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Be Zealous

5/26/2019

Sermon Passage: Revelation 3:14-22
Sermon Title: Be Zealous
Sermon By: Pastor Kevin
Sermon Outline:

Apathy stems from the Lord not being Lord
1. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing (17)
2. Not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked (17)
God does not leave you alone
1. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich (18)
2. White garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen (18)
3. Salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see (18)
Be zealous and repent
1. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline (19)
2. We need works to come naturally from loving the Lord

5/19/2019

Sermon Passage: Revelation 3:7-13
Sermon Title: Hold Fast
Sermon By: Pastor Kevin
Sermon Outline:

The path is narrow
1. The key of David (7)
  1. Promised covenant with David that one of His offspring will rule on a throne forever (2 Samuel 7)
2. Only God "opens and no one will shut" (7)
3. Only God "shuts and no one opens" (7)
God tells us to be on alert
1. "I will make those... who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie" (9)
2. "I am coming soon" (11)
"Hold Fast" (11)
1. "... you have little power, and yet you kept my word and have not denied my name" (8)
2. "So that no one may seize your crown" (11)

5/12/2019

Sermon Passage: Revelation 3:1-6
Sermon Title: Wake Up
Sermon By: Pastor Kevin
Sermon Outline:

Thoughts of man versus knowledge of God
1. Reputation from man (verse 1) versus sight of God (verse 2)
2. Knowing God is not the end (Romans 1:21)
Strengthen what remains
1. There is urgency
2. We are called and commanded to respond
3. We should bear fruit, not pursue imitations of parts
Rid yourselves of idleness
1. Idleness and waiting are different
2. Idleness and resting are different
3. God does not want us to manage sins or bargain with God

5/5/2019

Sermon Passage: Revelation 2:18-29
Sermon Title: Faithful
Sermon By: Pastor Kevin
Sermon Outline:

Discern where you are compromising
1. Compromise of Jezebel and Thyatira
2. Adultery is both speaking of idolatry and sexual immorality
There is limited time to repent
1. He already knows and will make clear your sinfulness (Revelation 2:18;232)
  1. Not refining fire, but revealing fire that removes all layers
2. He gives time to change, but know it is limited
When you are in sin, you are able to choose righteousness
1. Discern the Lord
  1. You can acknowledge, discern (dokimazo) wrongly (Romans 12:2)
2. There is hope if and only if you repent