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Where are we going… where have we been?. Eph e sus. P e rgamos. Sardis. 90-200 A.D. 325-500 A.D. 1000-1500 A.D. Smyrna. Thyatira. 200-325 A.D. 500-1000 A.D. England. John Wycliffe. Bohemia. John Huss. Italy. Jerome Savonarola. G e rmany. Martin Luther. Swiss. Ulrich Zwingli.
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Ephesus • Pergamos • Sardis 90-200 A.D. 325-500 A.D. 1000-1500 A.D. • Smyrna • Thyatira 200-325 A.D. 500-1000 A.D.
England John Wycliffe • Bohemia John Huss • Italy Jerome Savonarola • Germany Martin Luther • Swiss Ulrich Zwingli John Calvin • Geneva John Knox • Scots
Ephesus “Montanists” • Smyrna “Novatians” • Pergamos “Donatists” “Paulicians” • Thyatira • Sardis
Sardis- “Faithful Few” Cathari, Bogomils, Abigenses, Waldenses, Henricians, Bulgarians, Petrobusians, Arnoldists, Lollards, Hussites “Ana Baptist”
The Roman Catholic Church on Wycliffe: “Wycliffe, by thus translating the Bible made it property of the masses and common to all and EVEN WOMEN who were able to read”
Psalms 12:6-7 – “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever”.
The Wycliffe Bible (1382) • The Tyndale Bible (1525) • The Coverdale Bible (1535) • The Matthew Bible (1537) • The Great Bible (1539) • The Geneva Bible (1525) • The Bishop’s Bible (1539) • The King James Bible (1611)
Where are we going…where have we been? • Philadelphia “SeventhandSettled”
Where are we going…where have we been? • Philadelphia “Brotherly Love andPhiladelphian Power”
Ephesus • Pergamos • Sardis 90-200 A.D. 325-500 A.D. 1000-1500 A.D. • Smyrna • Thyatira • Philadelphia 200-325 A.D. 500-1000 A.D. 1500-1900 A.D.
“Faithful Few”-1600-2008 Separatists, Norrisites, Dispensationalists, Fundamentalists “Baptist”
Ephesus “Fully Purposed” • Smyrna “Bitterness/Death” • Pergamos “Much Marriage” • Thyatira “Odor of Affliction” • Sardis “Red Ones” • Philadelphia “Brotherly Love”
Where are we going…where have we been? • Philadelphia “Brotherly Love andPhiladelphian Power”
Philadelphia • Commission • Character • Commendation • Condemnation • Correction • Call • Challenge
Colossians 1:12-13 – “Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son”
Hebrews 11:10– “For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God”. 2 Corinthians 4:17-18– “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal”.
1st John 2:15 – “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him”.
Where are we going…where have we been? • Philadelphia “Brotherly Love andPhiladelphian Power”
Ephesus • Pergamos • Sardis 90-200 A.D. 325-500 A.D. 1000-1500 A.D. • Smyrna • Thyatira • Philadelphia 200-325 A.D. 500-1000 A.D. 1500-1900 A.D.
Revelation 3:7 – “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;”
Acts 13:22 – “And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.”
John 1:1 – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Revelation 3:7 – “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;”
Acts 10:34 – “Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons”
Where are we going…where have we been? • Philadelphia “Brotherly Love andPhiladelphian Power”
Revelation 3:7 – “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;”
England(During the Philadelphia Church Period) : - Owns 1/4th of the worlds land mass.- Over 700, 000 people were British subjects.- British Authority Kings and Queens
Where are we going…where have we been? • Philadelphia “Brotherly Love andPhiladelphian Power”
Genesis 9:27 – “God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant”.
Where are we going…where have we been? • Philadelphia “Brotherly Love andPhiladelphian Power”