We had a nice question time before tea and then for his final message to us Liam Goligher, having expounded Revelation 4 and 5, stood back a little from the text and sought to make a more general application. His three points were Know God as the Creator and Redeemer, worship God as the Creator and Redeemer and Serve God as the Creator and Redeemer. He began by speaking on God's general and special revelation and at the end was very helpful on the subject of common grace and the importance of understanding it. On the way we were taught that worship should centre on God as Creator as well as Redeemer. We should see worship as the task of giving expression to the worship of creation. Of course, worship is only possible through a mediator and that is Christ (that is his role in these chapters). This Mediator is worshipped as God throughout Revelation. There were other good things too including a quotation from Luther's Large Catechism saying that if your heart "cleaves to anything else, of which it expects more good and help than of God, and does not take refuge in Him, but in adversity flees from Him, then you have an idol, another god."
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