EveryONE is INVITED!
‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.’ And the servant said, ‘Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.’ Then the master said to the servant, ‘
Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Thus says the Lord:
All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.
Servants of the Lord and His followers are related to the
Seven Churches of Revelations; What church are you?
Everyone is urged to *repent* of lukewarmness, sexual immorality, idolatries, heresies.
Church of Sardis
Book
Revelation 3: 1- 6
Exhortation
Dead church
Instruction
Repent. Be watchful, strengthen the things which remain
Reward
White Garments
Promise
Keep their name in the Book of Life.
“I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God.” (Revelations. 3:1b-2)
Church of Philadelphia
Perseveres in faith, keeps the Word of the Lord, and honour Him
Book
Revelation 3:7-13
Exhortation
None
Instruction
Keep the faith
Reward
A new name and the New Jerusalem
Promise
Be a pillar in the temple of God
“Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have,
that no one may take your crown.” (Revelations 3:10-11)
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Church of Laodiceans
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Book
Revelation 3:14-22
Exhortation
Lukewarm church
Instruction
Be zealous and repent
Reward
Will come to dine together
Promise
Sit with the Lord' on His throne
“I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see." (Revelations 3:18)
Church of Ephesus
Rejects evil, perseveres, has patience
Book
Revelation 2 : 1 - 7
Exhortation
Seek Christ, the First Love
Instruction
Do the first works you used to do
Reward
The Tree Of Life
Risk
Removal of the lampstand
“Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.” (Revelations 2:4-5)
Church of Smyrna
Supports suffering by grace
Book
Revelation 2:8-11
Exhortation
None
Instruction
Be faithful until death
Reward
Crown of Life
Promise
Who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death
“Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.” (Revelations 2:10)
Church of Pergamos
Holds fast to My name, and did not deny My faith
Book
Revelation 2:12-117
Exhortation
Tolerates immorality, idolatry, and heresies: Balaam, Nicolatians
Instruction
Repent
Reward
A white stone, with a new name written which no one knows it
Promise
The hidden manna to eat..
Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them
with the sword of My mouth. (Revelations 2:15-16)
You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess [claiming to be inspired], and who is teaching and leading astray my servants and beguiling them into practicing sexual vice and eating food sacrificed to idols.
I gave her time to repent, but she has no desire to repent of
her immorality [symbolic of idolatry] and refuses to do so.
Take note: I will throw her on a bed [of anguish], and those who commit adultery with her [her paramours] I will bring down to pressing distress and severe affliction, unless they turn away their minds from conduct [such as] hers and repent of their doings.”
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When I say unto the wicked,
Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
