False Teachers and Their Destruction

Letter to the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia

The letter to the Faithful church in Philadelphia – Revelation

Revelation, Seven Letters to Seven Churches

We move on to The Letter to the church in Philadelphia. It’s unique within the seven letters in Revelation. It’s almost entirely filled with promises to the faithful in this church. Jesus has only good things to say to this church.  Therefore, the examination will obviously be about them.  What did they do right?  How might they have achieved such good news from Jesus?  And what can we learn for us today? That is, both for our churches and for us as individuals?

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Revelation – The letter to the compromising church in Pergamum

The letter to the compromising church in Pergamum in Revelation

Revelation, Seven Letters to Seven Churches

We move on to the third of the seven letters in Revelation.  This time the letter to the compromising church in Pergamum – also called Pergamos in some translations.  Jesus has good things to say about the church in Pergamum.  And some things that aren’t good.  Given the warnings though, it seems like more bad news than good.  We’ll see if that’s the case.  Just how bad is the compromising?

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Don’t settle for less, #07: Don’t relentlessly collaborate

Settling for less

Don’t relentlessly collaborate as a “thing” for successful people seems to be at odds with being a successful Christian.  After all, what about church?  Bible study?  Small groups?  Christian community?  Aren’t those all important things for a Christian?  In fact, these Christian community meetings are so important, the author of Hebrews wrote about it in a passage the NIV titles A Call to Persevere.

But ultimately, for a Christian the key to success is knowing the difference between someone who can help us lead the kind of life taught by Jesus and led by the Holy Spirit, and someone who leads a life taught from the ideas of man rather than God.

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