And now with the increasing situations where there is an uncontrollable rampage like the murderous acts of 15 year old Kip Kinkel in Oregon , people are looking for some insight or explanation to give them help.

The newspapers at that time reported: “Some speculate that alien intelligence might beam vast streams of coded information, a virtual encyclopedia galactica, with insights into THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE AND IMMORTALITY.”

SUCH AN ABSOLUTE DISREGARD FOR THE INDISPUTABLE FACT THAT SUCH A STREAM OF INFINITE KNOWLEDGE HAS ARRIVED IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE! The Intelligence of the Universe HAS beamed us about our origin and offered immortality freely to all.

Thus we have here  not only crystal clear details on the opening day of the Cosmos but also:

• THE SECRET OF HOW TO LIVE FOREVER

• THE SECRET OF HOW TO HAVE A JOY-FILLED MARRIAGE (PROVERBS 5)

• THE SECRET OF HOW TO EXPERIENCE REAL LOVE (I CORINTHIANS 13)

• THE SECRET OF HOW TO BE PROSPEROUS AND SUCCESSFUL (JOSH 1)

• THE SECRET OF HOW TO NEVER FEAR THE FUTURE (JOHN 14)

• THE SECRET OF HOW TO RESIST SATAN (I PETER 5)

THE ANSWER IS HERE — DID YOU KNOW

JESUS WROTE SOME LETTERS TO YOU?

Two thousand years ago Jesus wrote letters to His beloved Church. He sent them by way of the last living Apostle, John. These letters were a group message, customized for seven churches representing all of the churches then and now.

Ask any Bible student how many epistles (letters) are in the New Testament. He will probably answer 21 : 13 authored by Paul, plus Hebrews, which appears anonymous; and the seven “general epistles” by Peter, James, John, and Jude.

We usually overlook the seven most important letters: the seven authored by Jesus personally. For many reasons, these seven letters, comprising Chapters 2 and 3 of the Book of Revelation, are probably the most important part of this Book for you and me.

DID YOU KNOW THE BIBLE

IS SUPERNATURALLY ENGINEERED?

The Bible is like many textbooks in school, all the answers are found at the end of the book. The end of the Bible is, of course, the Revelation of Jesus Christ to John.

The Bible is made up of 66 books, written by 40 authors over 15 centuries, yet possessing a supernaturally engineered message. Every word, every letter, every name, every place and every number was placed there by the guiding hand of God through the Holy Spirit inspiring each human author.  Thus every detail of God’s Word was planned by God for revealing Himself and His plan.

And nowhere is this more clearly demonstrated than in the last book of the Bible, the Revelatin of Jesus Christ. Each of its 404 verses, which hold allusions to over 800 Old Testament verses and passages, tie the entire Bible together in a grand finale.

JESUS WROTE TO SEVEN CHURCHES

SO WE ALL WOULD HEAR!

There were many other churches at that time that would seem to be more historically significant than the seven that Jesus addressed: the churches at Jerusalem, Rome, Galatia, Corinth, Antioch, Colossae, Iconium, Lystra, Derbe, Miletus, to name a few. Why did Jesus select just these seven: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea? Simply because these seven represent four levels of His message.

 JESUS GIVES A SPECIFIC MESSAGE: First, “to the church at . . .” He spoke to the local churches that were in those geographic places then. Jesus still is interested in His local, geographic churches. He speaks to individuals by name, He knows what they are doing at church, at work and at home.

 JESUS GIVES A UNIVERSAL MESSAGE: Second, “Hear what the Spirit says to the churches . . . “ This is plural and speaks of an admonition to all churches throughout all the history of the church. Here Jesus addresses His divine expectations of all churches for all of history!

 JESUS GIVES A PROPHETIC MESSAGE: Thirdly, Jesus was describing the seven types of Christians that would make up the visible church throughout all the church age. This is perhaps the most fascinating part of the Book as Jesus describes with divine precision the seven successive eras the church would pass through from Pentecost to the last days of Apostasy.

 JESUS GIVES A SPIRITUAL MESSAGE: Finally, “He that hath an ear, let him hear . . .” Note the singular “ear” this is the practical and personal message from Jesus to each of us, this may be the most valuable part of the entire Book.

These letters describe the unfolding of all subsequent church history. In any other order, this prophetic panorama would not be true! These letters seem to be the explanation for the interval between the 69th and 70th “weeks” of Daniel

9. Just as the Book of Acts covers about 30 years of the growth and ministry of the church; the 2nd and 3rd chapters of the Book of Revelation cover the next 1,900 years.

HIS SPECIFIC MESSAGE:

LOCAL CHURCHES WITH LOCAL PROBLEMS

I ALWAYS KNOW ALL ABOUT YOU!

CHRIST SPEAKING TO HIS CHURCH: The letters to the Churches. Finally, each letter has all or part of these seven components:

 Jesus addresses each Assembly 2:1a

 Jesus addresses each with Authority 2:1b

 Jesus addresses each with an Approval 2:2-3, 6

 Jesus addresses each with an Admonition 2:4

 Jesus addresses each with an Appeal 2:5

 Jesus addresses each with an Assurance 2:7

THE UNIVERSAL MESSAGE:

ALL CHURCHES THROUGHOUT ALL OF HISTORY

I ALWAYS EXPECT YOUR DEVOTION !

CHRIST WAITING FOR HIS CHURCH: The Church in every Age: SEVEN KINDS OF CHRISTIANS.  In the next place, the seven churches represent seven varieties of Christians, true and false.  Every professor of Christianity is like one of these seven. This morning more than likely God has classified and found here:

1. Ephesus had left her first love: Overcomers discover Jesus is all I need, and return to Him. Some Ephesian Christians,  have a great start but a lack of that initial consuming love.

2. Smyrna was in great persecution and stood fast through it. Overcomers discover Jesus is all I have, and remain faithful to Him.  Some Smyrnaote Christians, are purified by persecution, and faithful at all costs to the Lord.

3. Pergamum was drowning in worldliness; Overcomers discover Jesus is all I need, and resist worldliness and look above. Some Pergamite Christians, wed to the world, a country club Christian with no standards, with a focus and grip on money, car and job, only doing what is socially acceptable, compromising Scriptures’ absolutes, they are more concerned with fashion than with Holiness.

4. Thyatira was being seduced by the false teacher Jezebel; Overcomers resisted all such evil teaching and lifestyles. Some Thyatiran Christians are believing and following false doctrine, with a social gospel not a divine call to the new birth.

5. Sardis had a big name but no life; Overcomers did not defile themselves with the corpse. Some Sardian Christians, are dead as last week’s cut flowers, cold and lifeless, in a spiritual stupor.

6. But no condemnation for Philadelphia, no blame just a warning to overcome and hold on!! Some Philadelphian Christians, sound in doctrine, zealous in ministry, are outreaching the world and deeply in love with the Lord Jesus Christ!

7. Some Laodicean, are apostate, counterfeit and sickening to Christ. A member of the Christless church that will thrive in the tribulation under Satan’s leadership.

It is of these seven sorts that the whole church is made up. So in a most emphatic way, if you are a born again Christian, this letter is addressed to you—REMEMBER – REPENT – REPEAT

THE PROPHETIC MESSAGE:

THERE WILL BE SEVEN STAGES OF CHURCH HISTORY

I ALWAYS WILL BE WITH YOU !

CHRIST FADING FROM HIS CHURCH: The Church throughout the Ages: SEVEN SUCCESSIVE STAGES  IN CHURCH HISTORY. For just a moment, let me give you a perspective- there are seven letters in Revelation 2 – 3 that give us the church in prophetic perspective – the church from Christ’s ascension until He comes to take His Church – from century one to the rapture.  In the first place, the seven Churches represent seven phases or periods in the Church’s history, stretching from the time of the apostles to the coming again of Christ. The characteristics  are set forth partly in the names of these Churches, but more fully in the epistles addressed to them.

 There was the Ephesian period–30-60 AD a period of warmth and love and labor for Christ, dating directly from the apostles, in which defection began by the gradual cooling of the love of some, the false professions of others and the incoming of undue exaltations of the clergy and church offices.

 Then came the Smyrna period–60 -300 AD the era of martyrdom, and of the sweet savor unto God of faithfulness unto death, but marked with further developments of defection in the establishment of castes and orders, the license of Judaizing propensities, and consequent departures from the true simplicities of the Gospel.

 Then followed the  Pergamite period, 300-500 AD in which true faith more and more disappeared from view, and clericalism gradually formed itself into a system and, the church united with the world, and Babylon began to rear itself aloft.

 Then came the Thyatiran period– 500-1500 AD the age of purple and glory for the corrupt priesthood, and of darkness of truth.  The age of effeminacy and clerical domination, when the church usurped the place of Christ, and the witnesses of Jesus were given to dungeons, stakes and inquisitions; the age of the enthronement of false prophetess, reaching to the days of Luther and the Reformation.

 Then came the Sardian period–1500-1800 AD the age of separation and return of the rule of Christ.  An age of many worthy names but, marked with deadness withal, and having much of which to repent; an age covering the spiritual lethargy of the Protestant centuries before the great evangelical movements of the last hundred years.

 Next was the Philadelphian period  1800-1950 AD is a time of great missionary fervor, evangelistic outreach and devotional godliness. In this time the world was penetrated with the gospel like no time since Pentecost.

 Which brings us to the Laodicean period, 1950 AD – present there is luke-warmness, self-sufficiency, empty profession, and false peace, in which the day of judgment is to find the unthinking multitude who

 suppose they are Christians and are not.

THE SPIRITUAL MESSAGE:

JESUS HAS A WONDERFUL PLAN FOR EVERY

TRUE BELIEVER — I ALWAYS OFFER THE BEST TO YOU !

The last message Jesus has for us  is His wonderful plan. He has spelled out what He wants us to be like. He has detailed how He by His grace will enable us to live!  This morning Jesus is here. CHRIST SEEKING OUT HIS CHURCH: Our Lord Jesus Christ came to give so much. Have you received what Jesus came to give every one of His own born again children?

TRUE BELIEVERS

HAVE AN ABUNDANT LIFE

Revelation 2:7

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To himthat overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. (KJV)

 This means we have infinite life in paradise regained – John 3:16

 AN OVERFLOWING LIFE:  John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.  (KJV)

 AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE: John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have [it] more abundantly. [perissos: exceeding some number or measure or rank or need, over and above, more than is necessary, super added, exceeding abundantly, supremely something further, more, much more than all, more plainly, superior, extraordinary, surpassing, uncommon, pre-eminence, superiority, advantage, more eminent,  more remarkable, more excellent]

TRUE BELIEVERS HAVE

AN INDESTRUCTIBLE LIFE

Revelation 2:11

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. (KJV)

 SECURE FROM ANY PHYSICAL ADVERSARY:  John 10:28-29 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave [them] me, is greater than all; and no [man] is able to pluck [them] out of my Father’s hand. (KJV)

 SECURE FROM ANY SPIRITUAL ADVERSARY:  Romans 8:38-39 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (KJV)

TRUE BELIEVERS HAVE

AN INEXAUSTIBLE SUPPLY

Revelation 2:17

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth [it]. (KJV)

 ALL SPIRITUAL NEEDS MET:  John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (KJV)

 ALL SPIRITUAL DESIRES FULFILLED: John 14:13, 14

14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do [it.]  (KJV)

TRUE BELIEVERS HAVE

AN INEXPRESSIBLE FUTURE

Revelation 2:26

And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: (KJV)

 GOD WILL REWARD US WITH UNMEASUREABLE TREASURES:  Mark 10:29-30

  (KJV)

 GOD WILL OVERWHELM US WITH UNBELIEVABLE PLEASURES:  Second Corinthians 12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. (KJV)

TRUE BELIEVERS HAVE

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