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Church.

And we're in Revelation 3 and we're going to look at verses 7 through 13.

Now remember we usually do this, we do the destination of the letter the description of Christ and then we do the diagnosis or the denunciation.

But let me say before we begin, what you going to notice, when we read these verses is Christ, says nothing bad about this church.

There's not a single thing bad about this church.

There was one other church that he didn't say anything bad about in that was Smyrna and they were the suffering Church.

And so they were suffering real bad.

He had nothing bad to say to them will Philadelphia is another church that he has nothing bad to say.

So as we read this letter and as we study today, let's see what we at new Grace can take from this church at Philadelphia.

And do maybe some of the things or have some of the attitude or character or characteristics that they have.

So let's start in verse 7 of chapter 3 and we're going to read down through verse 30 and to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, right?

These things says, he who is Holy, he who is true and watch this phrase.

He who has the Key of David wonder what that he who opens, and no one shots and shuts and no one opens.

Then he says in verse 8, I know your works.

See, I have set before you an open door and no one shut.

Can shut it for you have a little strength and you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

Indeed, I will make those are the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews and are not but lie, indeed, I will make them come and worship before your feet and to know That I have loved you because you have kept my command to persevere.

I also will keep you From the hour of trial, which shall come upon the whole world.

If I was you I would underline that whole phrase right there.

He says, I'm going to keep you from the hour of trial, which shall come upon the whole world to test those who dwell on the earth.

I wonder what he's talkin about the hour of trial that's coming out in the whole world.

What's what's going to happen in the seven years of what tribulation?

He's talkin about the tribulation.

The hour of trial?

He says I will keep you from, he's talkin to a church.

How you going to keep a church from the our trial?

By the rapture.

by taking the church off the Earth, so you won't have to go through the Great Tribulation Alright, verse 11 behold, I am coming quickly, holdfast what you have that no one may take your crown where you don't want anybody to take your crown but he's not talkin about losing your salvation there, but we'll, we'll cover that when we get to he who overcomes, I will make him a pillar and the Temple of my God and he shall go out no more.

I will write on him the name of my God one day, the name of the city of my God to names and nude Rose always comes down out of Heaven, from my God and I will ride on him.

My new name.

He's going to give us three names.

Three names he's going to give us and we'll talk more about that at the end.

Well if I could pick one of the seven churches that I want to be a member of, as I read these about these churches, it would be the church at Philadelphia.

The only one, like I said beside Smyrna that nothing is negative.

It said about But what I want us to do is to look at why the Lord commended this church and such an encouraging manner.

So, let's start as we do every week the destination of the letter, you see it versus 7 to the angel of the church in Philadelphia.

Like I said, it's the modern city of Eliezer in Turkey.

He will know who Philadelphia is named after that's not Rocky, it's not Sylvester Stallone not that a Dallas Philadelphia.

Has he was the king of pergamon And he founded this city and it was named after him.

Now we have a city today in our country Philadelphia and this known as the city of what brotherly love and that's what the original Greek.

Meaning meant brotherly love it occur.

Several times in the New Testament and always refers to the love and affection between Christians is what it refers to.

But from a prophetic perspective, the church in Philadelphia represents the universal church that began.

Say at the beginning of the nineteenth century and it goes up until the Rapture of the church.

So you could say, well we're living in that time now.

We are and it overlaps with the church at laodicea that we'll talk about next week.

so, if you want to look at it and in this way, Philadelphia represents The Modern Age of the spread of the Gospel like in the 18th 19th century, the great Awakenings and things like that, when the gospel just spread throughout Europe and came over here to America, this is what Philadelphia represent.

So that's the destination of the letter.

Now let's look at the designation number to declination of the Lord or the description of Christ.

Let's look at this.

As he did, in all previous letters Christ, begins to characterize his own self.

And I look what he says here in the second part of her seven.

These things says, he who is Holy One, he who is true too, and he who has the Key of David who opens, and no one shuts and shuts, and no one opens.

So that's three things.

He says about himself.

Let's look at all of them.

Briefly number one, we we need to understand that Jesus is Holy, what does the word?

Holy mean in Scripture me set apart, set apart for a unique use to be set apart by God.

God the Father set, Jesus apart to do what to come to this earth and due in to die for the sins of the world and he lived a perfect life to do that.

So he was wholly, he was, he was pure.

He's the only begotten Son of God and Peter tells us He who has called us is called holy, he said, so should we be wholly?

So what Jesus is doing, because Christ is wholly, he has a right to call his church to be holy as well.

So that's what he says here.

He says, he who is Holy but then look at secondly, he says he who is true that word true their means genuine.

So it's a reference to Christ genuineness, he was not only holy set apart without sin to God.

He was also true and genuine and full of Integrity.

I remember Jesus saying in John chapter 14, IM the way, and what truth.

So right here says he, who is true.

I am the way, the truth and the life.

When I was thinking about that this week, I think, have y'all already started seeing the political commercials on TV, don't you just hate them?

Ladies Ron all the time and I was thinking myself, Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life Jesus doesn't spend his words like politicians, but when he says something, it is the truth.

When Jesus says, yes, he means.

Yes, when he says no, he means, no, that's who Jesus is, he doesn't spend things.

Nice of the you don't blow smoke.

That's exactly right now.

Look, thirdly what?

It says, he who has the Key of David, who opens, and no one shots and shuts.

And no one opened this is talking about Christ sovereignty.

Jesus is sovereign.

The Key of David.

Now, what in the world is that?

Well, it refers to a man in the Old Testament, his name was a like him.

And the Bible says, and Isaiah 22, I believe it's verse 22.

That a lock him.

He carried the key of the House of David.

Now, what does that mean?

Well, in other words, he had the authority over all the Treasures of the king.

He was only one had a key.

If he wanted someone to see the treasures of David, a like him, had the key.

He could open it up.

So this reference in the Old Testament is describing Christ Authority.

This is Sovereign Authority.

And power that Christ is communicating to the church.

He's the one that has the power to open doors and shut doors.

Amen.

He's the one that does that.

We can't do that here at work.

We are doing a healthy Church initiative and we want to reach our community, but it would be a terrible thing.

If we tried to open doors, That were shocked.

We need to walk through open doors, the doors that Christ open.