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Revelation 2:18-3:6

Sunday, July 11th, 2010
 
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[18] “To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.

[19] I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.

[20] Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.

[21] I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.

[22] So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.

[23] I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.

[24] Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets (I will not impose any other burden on you):

[25] Only hold on to what you have until I come.

[26] To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations —

[27] ‘He will rule them with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like pottery’ — just as I have received authority from my Father.

[28] I will also give him the morning star.

[29] He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Revelation 3

[1] “To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

[2] Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.

[3] Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.

[4] Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy.

[5] He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.

[6] He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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1 John 5:1-21

Sunday, May 9th, 2010
 
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[1] Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.

[2] This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.

[3] This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome,

[4] for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.

[5] Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

[6] This is the one who came by water and blood —Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

[7] For there are three that testify:

[8] the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.

[9] We accept man’s testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son.

[10] Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son.

[11] And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

[12] He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

[13] I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

[14] This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

[15] And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

[16] If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray and God will give him life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that he should pray about that.

[17] All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.

[18] We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him.

[19] We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

[20] We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true—even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

[21] Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.

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1 John 3:11-24

Sunday, April 25th, 2010
 
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[11] This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

[12] Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.

[13] Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

[14] We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death.

[15] Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.

[16] This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

[17] If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

[18] Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

[19] This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence

[20] whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

[21] Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God

[22] and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.

[23] And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

[24] Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

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1 John 2:1-14

Sunday, March 28th, 2010
 
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[1] My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense —Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

[2] He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

[3] We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands.

[4] The man who says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

[5] But if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him:

[6] Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.

[7] Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.

[8] Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.

[9] Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.

[10] Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble.

[11] But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.

[12] I write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.

[13] I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, dear children, because you have known the Father.

[14] I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

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