinated in the Gospel.
There are two faults we can fall into here: proclaiming without consuming, and consuming without proclaiming.
So here’s the gut punch: John’s experience should cause us to ask a question.
Do I devour the Word of God like a starving person?
Do I care about God’s word that much?
For me, the honest answer had to be, “No, Lord.
Please give me greater faith to desire the things you desire.”
Some of you might be frustrated with your lack of spiritual growth, and there’s a reaping and sowing relationship there.
The decisions we make have consequences.
Some people eat horribly.
They’re on the “Ito” diet.
Their whole diet ends in “itos”- cheetos, fritos, doritos, taquitos.
It’s the itos diet.
And maybe that’s your diet.
And you’re going, “yeah, my health is not good, I feel like Satan is attacking me.”
No this is not demonic suffering.
This is self-inflicted “ito” injury.
You need to eat something not cooked by a high school kid handed to you in the car after you ordered it from a talking box.
You need to go find a vegetable and at least pray about consuming it.
Start somewhere.
Baby steps.
Some of you are on a spiritual “Itos diet”.
You read a verse or chapter and you never let it get past the moment.
You’re not eating a healthy diet.
You just want a fast food fix.
If it’s pre-packaged, even better.
I don’t have time to stop and sit down and really enjoy a meal.
But some of you are on this diet and you need to slow down.
You need to sit down and pour over the banquet set before you that is the word of God.
One of the most frustrating thing for pastors to hear is, “I just don’t feel like I’m being fed.”
It’s not my job to feed you!
It’s my job to set out the banquet and teach you how to cook.
YOU have to pick up your utensils and eat.
I cannot shove meals down your throat.
That’s not how this works!
And maybe you don’t have a hunger for the whole banquet of God because you’re on the “itos” diet.
Itos diet is better than nothing.
It’s better than not eating.
If you’ve seen the images of some of the victims in the concentration camps after WWII.
They just look so gaunt and thin and emaciated.
Just skeletal in appearance.
And some of you look like that spiritually.
Because you NEVER open your Bible, you never eat ANYTHING!
You might say, “Pastor Andrew, I don’t know.
I’m just not fired up about the Gospel.
I just don’t have the energy to share it with anyone.”
And I would suggest to you that maybe it’s because you’re not eating.
You have no energy because you’re not filling yourself up.
Let me let you in on a secret:
My job is not to fill you up with the Scriptures.
Let me explain:
When Rebecca and I go to visit my family in Colorado Springs, there’s a town called Limon, and in it, we usually top off.
Don’t need to.
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