Part 4 | The Devil’s Second Strategy

Revelation 2

If Satan cannot believers with , he will seek to them with .

A. Pergamum was a Church that wouldn’t .

📖  Revelation 2:12 ESV “And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword. 13 “ ‘I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. Yet you hold fast my name…’

B. Pergamum was a Church that began to .

📖  Revelation 2:14 ESV But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality.

Satan cannot you, but he can you.

C. Pergamum was a Church that had to .

📖  Revelation 2:16 ESV Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth. 

What do we choose?

1. Choose to for in a world of .

📖 Revelation 2:13 ESV and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

2. Choose the before every .

📖  Revelation 2:14 ESV But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality.

Every promises what only can .

3. Choose God’s over worldly .

📖 Revelation 2:17 ESV He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’

1. stone – white stones meant “ ”

2. stone – tickets to .

3. stone – awards.

4. HIGH PRIEST stone – priestly .

Sermon in a Sentence:

Christians refuse because only Jesus what the world merely .

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