Church at Philadelphia Revelation 3:7-13

Ephesus: Passion was Lost – Fires of Satan’s Aspiration to be worshipped!

Smyrna: Persecution from the Idolaters - Fires of Satan’s Opposition to pure worship!

Pergamos: Penetration of Worldliness – Fires of Satan’s Temptation to pagan worship!

Thyatira: Purity of the Church – Fires of Satan’s Indoctrination to Put up with sins Wretchedness!

Sardis: Putridness of the Church – Fires of Satan’s Destruction of God’s People to be Worthless!

Philadelphia: Power of the Church – Fires of Satan’s Determination to Prevent the Church from Working together.

III. Conflict – (9) Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

A. Liars - Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie;

B. Losers – behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet,

C. Love – and to know that I have loved thee.

Ephesians 5:25 - Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Romans 8:35 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

II Corinthians 5:14 - For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

Ephesians 3:19 - And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

IV. Commendation – 10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. 11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

A. Kept - 10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience,

Psalm 119:17 - Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word…..57 Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.

Luke 24:8 - And they remembered his words,

John 14:15 - If ye love me, keep my commandments.

1 John 2:3 - And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

B. Keep – I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Psalm 140:4 - Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

Isaiah 26:3 - Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:

John 6:39 - And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

2 Thessalonians 3:1 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

Jude 1:24 - Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

C. Know – 11 Behold, I come quickly:

Philippians 4:5 - Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

Hebrews 10:25 - Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

James 5:8 - Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

D. Kingship – hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Job 17:9 - The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Psalm 119:33 - Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.

John 8:31 - Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

Romans 2:7 - To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

1 Peter 1:13 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;