Comeback 5 - Renew
Comeback • Sermon • Submitted
0 ratings
· 2 viewsThe end time church must return to her roots of the early Church - purity, passion and power.
Notes
Transcript
Review, Return, Revive, Resume, Renew
Review, Return, Revive, Resume, Renew
Smyrna – The Suffering Church
Smyrna – The Suffering Church
Revelation 2:8 (NLT)
8 “Write this letter to the angel of the church in Smyrna. This is the message from the one who is the First and the Last, who was dead but is now alive:
Revelation 2:9 (NLT)
9 “I know about your suffering and your poverty—but you are rich! I know the blasphemy of those opposing you. They say they are Jews, but they are not, because their synagogue belongs to Satan.
Revelation 2:10 (NLT)
10 Don’t be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The devil will throw some of you into prison to test you. You will suffer for ten days. But if you remain faithful even when facing death, I will give you the crown of life.
A - RESILIENT Faith and Loyalty
A - RESILIENT Faith and Loyalty
B – REFINED by Testing
B – REFINED by Testing
Revelation 2:11 (NLT)
11 “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches. Whoever is victorious will not be harmed by the second death.
Philadelphia — The Faithful Church
Philadelphia — The Faithful Church
Revelation 3:7 (NLT)
7 “Write this letter to the angel of the church in Philadelphia. This is the message from the one who is holy and true, the one who has the key of David. What he opens, no one can close; and what he closes, no one can open:
Revelation 3:8 (NLT)
8 “I know all the things you do, and I have opened a door for you that no one can close. You have little strength, yet you obeyed my word and did not deny me.
3 principles of the faithful
· open doors for ministry,
· depending on Christ’s strength,
· keeping the Word of God.
C – RESOURCEFUL
C – RESOURCEFUL
D – Be READY to go
D – Be READY to go
Revelation 3:9 (NLT)
9 Look, I will force those who belong to Satan’s synagogue—those liars who say they are Jews but are not—to come and bow down at your feet. They will acknowledge that you are the ones I love.
Revelation 3:10 (NLT)
10 “Because you have obeyed my command to persevere, I will protect you from the great time of testing that will come upon the whole world to test those who belong to this world.
E – REWARD, Recompense
E – REWARD, Recompense
RETAIN your crown
REWARDS can be Lost
Revelation 3:12 (NLT)
12 All who are victorious will become pillars in the Temple of my God, and they will never have to leave it. And I will write on them the name of my God, and they will be citizens in the city of my God—the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven from my God. And I will also write on them my new name.
· Success is up to your yieldedness to God!
· Success is up to your yieldedness to God!
· Revelation 3:13 (NLT)
13 “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches.
F – REFORM = greater works
F – REFORM = greater works
IT IS TIME TO COME BACK TO WHAT YOU WERE CREATED TO BE IN THE FIRST PLACE