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99% 1.7 million pieces of first class mail lost each day. 200,000 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
99% 1.7 million pieces of first class mail lost each day. 200,000 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
99% 1.7 million pieces of first class mail lost each day. 200,000 people getting the wrong drug prescriptions each year. 99% Drinking water unsafe 3 days a year. 2 million people would die from food poisoning each year.
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- 1.7 million pieces of first class mail
lost each day.
- 200,000 people getting the wrong
drug prescriptions each year.
99%
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- Drinking water unsafe 3 days a year.
- 2 million people would die from food
poisoning each year.
Galaxie Software, 10,000 Sermon Illustrations (Biblical Studies Press, 2002).
99%
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13 I know where you dwell, where
Satan's throne is.
Revelation 2:13
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The Seven Churches of Revelation
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Sacred Way to Pergamum
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Pergamum Sacred Way with Acropolis
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Altar of Zeus–Pergamum
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Roman Man in Armor Statue
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Temple of Emperor Trajan
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Stonecutters during the reign of Emperor Diocletian, refused to carve an image of Asklepios were executed for their faith.
(Mounce, Revelation, 96, n. 36). John F. MacArthur Jr., Revelation 1–11, MacArthur New Testament Commentary (Chicago: Moody Press, 1999), 86.
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12 “And to the angel of the church in
Pergamum write: ‘The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.
Revelation 2:12-17
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13 “‘I know where you dwell, where
Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith[a] even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
Revelation 2:12-17
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14 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.
Revelation 2:12-17
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15 So also you have some who hold
the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
16 Therefore repent. If not, I will come
to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth.
Revelation 2:12-17
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17 He who has an ear, let him hear what
the Spirit says to the churches. To the
- ne 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.’
Revelation 2:12-17
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1. Problem: 2. Solution: 3. Application:
structure
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“Teaching of Balaam” – Revelation 2:14 = Numbers 22–25
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“Pagan food and pagan women [make for] powerful tools…”
(Blaiklock - Seven Churches, 39). Robert H. Mounce, The Book of Revelation, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1997), 80.
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… the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab. 2 These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their
- gods. 3 So Israel yoked himself to Baal of
- Peor. And the anger of the LORD was
kindled against Israel…
Numbers 25
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6 And behold, one of the people of Israel
came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel… 7 When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the
Numbers 25
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priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand
8 and went after the man of Israel
into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on
Numbers 25
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the people of Israel was stopped.
9 Nevertheless, those who died by the
plague were twenty-four thousand.
10 And the LORD said to Moses, 11 “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of
Aaron the priest, has turned back my
Numbers 25
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wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.
12 Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my
covenant of peace, 13 and it shall be
Numbers 25
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to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.’ ”
Numbers 25
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Wake up to the reality that the world and the church were locked in a fight to the death
Craig S. Keener, Revelation, The NIV Application Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1999), 131.
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4 Don’t you realize that friendship
with the world makes you an enemy
- f God? I say it again: If you want to
be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.
James 4:4
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16 Repent. If not, I will come to you
soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth.
Revelation 2:16
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2 Do not be conformed to this world,
but be transformed by the renewal
- f your mind, that by testing you
may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:2
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5 For those set their minds on the
things of the flesh ... live according to the flesh, but those set their minds on the things of the Spirit….who live according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:5
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5 … take every thought captive
to obey Christ,
2 Corinthians 10:5b
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Mindset = the heart attitude that steers the course of our life.
Douglas J. Moo, Romans, The NIV Application Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 2000), 257.
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Christ’s Call To Discipleship
J.M. Boice, Moody, 1986, pp. 122-23 Galaxie Software, 10,000 Sermon Illustrations (Biblical Studies Press, 2002).
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