Revelation 5

Where it is preached

1. The Holy Spirit, or Power from on High · A. B. Simpson

   The Sevenfold Holy Ghost cites Revelation 5:6

   …horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth." Revelation 5:6. The book of Revelation is the last message of the Holy Ghost to the Church of Christ. It…

2. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

   Christ's Kingly Office cites Rev 5:5

   …of armour; he inserts the lion in his coat of arms. ‘The lion of the tribe of Judah.’ Rev 5:5. The text says ‘he is King of kings.’ He has a pre-eminence of all other kings, and is…

3. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

   The Atonement: God's Doctrine of the Atonement vs. Unitarian and Christian Science Doctrines of the Atonement cites Rev. 5:8-12

   …on the part of the angels. 5. The death of Christ is the central theme of heaven's song. Rev. 5:8-12 gives us a picture of heaven with its wonderful choir of ten thousand times ten thousand…

4. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

   The Deity of Jesus Christ cites Rev. 5:8

   …in John 5:23 that "All men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father." And in Rev. 5:8, 9, 12, 13 the four living creatures and the four and twenty elders are represented as…

5. A Short and Easy Method of Prayer · Jeanne Guyon

   Prayer and Sacrifice cites Rev. v. 13

   …is true prayer, which renders to God “honour, and glory, and power, for ever and ever” (Rev. v. 13). This prayer is the prayer of truth. It is worshipping the Father in spirit and in…

6. How to Bring Men to Christ · R. A. Torrey

   Dealing with Professed Skeptics and Infidels cites Rev. v. 13

   …Heb. i. 10, 3, we find divine offices attributed to Christ. c. In John v. 22‒23, compare Rev. v. 13; Heb. i. 6; Phil. ii. 10, we find it taught that Jesus Christ should be worshiped as God.…

7. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

   The First Stage cites Rev. 5:11

   …Christian: There we shall be with seraphims and cherubims, Isaiah 6:2; 1 Thess. 4:16,17; Rev. 5:11; creatures that will dazzle your eyes to look on them. There also you shall meet with…

8. Communion with God · John Owen

   Other consequential affections cites Rev. v. 13

   …consider him as God, equal with his Father, to whom all honour and obedience is due. So Rev. v. 13. But these things I have, not long since, opened in another treatise, dealing about the…

9. Communion with God · John Owen

   How the saints hold communion with Christ as to their acceptation with God cites Rev. v. 11–14

   …mystery of the cross, 1 Pet. i. 12, but worship and praise him always on this account: Rev. v. 11–14, “I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the living creatures and…

10. The Key Teachings of C. S. Lewis · Ochorus Originals

    Myth Became Fact cites REVELATION 5:5

    …world. The lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book. REVELATION 5:5 He also hoped that the stories might do something that sermons could not. Many people, he…

11. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Sixth Stage cites Rev. 5:8

    …that play upon their trumpets and harps, and sing their songs before the throne.Rev. 5:8; 14:2,3.] Mr. Honest: He was a very zealous man, as one may see by the relation you have…

12. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.5 The Fifth Commandment cites Rev 5: 13

    …8. ‘Blessing and honour and glory and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne.’ Rev 5: 13. Blessing God is honouring God. It lifts him up in the eyes of others, and spreads his…

13. The Master’s Indwelling · Andrew Murray

    Dead with Christ cites Revelation 5:12

    …that was slain, and through eternity they ever sing, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain” Revelation 5:12. Beloved brother, your Boaz, your Christ, your all-sufficient Savior, is a Man of whom…

14. The God of All Comfort · Hannah Whitall Smith

    Thanksgiving Versus Complaining cites Revelation 5:13

    …the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!'” (Revelation 5:13). The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part…

15. The Inner Chamber · Andrew Murray

    Learning of Christ cites Revelation 5: 9

    …the understanding, and opens the heart, and opens the seals. (Luke 24: 45, Acts 16: 14, Revelation 5: 9.) Christ is the living eternal Word, of which the written words are the human expression.…

16. The Key Teachings of R. A. Torrey · Ochorus Originals

    The Atonement cites REVELATION 5:9

    …redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. REVELATION 5:9 A gospel that is embarrassed by the cross, Torrey argued, is not the gospel of the Bible.…

17. The Key Teachings of Gareth Evans · Ochorus Originals

    Show Me Thy Glory cites REVELATION 5:12

    …receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. REVELATION 5:12 Another spirit Evans loves Caleb, who at eighty-five asked Joshua for the mountain where…

18. The Key Teachings of A. W. Tozer · Ochorus Originals

    Conclusion cites REVELATION 5:12

    …receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. REVELATION 5:12 We have covered a good deal of ground in fifteen short chapters, and it would be easy to…

19. The Key Teachings of Jonathan Edwards · Ochorus Originals

    The Excellency of Christ cites REVELATION 5:5–6

    ……and I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne …stood a Lamb as it had been slain. REVELATION 5:5–6 One of Edwards’s most beautiful sermons takes its text from the scene in heaven where the…

20. They Were Young – Book 3: Questions · Ochorus Originals

    Isaac Watts: Something Better to Sing cites Revelation 5:9

    …rewrote the psalms themselves as a Christian who had seen the cross might sing them. In Revelation 5:9, the scene behind that first hymn, the living creatures and elders around the throne…

21. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    April cites Revelation 5:6

    …be.” April 23 “Lo, in the midst of the throne ... stood a Lamb as it had been slain.” (Revelation 5:6) Why should our exalted Lord appear in his wounds in glory? The wounds of Jesus are his…

22. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 5 — Of the Modes of Supplementing Satisfaction cites Rev. 5:13

    …power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever,” (Rev. 5:13). This I readily admit; but what kinds of creatures do they suppose are here enumerated?…

23. The Big Story · Ochorus Originals

    All Things New cites Revelation 5:6

    …John saw “a Lamb who appeared to have been slain, standing in the center of the throne” (Revelation 5:6), and heard heaven sing, “You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those…

24. Real Questions – Book 3 · Ochorus Originals

    Isn’t Christianity a Western Religion? cites Revelation 5:9

    …the Lamb who “purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9). Other faiths sometimes treat one sacred language as the only proper one for worship.…

25. Real Questions – Book 3 · Ochorus Originals

    Will My Pet Go to Heaven? cites Revelation 5:13

    …lamb” (Isaiah 11:6). And John hears “every creature in heaven and on earth” praising God (Revelation 5:13). So the new creation will not be empty of animals. That much is clear. Where Christians…

26. Freedom of the Will · Jonathan Edwards

    Section II. The Acts of the Will of the Human Soul of Jesus Christ, Necessarily Holy, Yet Truly Virtuous, Praise-worthy, Rewardable, &c cites Rev. v. 8 – 12

    …the heavenly hosts were exceedingly mistaken, by the account that is given of them, (Rev. v. 8 – 12.) “The four beasts, and the four and twenty elders, fell down before the Lamb, having…

27. The Way Into the Holiest · F. B. Meyer

    The Blood of Christ cites Rev. v. 9

    …is as entirely done away as a debt when it is paid. Hallelujah! in heaven and on earth (Rev. v. 9; i. 5). But whilst this is an eternal truth with him who knows not our distinctions of…

28. Selected Sermons of George Whitefield · George Whitefield

    Thankfulness for Mercies Received, a Necessary Duty cites Rev. 5:12

    …receive power and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing.” Rev. 5:12. That then, which was man's perfection when time first began, and will be his employment…

29. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Without Christ cites Rev. v. 6

    …The meeting of the saints in heaven is called, “the marriage supper of the Lamb.” (Rev. v. 6; xxii. 3; xxi. 22, 23; vii. 17; xix. 9.) A heaven without Christ would not be the heaven…

30. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Christ Is All cites Rev. v. 6

    …there will be “the Lamb that was slain.” And “the Lamb shall be the light” of the place. (Rev. v. 6; xxi. 23.) The praise of the Lord Jesus will be the eternal song of all the inhabitants…

31. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Christ's Priestly Office cites Rev 5:9

    …book, and open the seals; for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood.’ Rev 5:9. Let our hearts and tongues join in concert to bless God, and let us show thankfulness to…

32. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Christ's Exaltation cites Rev 5:9

    …book and open the seals; for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood.’ Rev 5:9. III. God has exalted Christ in his ascension; for if he be ascended, then he is exalted.…

33. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Our Sins! cites Rev. v. 9

    …us to God by Thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.” (Rev. v. 9.) By this blood all the living saints of God have peace and hope now. By it they have…

34. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    The Cross of Christ cites Rev. v. 6

    …we are told, “and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain.” (Rev. v. 6.) Even in the midst of heavenly glory we get a view of Christ crucified. Take away the…