Living Waters of Grace for June 1st, 2026

This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark

Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,

County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he

continues teaching through God's Word.

I love that word uttermost, don't you?

Not part way, only maybe. Not real, sure, not complete.

No. God is able to save to the

uttermost those who come to Him through Christ.

And I love the promise Christ is always living to make

intercession for us. And how much more as we study

that we need to be making intercession for one another,

not grow weary in well doing or faint in our mind praying for

each other by name. Did you know that Jesus prays

for you? The Holy Spirit dwells within

you, making Jesus your intercessor.

Intercessor isn't a fancy word for translator.

Jesus doesn't just make your prayers sound prettier to God.

He actually prays on your behalf.

He prays for you by name to God. Today, Pastor Clark teaches the

importance of your prayers. You must pray for others by name

so Jesus can lift up those prayers by name specifically for

that person. Our prayers have true power when

given to the Lord. Now here's Pastor Clark in the

Book of Revelation chapter 21 with today's edition of Living

Revelation 21 · chapter mention

Waters of Grace. Revelation chapter 21, we're

Revelation 21 · chapter mention

going to pick up in verse 9 and go to verse 21.

Let's read that. Then one of the seven angels who

had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to

me and talked with me, saying, Come, I will show you the bride,

the Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the

Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the

great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from

God, having the glory of God. Her light was like a most

precious stone, like a Jasper stone, clear as crystal.

Also she had a great and high wall with 12 gates and 12 angels

at the gates, names written on them, which are the names of the

12 tribes of the children of Israel, 3 gates on the E, 3

gates on the N, 3 gates on the South, and three gates on the

West. Now the wall of the city had 12

foundations, and on them were the names of the 12 apostles of

the land. And he who talked with me had a

gold Reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.

The city is laid out as a square, its length is as great

as its breadth, and he measured the city with the Reed 12,000

furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height

are equal. Then he measured its wall 144

cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an Angel.

The construction of its wall was of Jasper, and the city was pure

gold like clear glass. The foundation of the wall of

the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones.

The first foundation was Jasper, the second sapphire, the third

Chaldoni, the 4th emerald, the 5th Sardonics, the 6th Sardis,

the 7th crystallite, the 8th barrel, the 9th Topaz, the 10th

Christoph phrase, 11th Jacinis, and the 12th amethyst.

The 12 gates were 12 pearls, each individual gate was of 1

Pearl, and the street of this city was pure gold, like

transparent glass. That sound like a place you want

to go to? In verse 9, it talks about this

Angel and this is the same Angel that we remember studying about

earlier who was involved with pouring out the the bowls of the

wrath of God, the last plagues upon the face of the earth.

Now he has this privilege to introduce the apostle John to

the beauty of this eternal Kingdom that is going to descend

from the heavens one day, the new Jerusalem.

The apostle John had the privilege to see this thing

actually come to pass, to come to being.

And we see there's a much more detailed gaze as we were reading

the earlier verses in Revelation, verse one and two of

chapter 21. This is what he saw.

I saw this new new heaven and the new earth, for the 1st

heaven and the first earth had passed away also.

There was no more sea. And I, John, saw the holy City,

New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a

bride or dorn for her husband. What a beautiful experience this

man had. Can you imagine what he saw?

It would be hard to explain in human terms what he actually was

seeing because it was something that no one has ever seen

before. And so in his writings, he's

going to write about it in ways that we might be able to connect

with as far as physical matter. But he's seeing something that

is miraculous and eternal. And what's interesting and how

John writes this book through the direction of the Holy Spirit

is similar to how he work with Moses when he put Genesis

together. But in the 1st chapter of

Genesis, God works through Moses and gives an overview of the

creation. And then in the 2nd chapter, he

goes into great detail as to what it is that he's describing.

In the 1st chapter of Genesis. We see this also the same kind

of format that the the Holy Spirit is using with John as he

is writing this 21st chapter of Revelation.

Now we understand that what he's seeing here is a glorious

Kingdom that's coming down out of heaven.

And if you turn over to Matthew, you think about Jesus when he's

being tempted by the devil in the wilderness, Matthew chapter

Matthew 4:8

4, verse 8. And it says again, the devil

took him up on an exceeding high mountain and showed him all the

kingdoms of the world and their glory.

And he said to them, him, All these things I will give you, if

you will fall down and worship me.

And Jesus said to him, Away with you, Satan, for it is written,

Ye shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you

serve. And the devil left him, and

behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

How ridiculous it would be, right?

When you think about the context of the devil to come to the King

of Kings and Lord of Lords and tempting him with the puny

kingdoms of this world that are going to pass away.

The Lord is omnipresent and he's also omniscient.

He knows everything. And so his, he's looking at the

Satan's temptation here. I'm sure he's like, if you could

only see and realize what is yet to come.

Whatever you have to tempt me with cannot even come in the

faintest sense near to what the Father has planned for those who

love him. And when you think about

temptation in your own life, we're all tempted, aren't we?

And the devil is very cunning and he tempts us with very

beautiful things, things that are very alluring and exciting.

It wouldn't be a temptation if it was ugly and discouraging,

disappointing or boring. God the Father allows the devil

to come with something that's very enticing.

And when the devil comes, we have to realize that whatever

we're being tempted with, God has something so much more

beautiful and so much more wonderful for each of us as we

walk with the Lord. And so that's why the Bible

tells us there's no temptation. It's taking you, but such as is

common into man. But God will provide a way of

escape from the temptation. You might be able to bear it.

So I trust as we're being tempted by the devil, we'll be

like the Lord and we'll tell the devil that this to go away.

We're not interested in his lies and his deceptions.

But we see this new Jerusalem through the eyes of the apostle

coming down suspended over the earth.

The Bible tells us when the first creation was designed by

the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It's like a stone cut without

human hands. There will be no physical

manifestation of human beings involved in the making and

development of this glorious new city to Jerusalem.

It's coming down. We read in verse 11 it says

having the glory of God. Her light was like a most

precious stone, like a Jasper stone, clear as crystal.

And you might want to underline in your Bible that he's saying

it was like this. He's not saying it was exactly

that, but he's saying, the only way I can describe this to you

is that it reminds me of something I saw on the Earth,

something I saw sometime in my own experience.

He says it's like, and this comes from the theological term

called anthropomorphic, and this is a term that means something

that is described or viewed in terms of the language,

experiences and knowledge of man.

And so John is saying this is what the city looks like to me,

and if you were there, you might have a different way of

describing it. He talks about this first

beautiful stone, Jasper. I don't know if you've ever seen

a Jasper stone. I never have.

My wife has seen just about any kind of precious stone and

mineral and gold and silver that exists 'cause she's always

trying to kind of drag me into jewelry stores.

They'll look at all these different beautiful things.

I can't tell one versus the other.

All I know is when she gets what she has a desire for, and it's

in our budget and we prayed about it and God permits it, she

puts it on and she loves it. You know, and women have all

those different things on. I just have $125.00 silver Kmart

ring I've had for 40 years now. I wanted to get a, what did I

want to get? A plastic ring.

They had yellow, orange, red and green.

I was a hippie. So I figured, hey, they're like

2 bucks, put that on. That's good to go.

Cindy says no way. Then I wanted to get like a

leather band and she said no, that'll fall apart.

We can't get that. So we, we made a deal.

I think they were two for 45. So but, but since that time

she's upgraded. She's got those things like

Revelation talks about on her hand now and I'm I'm still

wearing this, you know, but anyway, I, I think of this

Jasper and what it reflects the beauty and how excited he is

about what it is. He's seeing something like he's

never seen before, clear as crystal.

And I think about what it says in First Corinthians chapter 2,

1 Corinthians 2 · chapter mention

verse nine. I hath not seen nor ear heard

nor entered into the heart of man the things that God has

prepared for those who love him. So I, I trust today you're

getting excited about what we're studying and realizing what God

has prepared for you. I mean, salvation is a wonderful

thing. We're going to be saved.

We're going to be in heaven forever, but it isn't just going

to be a a normal place that you've seen before.

I believe when we go there, we're going to be so excited

throughout all eternity. We're going to say, did you see

that, Barry? Did you see that?

Bethany, come over here, look over here, look at this.

Every day. It's a new discovery, something

that will just blow our minds. And I think about how difficult

it must have been for John to be able to express in human terms

what it was he was seeing. It would be like Baptista.

Baptista is a former witch doctor in the Yanomano tribe.

When he became a Christian and he got born again and got saved,

he began to get discipled. He became an elder in his

church. And when Mike and Gary would

come to the US to speak to the major colleges, anthropology

departments, they would bring Baptista so he could speak to

them through the communication and the translation of Mike and

Gary to explain to the people, the listeners, what is life like

in the jungles with the Yanomanos.

And of course, he would describe some things to the people here

that like, man, what's he talking about?

I never heard about anything like that.

Never saw anything like that. And he would put it in terms

through the interpreters that we might be able to relate to.

Well, when Baptista came to America, Mike told me it was

wild. He, he first of all, gets a huge

bird that he never saw in his life called a jet airplane.

He gets in and he's like, this thing's actually going to fly.

And Mike's explaining to him how it's going to fly and what the

wings do and everything. And so he gets in and he's like

totally stoked. I mean, never, never, never

comprehended there was such a way of transportation.

He comes to America and he lands and he gets in these vehicles

and he sees, you know, cars everywhere and everywhere he's

looking, large skyscrapers and buildings.

He, he just can't begin to comprehend everything he's

seeing. It's like overload, the senses

of what he's encountering, and that's what it's going to be

like when we go to heaven. It's going to be sensual in the

sense of overload. We're not going to be able to be

able to take it all in. It's just going to be

overwhelming. But Baptista would have to go to

eventually back to the jungles and they would ask him what is

it like there in America? And he would use a term, what we

would call jungle pocentric, and he would try to communicate in

terms of jungle life what he had seen in in this culture, in this

country. You can imagine how difficult

that would be. He might describe a Boeing 747

with its flaps down as an elephant flying with people on

it, a huge elephant flying with people on it.

But we see here on this day, this heavenly city in chapter

21, verse four. And we covered this several

weeks ago. Last week we covered the

importance of fasting and I trust that God is working in

your hearts regarding fasting. Something we got to continually

pray about and encourage each other to do, especially for the

obstacles in our lives that Jesus said cannot be moved

without prayer and fasting. But it says in verse 4, And God

will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

There shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.

There shall be no more pain for the former things that passed

away. As a pastor, I sense your pain,

your sorrow, your heartache many times, and I'm sure you sense

mine as well as God's servant. But I'm looking so forward to

that day that I won't have to comfort anybody anymore from the

horror of tragedy, of the ruination of people's lives

because of sin and bad choices and mistakes.

I won't have to be with someone at a Funeral Home.

I won't have to give a funeral. I won't have to carry the

burden, nor will you, of the heartache of loved ones who have

gone into eternity, especially those who have not received

Jesus Christ and will have to suffer the consequences for all

eternity. But it'll be so wonderful to be

able to see you there with smiles on your faces as wide as

your grin can possibly be. Never discouragement anymore.

No more sorrow, No more suffering, no more pain or

anguish. No more hopelessness.

I mean, what God has planned for us guys is this beyond our

ability to take in. You won't have your wife broken

hearted crying, or your husband discouraged or disappointed.

You won't see your child coming home from school because people

said mean things about him or a bully beat him up.

You won't have rejection. You won't have depression.

You won't have sickness or disease or illness or

addictions. It'll all be pure and holy and

perfect. That's what God has prepared for

those who love Him. John then begins to describe the

physicality of this incredible holy city of God and verse 12,

this Great Wall with 12 gates, 12 angels at the gates, and

names written on them, which are the names of the 12 tribes of

the children of Israel. The 12 gates represent the 12

tribes of Israel and the 12 foundations represent the 12

apostles. And what's beautiful in this

particular experience here in this place is that the group of

people that are going to be here, Revelation chapter 15

Revelation 15:3

verse 3 says they sing the song of Moses, a servant of God, and

the song of the Lamb, saying great and marvelous are your

works, Lord God Almighty, just and true are your ways, O King

of the Saints. So we see in the Kingdom the Old

Testament Saints that were familiar with the song of Moses

and the New Testament believers who were or familiar with the

song of the Lamb. Both groups of people will be

there because we're all saved by faith in Jesus Christ.

Those in the Old Testament who trusted in the Messiah to come,

and those in the New Testament that were able to see the

finished work of Jesus Christ at the cross, His death, His

burial, his resurrection, and his soon coming.

The wall that we're looking at here that's being described

manifests the eternal security of our God, that only in God's

family are we secure and safe. I love the word when it says no

weapon that's formed against us shall prosper.

That God is our refuge, our strength, our fortress, our

strong tower and time of trouble.

God is faithful to protect and to save us to the other most.

If you turn to Hebrews Chapter 7, I love this verse.

Hebrews 7 · chapter mention

Whenever things get tough and you find that you're getting

discouraged and you think, boy, how in the world can I ever

fulfill the purposes of God in my life?

And you see the promise of God here in seven 25 of Hebrews.

Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who

come to God through Him, since He always lives to make

intercession for them. I love that word uttermost,

don't you? Not part way, only maybe, not

real, sure, not complete. No God is able to save to the

uttermost those who come to Him through Christ and I love the

promise Christ is always living to make intercession for us and

how much more as we study that we need to be making

intercession for one another, not grow weary and well doing or

faint in our mind. Praying for each other by name,

remembering each other's faces is a body of Christ here at

Calvary Chapel going through the church directory and going name

by name. You don't know all the details,

but God does. Having the people in your heart

and, and praying for God's provision and guidance and

direction and protection upon their lives.

And as we do that in our feeble attempt and by the grace of God,

we try to do these things faithfully daily, to pray for

the things that God puts in our heart.

Here we have our Savior who's ever living before the right

hand of the Father, living to make intercession for us night

and day. He doesn't stop praying.

He's praying always for you and for me and the fulfillment of

His plan in these last days. We need to be reminded of these

things. First John chapter 5.

1 John 5 · chapter mention

And this is a testimony that God has given us eternal life and

this life is in His Son. If you're here today and you're

a child of God and you're born again and you're a follower of

Jesus Christ, this is to you that God has given us eternal

life and this life is in His Son.

He who has a Son has life. If you're here today and you

don't have Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, this is the

message to you. He who does not have the Son of

God does not have life. You might be living, but you're

not living in God's kind of life.

You're living in a life that's going to suffer in hell forever

if you don't come to Jesus Christ today.

And he said in verse 13, these things I written to you who

believe in the name of the Son of God.

I love this that you may know that you have eternal life, that

you may know that you have eternal life, that you may know

No, no, no, right may know that we have eternal life.

Why? That you may continue to believe

in the name of the Son of God. And I love this.

Now this is the confidence that we have in Him that if we ask

anything according to His will, He hears us and we know that He

hears us whatever we ask. We know that we have the

petitions that we've asked of Him.

Go to verse 18. We know that whatever is born of

God does not sin. So if we're followers of Christ,

we don't have a desire to live in a habitual sin anymore.

If you say you're a follower of Christ, turn from sin.

Don't condone sin. Don't justify sin, don't accept

sin in your life if you're a follower of Jesus Christ.

It says if we're born of God, we don't sin.

That means we have to live in a way that's holy.

We have to live in a way that's obedient to the Lord Jesus, not

in our own strength, but by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the

flesh. The Bible says it says, But he

who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked 1 does

not touch him. So often Christians are paranoid

about the devil. The devil's doing this.

The devil's here. People talk more about the devil

than the victory that we have in Jesus Christ.

I love this promise. If we who have been born of God

walk with the Lord and stay away from sin, the wicked 1 does not

touch us. We know that we are of God and

the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an

understanding that we may know Him who is true and that we are

in Him who is true in His Son Jesus Christ.

This is a true God and eternal life.

Isn't that beautiful? I love the the description

description here. He's given us understanding that

we may know him who is true. We are in him who is true in his

Son. You talk about security and

protection and peace that we are in Jesus Christ.

And then the admonition at the end, little children, keep

yourselves from idols. Do you have idols in your lives

today, guys and gals, if we have idols, we need to repent of

those things. Cast the idols down.

But for followers of Christ, there's no room for idolatry in

our lives. Foolish focus upon things that

are going to perish and be destroyed.

I love the foundation of this particular city.

It reminds me of what it's tells us over in the book of Ephesians

Ephesians 2 · chapter mention

chapter 2. If you turn over there for a

moment, our foundation is not made out of bricks and mortar.

It says in Ephesians chapter 2, verse 19.

Ephesians 2:19

Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners,

but fellow citizens, with the Saints and the members of the

household of God having built on the foundation of the apostles

and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief

cornerstone. Isn't that amazing?

The Church is built upon Christ. On Christ the solid rock I

stand, all other ground is sinking sand.

I'm not standing on Calvary Chapel, and I hope you aren't

either. I'm standing on Jesus Christ.

Amen. On Christ the solid rock we

stand, all other ground is sinking sand.

And what's on top of Christ is the foundation of the apostles

and the prophets. Thanks for being with us today

here on Living Waters of Grace. We're in the Book of Revelation,

and we find it fascinating how influential and involved the

angels are in this book. They bring about whatever it is

that God has instructed them to do, but it's through their

actions that much of the judgements come on the earth.

The angels are in submission to God as their authority, but He

utilizes them in unique ways throughout this book.

Like angels have a specific purpose from God, you have a

unique purpose and plan too. God wants to use you in your

life as a testimony to others and to bring others who are

currently lost into the fold of God.

God would love more than anything for all who are willing

to come to Him for salvation, but He wants it to be their

choice, not a forced situation. This is the way God works, not

forcing himself on anyone, but giving each person free will.

If you're interested in learning about this choice that's free

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That's all for today's edition and Revelation, but there's much

more that Pastor Clark plans to share with us from this

culminating book of the Bible. Stay tuned for that and make

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