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AUDIO for Sunday – December 4, 2016

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REVELATION MESSAGE 9: Philadelphia–The Church of the Open Door
Revelation 3:7-13

What service or duty or work might God ask of a little church?

  • What are his expectations? I mean, if you think about it, how could a church small in size, with limited resources and little influence do anything meaningful in the cause of Jesus Christ?
  • Let’s not kid ourselves. Let’s face reality. No idealistic silliness or fanciful speculations. No human boasting and wishful thinking. Let’s talk about life in the real world, the bottom line, what matters.
  • But as we do this we shouldn’t  stop at only what we can perceive or understand on our own as mere humans. Why stop there when we all know that reality extends far beyond this world? So let’s not limit ourselves or restrict ourselves to our human theories and notions.
  • What if we had someone who could speak ultimate reality to us? What if this morning, right now, we could hear from Someone who is the very essence of ultimate reality of both this world and the next?

STUDY SHEETS for Sunday – December 4, 2016

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What does it mean that they have kept his word and have not denied his name?

What is this open door that Christ has set before them?

Message: “Philadelphia–The Church of the Open Door!” 
Message Text: Revelation 3:7-13

 

“You have kept my word and have not denied my Name.”

(Revelation 1:3 ESV)

 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.

(Revelation 22:7 ESV)

 And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.

(Revelation 22:9 ESV)

 But he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”

(Matthew 24:35 ESV)

 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

(Mark 8:38 ESV)

 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

(John 5:24 ESV)

 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

(John 8:31 ESV)

 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples.”

(John 8:37 ESV)

 I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.

(John 8:43 ESV)

 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.

(John 8:51 ESV)

 Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.

(John 12:48 ESV)

 The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

(John 14:23 ESV)

 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.”

(John 14:24 ESV)

 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.

(John 17:6 ESV)

 I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

(John 17:17 ESV)

 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

(1 John 2:4–5a ESV)

 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected.