Two Symptoms of SELF ABSORPTION & SELF INDULGENCE :

How we invest our TIME

How we invest our MONEY

A Prophetic word for UC (May 2008):

God is moving on the Westside of Vancouver creating a spiritual hunger that He is

intending to fill. He is opening up people’s hearts.

PRAY: for revival

PERCEIVE: others around us and God at work

PREPARE: equip to bless and to speak to others

PARTICIPATE: not just contribute, sacrifice

Evaluated on TWO core issues:

Unswerving Devotion to Christ

Readiness for victory in the task ahead through Faithful Witness

1. Description of Christ

2. Commendation/s

3. Censure/s

4. Command / Instruction

5. Promise

6. Charge to “hear” (listen and obey)

−Hard work, perseverance, endured, not grown weary.

−Faithful through afflictions and poverty

−Remain true to my name; did not renounce your faith.

−Love, faith, service, perseverance; more than at first

−A few have not soiled their clothes [i.e. Dead faith]

−Kept my word, not denied my name, endured patiently

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EphesuEphesuss

SmyrnaSmyrna

PergamPergamumum

ThyatirThyatiraa

SardisSardis

PhiladePhiladelphialphia

LaodiceLaodiceaa

−Lost their initial love for Christ

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−False teaching (Balaam); food sacrificed to idols; sexual imm.

−Sexual immorality (Jezebel)

−You are dead. Your deeds are unfinished.

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−You are LUKEWARM. Wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, naked.

EphesuEphesuss

SmyrnaSmyrna

PergamPergamumum

ThyatirThyatiraa

SardisSardis

PhiladePhiladelphialphia

LaodiceLaodiceaa

−REPENT ! Return to your first works.

−Do not be afraid (of suffering); be faithful even to death.

−REPENT !

−Hold on to what you have.

−Remember (teaching), hold it fast; REPENT !

−Hold on to what you have.

− (I knock) Open the door !

EphesuEphesuss

SmyrnaSmyrna

PergamPergamumum

ThyatirThyatiraa

SardisSardis

PhiladePhiladelphialphia

LaodiceLaodiceaa

−Given the right to eat from the Tree of Life.

−Not hurt by the “second death” [eternal punishment]

−Given – hidden manna, white stone, new name.

−Given – authority over nations, morning star [Christ’s glory ?]

−Names – never blotted out of the Book of Life, acknowledged

−Made pillars in the Temple of my God with names written on

−Given the right to sit with Jesus on his throne.

EphesuEphesuss

SmyrnaSmyrna

PergamPergamumum

ThyatirThyatiraa

SardisSardis

PhiladePhiladelphialphia

LaodiceLaodiceaa