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The Revelation of Jesus Christ

The Revelation of Jesus Christ. Outline of Revelation (1:19). I. “The things which you have seen” (1) ( Prologue / Vision) II. “The things which are” (2-3) ( Letters to the seven churches) “The things which shall take place hereafter” (4-22) (Tribulation / Return / Millennium).

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The Revelation of Jesus Christ

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  1. The Revelation of Jesus Christ

  2. Outline of Revelation (1:19) I. “The things which you have seen” (1) (Prologue / Vision) II. “The things which are” (2-3) (Letters to the seven churches) • “The things which shall take place hereafter” (4-22) (Tribulation / Return / Millennium)

  3. You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feelin’(Revelation 2:1-7)a message by Bill EubanksGrand Prairie Bible Church10/15/06

  4. Format of the Seven Letters • Setting • Speaker • Strengths • Sin • Solution • Summons • Success

  5. I. Setting Ephesus • 250,000 – 500,000 • “Lumen Asiae” – the commercial, political and religious center of Asia Minor • free city • imperial cult • pagan worship • the Artemisian

  6. The Artimisian

  7. All flesh is like grass, and all its glorylike the flower of grass.The grass withers,and the flower falls off, but the Word of the LORDendures forever.

  8. II. Speaker To the angel of the church at Ephesus write: “The One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands, says this:

  9. II. Speaker To the angel of the church at Ephesus write: “The One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands, says this:

  10. III. Strengths I know your deeds: 1. your labor of ministry 2. your discipline of evil 3. your doctrinal purity 4. your perseverance and endurance 5. you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans

  11. IV. Sin “But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.”

  12. IV. Sin “You have left your first love.” “They had lost the first flush of enthusiasm and excitement in their Christian life and had settled into a cold orthodoxy with more surface strength than depth.” … Grant Osborne

  13. Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, “Thus says the Lord, ‘I remember concerning the devotion of your youth, the love of your betrothals, your following after Me in the wilderness, through a land not sown.’ ” (Jer. 2:2)

  14. V. Solution • Remember! • Repent! • Repeat! Warning: If no repentance, I will remove your lampstand.

  15. VI. Summons “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches”

  16. Success “To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.” “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith. Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?” (1 John 5:4-5)

  17. Success “To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.” Gen. 2:9; 3:22 Rev. 22:2, 14, 19

  18. Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul-refreshing view of Jesus and His Word? … William Cowper

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