Where are we going… where have we been?

1. Where are we going… where have we been?

2. “Growing Outand Growing Up”- “Bearingand Baring”-“Right Raveand Left Love” - “Hype and Hypocrisy”-“Historyand His Story” -“Acts and Actions”- “Revealedand Revealing” -“Fully Purposed andFully Positioned”- “Exposed and Exposure” • Ephesus Where are we going … where have we been?

3. - “Blessingsand Cursings”- “Blindand Seeing”-“Nothing and Everything”- “Seedand Situation” -“Cost and Cause”- “Informationand Informed” • Smyrna Where are we going … where have we been?

4. Where are we going…where have we been? • Pergamos “Eclipsed andEntangled”

5. Romans 1:20 – “For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse”

9. John 4:24 – “God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

10. 1st John 4:12 – “No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.”

13. John 8:12 – “Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”

15. John 14:9 – “Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?”

16. Malachi 4:2 – “But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.”

19. Job 25:5 – “Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.”

22. Ephesians 2:1 – “And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins” • Philippians 2:15 – “That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world”

28. Application: • Historical • Devotional (Inspirational) • Doctrinal (Prophetical)

30. Where are we going… where have we been? • Application: • Historical • Devotional (Inspirational) • Doctrinal (Prophetical)

31. Pergamos • Commission • Character • Commendation • Condemnation • Correction • Call • Challenge

32. Pergamos • Commission

33. Was the capitol city of the Roman government in Asia • Commission • Pergamos

35. A Holy Mother • “Supernaturally conceived son” • He is the incarnation of his father. • His father was manifested as “Blazing Light”

36. The “son’s” birthday was December 25th. • The “birthday”is celebrated with: feasting,parades, holly, mistletoe, yule logs, and evergreen trees!

37. This “evergreen tree” is to be brought into the house and “decked” or “decorated”. • The “holy mother” is CENTRAL to the religion.

38. This “holy mother” is prayed to as the “queen of heaven”, the “Mediatrix”, the “mother of God”, the “Madonna”. • The mother and child together represent “fertility”

39. The “son” dies and is buried. • After 40 days of weeping by his mother, he is miraculously resurrected from the dead.

40. They celebrated this “raising from the dead” in the SPRING of every year. • The event is called “Ishtar”, pronounced “Easter”

41. “Ishtar” celebration included bunny rabbits, colored eggs, bonnets and an “Ishtar” sunrise service.

42. “This “worship” also included ritualistic, repetitive prayers…using ROSARY BEADS!

43. The worship of statues was included, using the symbol called the “TAU”, in the shape of the letter “T”.

46. Ecclesiastes 3:14-15 - “I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him. That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.”

47. He SCATTERED • He CONFOUNDED

49. Was the capitol city of the Roman government in Asia • Pergamos

50. Matthew 25:41 – “Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels”