Knowing God.

The church in Pergamum Revelation 2:12-17 Pergamum is the third church that’s mentioned in the book of revelation. It was 100miles from Ephesus. It was considered by some people to be Asia’s great city. Its ruins are found near a place called Bergama in Turkey today. It was a very educated place. There was a massive altar to Zeus. There were temples dedicated to Asclepius, Athena, Dionysus and zeu...

1 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne...

The church of Smyrna was purified by suffering. The price for being a Christian in that city (Smyrna) was very, very high. It was a very anti-gospel, anti-God place. Believers in Smyrna loved Christ and never left their first love; they continued to love Him zealously. Persecution does not destroy the church; but it makes it strong. Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is ab...

The church that left the first love. Revelation 2:1-7 This church toiled for the kingdom of God, they never gave up on the word of God; they were active. It was a church which understood their yoke of salvation. They were persistent, hardworking. They were intolerant of sin; they resented evil doers, they hated all that was spiritually bad. They gave no place for evil inside church. They had the k...

You Reap What You Sow 7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. (Galatians 6:7, ESV) What you sow, you reap. Paul here speaks about the realm of spiritual life. If one sows to the flesh, you reap corrup...

For in the eighth year of his reign while he was still a youth, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, the carved images and the molten images. (2 Chronicles 34:3, NASB) Age doesn’t matter when it comes to seeking God, as a youth you might think and say that praying, fasting, ministry and everythi...

Ephesians 6:18 LSB praying at all times with all prayer and petition in the Spirit, and to this end, being on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints, Our prayers must be constant, specific and intense because we are watching, discerning realities and seeing things which need to be brought before the throne of God. ‌prayer must be done with perseverance. Colossians 4:12 Epa...

True worship is any and every expression of obedience, praise, honor, adoration and gratitude offered to God by a regenerate soul who knows the truth about God and loves Him. Matthew 15:7-9 You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you: 'THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME. 'BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.'" * S...

Today we have so many possessions that they possess us. We have stocked piles of possessions. There have been a development of storages today Everything that’s material that we have came from God and it comes out the creation of God. The issue is not possession but attitude towards God. The sin is not in the wealth but in the attitude a person gets after having much wealth. The sin is not having m...

When God gives someone His word, people will hate it because it’s the truth and they can’t receive it since they are preprogrammed to believe lies. Whoever is not of God has no capacity to believe and understand the truth that the Bible reveals. People will call anyone speaking boldly against their sin a demon. If you told them the truth, they will say that you’re from hell. Today the church is tr...

There are two kinds of disciples in John 15:1-8 and are all attached to Christ who is the vine. Many people think and say quoting this passage in John that one can lose his salvation, the bible doesn't say that. All branches are attached to the vine. There are those that bear fruit and remain attached to the vine and those that don't bear fruit which are cut off and are burned. The more we read th...

In the Jewish culture it was believed that after four days the spirit of any person had left his body and that person is totally dead. This belief was rooted in various Rabbinic texts such as the Midrash Tanchuma and Leviticus Rabbah which suggested that; for the first three days, the soul lingers, hoping it might return to the body. And on the fourth day, the bodies facial features begin to chang...

"For My hand made all these things, Thus all these things came into being," declares the LORD."But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.(Isaiah 66:2,NASB) ‌ God finds His home in a humble heart, He finds his home in a trembling heart. A heart humble before Him, a heart broken over sin before Him and a heart that trembles at His word. A h...

What price did Christ pay? He bore our griefs. He carried our sorrows. He was pierced, chastened and scourged for us. Verse 4 is our wrong attitude and Christ died in order that we have the right attitudes. Verse 5 is our behavior, but Christ paid the price with His life that we have the right behaviors. Verse 6 is our nature; Christ died that we have the right nature. Many times as believers when...

The price Christ paid not many can pay. He had no stately form or majesty that could attract anybody. Remember I told you that he grew up in a family of a humble background. His peasant upbringing, His poverty, as well as his lack of association with the aristocracy that's the all religious, political, and economic power in Jerusalem. What price did Christ pay? He left all glory, all honor in heav...

1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 "Honor your father and mother"(this is the first commandment with a promise), (Ephesians 6:1, ESV) ‌Children, does not mean only tinny little children but it means any child under the roof of his or her parents and is not yet married, regardless their age is; they are still children. ‌For any child; Academics, athletics, fashion, spor...

Apostasy is characterized by the denial of the truth. It can be a denial of God's reality; a denial of the true nature of God. It can be a denial of the Christian faith at any point. But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,(1 Timothy 4:1, NASB) Apostasy can be put simply as a denial of soun...

Proverbs 4:23 NLT [23] Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. The heart is the place in which the process of self-consciousness is carried out, in which the soul is at home with itself, and is conscious of all its doing and suffering as its own” As the engine in a motor vehicle determines its function, so the heart also determines our function and also our dest...