Revelation Sermon Illustrations, Free Preaching Ideas on Revelation

Watered-Down Social Gospel

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 25, 2011

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WATERED-DOWN SOCIAL GOSPEL Richard Niebuhr rightly challenged the liberal social gospel movement of watering down the offense of the cross with the scathing words, "A God without wrath brought me without sin into a ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 8:1-13

Tags: Judgment

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Child Slaves

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 2, 2011

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CHILD SLAVES Over two hundred million children around the world, some as young as four and five years old, are slaves. A majority of the children work in Asia, especially in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Indonesia--slaving away to make goods for us to buy in K-Mart and Wal-Mart... "Child slave ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 18:9-13

Tags: Greed

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

King Rat

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 2, 2011

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KING RAT James Clavell, King Rat: about a Japanese POW camp in which one prisoner, a pathetic loser before the war, who became the most powerful man in the camp by trading with the enemy and exploiting the misery of his fellows. He used to try to pressure the other prisoners to join him, calling ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 18:9-15

Tags: Apocalypse

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Pastoral Search Committee Of The First Lukewarm ... PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 30, 2012

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PASTORAL SEARCH COMMITTEE OF THE FIRST LUKEWARM CHURCH I was recently contacted by a pulpit committee that was interested in my ministry. I met with Chairman of the Disenchanted, Bro Tepid. He described his church; First Lukewarm Church of the Apathetic. “Nothing too boring, nothing too exciting. ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 3:14-22

Tags: Lukewarm

$3 Worth Of God

Contributed by Joe Bertone on Jul 23, 2012

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$3 WORTH OF GOD I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please. Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don’t want enough of God to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant, I want ecstasy, not ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 3:16

Tags: Lukewarm, Apathy, Commit

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Inescapable Judgment

Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 28, 2012

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INESCAPABLE JUDGMENT During the winter of 1951, a Montana café owner named Clarence Pellett pulled over to pick up a hitchhiker who appeared cold and frozen while walking during a snowstorm. Once in the car, the hitchhiker Frank Dryman pulled out a gun and ordered Pellett to get out of his ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 16:4-7

Tags: Judgment

Vernon And Joey

Contributed by Josh Hunt on Oct 13, 2012

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It is fitting that we begin with a true story involving three main characters: an elderly man nearing death, a kindhearted woman in robust health, and a deceased boy very much alive. Five months earlier, physicians had diagnosed sixty-five-year-old Vernon Samuels with terminal lung cancer. They ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 21:3-4

Tags: Death

Denomination: Baptist

When Is Jesus Coming?

Contributed by Tim Smith on May 11, 2014

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What do these dates have in common (1248, 1306, 1689, 1792, 1836, 1844, 1914, 1936, 1960, 1974, 1981, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 2011)? They all represent the times in which people predicted that the second coming of Christ would occur. No one, not even Jesus knows the exact time of Christ’s coming. ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 21:1-5

Tags: End Times, Second Coming

Denomination: Methodist

Talking About Heaven

Contributed by John Crowe on Jul 17, 2014

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My 5-year-old great – grandson, Travis, and his mother had a conversation about heaven. “Mom, I don’t think I want to go to heaven.” “Sure you do.” “No. I don’t think so.” “But why not?” “I think I’ll be hungry.” “No, baby. Jesus will make sure to feed you.” “I know, but Jesus feeds everybody fish, ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 21:1-5

Tags: Children, Heavenly Things

Denomination: Baptist

The Crown Of Life

Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Oct 7, 2014

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Finally, for those who are willing to lay their life at the altar, the reward by way of a Crown promised is not one of incorruptibility (I Cor 9:25) or rejoicing (I Thess 2:19) or glory (I Peter 5:4) or righteousness (2 Tim 4:8) but paradoxically the one of Life (Rev 2:10). Hallelujah!!! No wonder ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 2:10

Tags: Commandments, Cross, Character, Comforter

Denomination: *other

Joni Eareckson Tada's Wedding

Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 16, 2014

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Joni Eareckson Tada, who since a diving accident as a teenager has lived from a wheelchair, wrote about the day of her wedding: “I felt awkward as my girlfriends strained to shift my paralyzed body into a cumbersome wedding gown. No amount of corseting and binding my body gave me a good shape. ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 19:7-9

Tags: Wedding Supper, Wedding Ceremony, Jesus As Bridegroom

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Are We Forever Trapped?

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Feb 17, 2017

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METAL BARS OR MENTAL BARS... There is a story that comes from Russia of the BEAR THAT WAS FOREVER TRAPPED. There had been a great fire that burned miles of forest in Russia. Much of the wild life had been destroyed. There was a truck traveling along the edges of the destruction and a ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 3:7

Tags: Opportunity, Open Door

Denomination: Assembly Of God

For Posterity

Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 24, 2019

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. In 1914, British World War I soldier Pvt. Thomas Hughes wrote a letter to his wife, sealed it in a ginger ale bottle, and tossed it into the English Channel. He died two days later fighting in France. Fast forward to 1999 when a fisherman found the bottle in the River Thames. It was too late to ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 1:4-8

Tags: Future, Legacy, Memories, Posterity

Denomination: Independent/Bible

A Dying Church

Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Oct 13, 2019

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John MacArthur tells this awesome story: There once was an old church in England. A sign on the front of the building read, ''We preach Christ crucified.'' After a time, ivy grew up and obscured the last word and it read, 'We preach Christ.'' The ivy grew some ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 3:1-10

Tags: Church, Revival, Repentance, Mission

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The First Thing Bartimaeus Saw

Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 30, 2020

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Think of what Bartimaeus saw when he received his sight! Think of the wonders of seeing for the first time a crowd of human beings just like himself, the walls and palm-tree groves of Jericho, the sky, so blue above him, and the hills of Moab in the distance. But that was not the first thing that ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 21:1-7

Tags: Death, Heaven, Miracles

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

None Like To Jesus

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009

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NONE LIKE TO JESUS Charles Spurgeon said, "Climb ye up to heaven, and behold the snow-white host, glittering like the sun in spotless purity. I ask them whence came they? The reply is that they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. It is most true that Jesus saves ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 19:1-21

Tags: Atonement

One Time I Went To A My Favorite Mexican ...

Contributed by Dj Castilleja on Jun 11, 2007

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One time I went to a my favorite Mexican restaurant. I just couldn’t wait to get there. My stomach was growling and my mouth was salivating. I sat down in my favorite booth and ordered my favorite Mexican dish. Minutes later they brought it out. Cheese enchiladas with sides of beans and rice. ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 3:15-16

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational