Letter to the church in Pergamos (Part 5)
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Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Intro: Through our study of the letter to the church in Pergamos, we see the church marry the world, and the union gives birth to a counterfeit church which we see usurp authority from Christ and the Bible, and begin to teach doctrines that don’t have anything to do with Christianity. If you remember that these doctrines were propagated by Satan to cause the church to fall into idolatry and fornication so that God would judge them just like he did int eh days of Baalam, who taught Balac.
Correction: “Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.”
Who is saying this? _____________.
We must never forget that the God of love is also a Just and Righteous God! I know we realize that He could have just removed them, but instead He was gracious, and He offered them an opportunity to repent.
Acts 26:18 “To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.”
Acts 26:19–20 “Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.”
Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
If these people in the Pergamos church period had heeded the Lord’s counsel in verse 16, and they had repented, the whole dark ages, with all of its evil, and bloodshed and death could have been avoided.
Challenge: Revelation 2:17 “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”
The hidden manna - (Obviously a contrast with what the people were eating with the people in verse 14 with something that He is giving them to eat.)
And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations. As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
An overcomer is not someone that eats something that the church is offering which is supposed to represent Christ, but an overcomer represents that person that comes to the bread of life Himself, and partakes of the bread that offers them eternal life, in which is all the sustenance therein to live fruitfully and to abound victoriously.
The white stone -
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.