Sending Sunday
Worthy Is the Lamb
Revelation 5:1–14
Edward Rangel · August 9, 2026
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No created power can open God’s scroll.
No ruler, army, scholar, or hero is worthy.
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John wept because no one was worthy.
A closed scroll meant God’s purpose remained unfulfilled by creation.
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John heard of a Lion—and saw a Lamb standing as slain.
Christ conquered through sacrifice.
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Revelation fixes our attention on God’s throne.
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The sealed scroll rests in God’s right hand.
Its opening moves history toward Christ’s victory.
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Who is worthy to open the scroll?
Revelation 5 answers with the Lion who conquered as the slain Lamb.
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No created person was worthy.
Revelation 5:1–4
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1 I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a book written inside and on the back, sealed up with seven seals. 2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals?"
Revelation 5:1-2 · NASB
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History belongs to God, not to earthly rulers.
The scroll cannot be seized by ambition or force.
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God’s purpose requires worthiness, not ambition.
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3 And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look into it. 4 Then I began to weep greatly because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look into it;
Revelation 5:3-4 · NASB
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Creation could not supply the one God’s purpose required.
No angel, ruler, conqueror, or departed hero could step forward.
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Earthly power cannot carry the weight of our hope.
Nations rise and fall; every human hand bears weakness and sin.
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The Lion conquered as the slain Lamb.
Revelation 5:5–7
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and one of the elders said to me, "Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals."
Revelation 5:5 · NASB
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9 "Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He couches, he lies down as a lion, And as a lion, who dares rouse him up? 10 " The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes, And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
Genesis 49:9-10 · NASB
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Jesus approaches the throne as the One who has overcome.
He is the promised King.
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And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.
Revelation 5:6 · NASB
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The Lamb bears death’s marks, yet He stands alive.
Christ’s victory came through sacrifice and resurrection.
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The Lamb possesses complete power and complete sight.
He can carry out God’s purpose.
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And He came and took the book out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne.
Revelation 5:7 · NASB
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The Father entrusts the scroll to the obedient Son.
He obeyed unto death and overcame.
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The Lion’s victory is revealed in the Lamb’s wounds.
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Heaven measures victory by the Lamb who gave Himself.
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The Lamb purchased a kingdom from every people.
Revelation 5:8–10
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When He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Revelation 5:8 · NASB
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The prayers of suffering saints remain before God.
They have not disappeared unheard.
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And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
Revelation 5:9 · NASB
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Heaven praises Christ because He was slain and conquered.
The cross stands at the center of His worthiness.
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Christ’s blood purchases people from every human family.
Race, language, class, and national borders do not limit His claim.
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The Lamb has a claim upon every person we meet.
Every campus, workplace, neighborhood, and nation contains souls for whom Christ died.
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"You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth."
Revelation 5:10 · NASB
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Christ has already made His redeemed people a kingdom.
They serve God as priests under His present rule.
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We go because the Lamb is worthy.
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All creation declared the Lamb’s worth.
Revelation 5:11–14
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11 Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, 12 saying with a loud voice,
Revelation 5:11-12 · NASB
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Countless voices spoke one confession.
Power, riches, wisdom, might, honor, glory, and blessing belong to Christ.
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The Lamb is worthy of everything we are and possess.
His claim reaches every part of life.
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13 And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, 14 And the four living creatures kept saying, "Amen." And the elders fell down and worshiped.
Revelation 5:13-14 · NASB
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Heaven answers the Lamb with worship.
The proper response on earth is the same.
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Sending Sunday centers on Jesus Christ.
The slain Lamb lives, reigns, and deserves our worship wherever we go.
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Decide now what the Lamb is worth.
Give Him worship, purity, confession, and gospel witness.
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Those who remain are not spectators.
Pray, support gospel preaching, speak, and keep worship central.
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Let our worship, obedience, and witness agree with heaven’s song.
Revelation 5:12
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Receive the gospel of the Lamb in obedient faith.
Hear, believe, repent, confess Christ, and be baptized for forgiveness.
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Worthy is the Lamb.
Revelation 5:12
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