Part 7 | The God Who Opens Doors

Revelation 3

Philadelphia knew what it was to live in an world.

📖  Revelation 3:7 ESV And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.

Three Titles for Jesus:

A. The Holy One – Jesus our .

📖 Psalm 106:16–17 ESV When men in the camp were jealous of Moses and Aaron, the holy one of the Lord, 17 the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

📖Hebrews 4:15–16 ESV For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

B. The True One – Jesus our .

📖 John 8:31–32 ESV So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

📖 Romans 3:4 ESV Let God be true though every one were a liar

C. The One Who Opens Doors – Jesus, the .

📖 Isaiah 22:22 ESV And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

📖 Revelation 3:8 ESV I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

📖 1 Corinthians 16:9 ESV for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

Don’t ask God to your .
Get in His .

“God, get from this .”

1. When people them , Jesus His people.

📖 Revelation 3:9 ESV Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you.

📖 Zechariah 2:8 ESV he who touches you touches the apple of his eye

📖 Isaiah 60:14 ESV The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending low to you, and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet; they shall call you the City of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

2. When life their faith, Jesus His people.

📖 Revelation 3:10a ESV Because you have kept my word about patient endurance…

📖 Revelation 3:8 ESV I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

📖 Revelation 3:10b ESV …I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.

📖 Proverbs 3:7–8 ESV Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil. 8 It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.

📖 Revelation 3:11 ESV I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.

3. When their world , Jesus His people.

📖 Revelation 3:12 ESV The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.

A. in His (Pillar)
B. A you never .
C. A that’s never .

Sermon in a Sentence:

Closed never have the final word for the Lord who every in His .

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