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  VICTORY
  by Carter Conlon
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Summary: This sermon by Pastor Carter Conlin emphasizes the anticipation
of a glorious moment in the future, drawing inspiration from Revelation
chapter 7 where a multitude from all nations worships before God. The
speaker shares a personal story about a football jersey gifted by a
converted man, symbolizing the victory and honor received through
Christ's work on the cross. The message highlights the assurance of
victory and celebration awaiting believers in heaven, free from fear of
the future.

Topics: "Hope in Eternal Glory", "Victory through Christ"
Scripture References: Revelation 7:9, Revelation 7:13, Luke 15:4, Romans 8:37, 1 Corinthians 15:57, Philippians 3:20

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This sermon by Pastor Carter Conlin emphasizes the anticipation of a
glorious moment in the future, drawing inspiration from Revelation
chapter 7 where a multitude from all nations worships before God. The
speaker shares a personal story about a football jersey gifted by a
converted man, symbolizing the victory and honor received through
Christ's work on the cross. The message highlights the assurance of
victory and celebration awaiting believers in heaven, free from fear of
the future.

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This is Pastor Carter Conlin, and welcome to my kitchen, where I get to
tell you again today why I'm not afraid of the days that we're living
in, or neither am I afraid of the days ahead of us, because there's a
glorious, glorious moment coming into your life and into mine. And let
me read it to you a little bit about it. It's going to look like this,
what is described in the Bible in Revelation chapter 7. John says these
words, After these things I looked, and behold, a great number, which no
one could number, of all nations, tribes, people, tongues, standing
before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and palm
branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying,
Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne and unto the Lamb.

Verse 13 says, Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, Who are
these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from? Now today, I
am sitting here with you, and I'm wearing a football jersey that was
given to me by Mark Gastineau, a famous defensive end from the New York
Jets, who has won all kinds of awards and kept all kinds of records, and
who sang and is intending on singing in our choir at times for a church,
a gloriously converted man. He gave me this jersey, and he told me, he
said, Now don't call it a sweater. He said, It's a jersey.

In hockey it's called a sweater, in football it's a jersey. So I'm
wearing Mark's jersey right now. He wrote on the front of the jersey,
According to Luke 15.4, you've got to find me, and you've got to keep me
in the flock.

So I'm going to be, I'm looking for you, Mark, and I love you, and I
thank God for you, and I look forward to having you back in the church
as you're getting through your bout with cancer. And God's going to give
you an even better voice in the choir in the future to do what he's
called you to do. But years ago, Mark, several years ago, Mark got an
award for all the hard work he had done.

He had established records, he had trained, he had fought hard, he had
done a lot of good for his sport. And he got an award for what he had
done. And so in the middle of a game, in the middle of the stadium, in
the middle of a game, where the Jets play, he got to go in the center of
the stadium, and he was honored by thousands and thousands of people,
and on national television as well, and he got a ring called the Ring of
Honor, and he was inducted into the Jets Hall of Fame.

And I got to be there with him as well as part of his new family in God.
It was an amazing experience. And so today I'm wearing the jersey, and I
got to experience the victory of somebody who did all the work for me.

And that's what it's like living for Christ and in Christ. He fought the
devil, he beat darkness, he died on a cross, he rose from the dead, and
he covered my sin. And one day I get to stand in heaven and shout
hallelujah with all the created beings entering in too and covered by
the victory of another.

So thank you, Mark, for reminding me of who I am in Christ and the great
celebration that's one day going to happen in heaven for all of us. I'm
not afraid of the future. The future is going to be absolutely glorious.

Thank God. See you again when we come back for devotions from my
kitchen.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/p4R5gKktNWo.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/carter-conlon/victory/
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