Seven Letters - Seven Churches
God uses circumstances and situations to mold his children into the people he has designed them to be. Looking at the final letter from Jesus in this series, we learn what complacency looks like and how to identify it in ourselves and our churches. With the global health crisis from COVID-19, we are encouraged by the Word to embrace the mission we’ve been called to.
We have made our way through the first five cities of the province of Asia and in this message we will be studying the church at Philadelphia. The title of this message is “Accessing God’s Open Door” because our passage this morning tells us about an open door that no man can shut that has been opened by God for them. In light of all the craziness that is happening as a result of the Coronavirus, we must ask ourselves: “What open doors has God placed before us?” and “Are we willing to walk through them?”
As we continue our study through the seven churches of the Revelation, I want us to enter this study of the fourth letter to the church of Thyatira with a clear understanding of what the Bible is and how we are to respond to it. We cannot twist its words, nor ignore the parts that do not appeal to us. Just like the church in Thyatira, we must learn to call sin what it is… SIN.
This third sermon in the series from Revelation 2 and 3 focuses on the church in the city of Pergamum. The city of Pergamum was the home for worship of four of the greatest pagan deities (including Zeus and Athena) and had three other temples dedicated to the worship of Caesar. It was in this context that the church remained faithful in the face of persecution, but was corrupted from within by false teachers, idolatry and sexual immorality. God called them, and is calling us, to repent of sinful actions, attitudes and intentions of the heart.
This second sermon in the series from Revelation 2 and 3 focuses on the church in the city of Smyrna. In the six other letters we’ll be looking at, Jesus commends the church and then rebukes the church, but this doesn’t happen in the letter to Smyrna. In this letter, we’ll see that Jesus is…
This is the first sermon in a series from Revelation 2 and 3. These two chapters contain letters to seven different churches in the province of Asia. The first letter, to the church at Ephesus, commends the church several things, but it points out that they had abandoned their first love. In this sermon, we’ll seek to discover what that meant, what they were challenged to do about it, and what the consequences would be if they do nothing.