Pastor Marshall Ochs | August 14, 2022
In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Revelation 2. This chapter includes four of the seven letters to the churches. Jesus commends the churches for staying faithful, walking in love, and enduring in persecution. However, some of the churches have given in to cultural pressure to compromise. Other churches have forsaken their first love. Jesus calls the churches to repent of their sin and overcome darkness.
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The Lord knows and sees our hearts as we live out our daily lives. Pray and ask Him to reveal in you any area of your life that is not lining up with His word. Are your priorities in order?
Do you remember when you first met Jesus? Since that time, have you abandoned your first love?
Our obedience is out of our love for Him. We don’t get to choose what we obey or not obey. Selective obedience causes us to look like the world instead of Christ. Pray and ask the Lord to reveal areas in your life where you have compromised your faith and witness by trying to be friends with this world.
Scripture teaches us that we will have tribulations and be tested in this life. Are you willing to live out your faith no matter the cost? Are you willing to be faithful to Christ, even unto death?
The church in Pergamum allowed false teachers to deceive them. Have you allowed the teachings of this world to lull you into idolatry? In what ways are you trying to “hold hands” with Jesus and the world?
The church in Thyatira was seduced into sexual immorality. Ask the Lord to reveal any areas where you have been seduced by the world to compromise and no longer see sexual sin as sin?