Saints at the Throne
Tony Nester
Revelation 7:1-17
Today is All Saints Sunday, and we do mean ALL Saints - believers in Christ Jesus from every tribe and nation, from every color of skin, from every congregation where Jesus is Lord, from every church with high or low liturgy or with traditional or contemporary worship, from every gathering when in the thousands or only two or three in Jesus' Name, from every Bible study group open to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit whether they meet in a restaurant or home or school or prison.
And more than all of these, we mean believers from every generation, from every age, from every pivotal moment in the History of Salvation and from the long stretches of time when God has seemed to be silent or absent.
We mean saints who have had mystical experiences like Pascal during his night of fire[i], and saints like Martin Luther who subjected every point of doctrine to the reasoned analysis of Scripture.
We mean saints like Roman Catholic Thomas Merton who rooted himself inside a monastery and those like German Lutheran Dietrich Bonhoeffer whose obedience to Christ led him into action to oppose Hitler's evil tyranny over Germany.
Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Gestapo and then hanged on April 9, 1945 in the Flossenburg Concentration Camp. And so along with him we remember all who have been martyred for the cause of Christ, beginning with the stoning of Stephen as recorded in Acts 7 until our own day when in 2017 99 Egyptian Christians were killed by extremist groups with 47 killed on Palm Sunday.
And let us not forget that in our own country in 1963 the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed by four members of the Ku Klux Clan who planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite beneath the church steps. The explosion killed Addie Collins, Cynthia Wesley, and Carole Robertson - three fourteen-year-old girls, and eleven-year-old Carol McNair. All martyrs for the cause of Christ. The ...
Tony Nester
Revelation 7:1-17
Today is All Saints Sunday, and we do mean ALL Saints - believers in Christ Jesus from every tribe and nation, from every color of skin, from every congregation where Jesus is Lord, from every church with high or low liturgy or with traditional or contemporary worship, from every gathering when in the thousands or only two or three in Jesus' Name, from every Bible study group open to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit whether they meet in a restaurant or home or school or prison.
And more than all of these, we mean believers from every generation, from every age, from every pivotal moment in the History of Salvation and from the long stretches of time when God has seemed to be silent or absent.
We mean saints who have had mystical experiences like Pascal during his night of fire[i], and saints like Martin Luther who subjected every point of doctrine to the reasoned analysis of Scripture.
We mean saints like Roman Catholic Thomas Merton who rooted himself inside a monastery and those like German Lutheran Dietrich Bonhoeffer whose obedience to Christ led him into action to oppose Hitler's evil tyranny over Germany.
Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Gestapo and then hanged on April 9, 1945 in the Flossenburg Concentration Camp. And so along with him we remember all who have been martyred for the cause of Christ, beginning with the stoning of Stephen as recorded in Acts 7 until our own day when in 2017 99 Egyptian Christians were killed by extremist groups with 47 killed on Palm Sunday.
And let us not forget that in our own country in 1963 the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed by four members of the Ku Klux Clan who planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite beneath the church steps. The explosion killed Addie Collins, Cynthia Wesley, and Carole Robertson - three fourteen-year-old girls, and eleven-year-old Carol McNair. All martyrs for the cause of Christ. The ...
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