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Sermon: Rev 2 Smyrna

Smyrna


Rev 2:8-11


We have seen that the visions of Revelation, this
fascinating book which brings God’s final Word to his
church and deals with the things that lay in the future
right up until the end of the world as we know it and
beyond, has at its heart a vision of the Lord Jesus as the
Majestic and Sovereign Lord of History - the nations
and Lord of his people - the church . Ruling it,
disciplining it, protecting it, keeping it.


Jesus sends a personal letter to each of seven specific
churches in Asia Minor, what we today would call
Turkey. We have seen too that these seven churches
are not only real churches but they are also
representative churches. In the sense that they
represent the kinds of situations that churches face not
only in the first century but throughout the whole of
history.


Last week we saw the danger of Formalism. The
possibility of having all the outward trappings of faith
but somehow, somewhere along the line having lost the
heart of the thing. The first love.

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