PERGAMUM: THE CHURCH WITH FALSE TEACHING (4 OF 8)
by Josh Malone
Scripture: Revelations 2:12-17
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Pergamum: The Church With False Teaching (4 of 8)
Series: In Our Midst: Jesus and the 7 Churches of Revelation
Josh Malone
Revelations 2:12-17
Every one of us are building our lives this morning. We are have beliefs and view points that are rooted in something. Even if you are not a Christian today, you have a worldview, you have values, things you believe to be true and what you believe to be true shapes your choices, and ultimately determines how you live your life.
Here we believe and teach the Bible. That would be what I would call one of our core values. We are Christ-Centered church and we believe Christ wants us to adhere to, follow, build our lives on the truth of His Word both corporately and individually.
The truth is many times people may be tempted to twist God’s Word to say what we want it to say to satisfy personal desires or capitulate to cultural demands. That is what false teaching usually does, it lures people away from God’s Word or twists and uses God’s Word to satisfy self or serve culture. Sometimes people strive to make the truth more PROFITABLE or more PALATABLE and ultimately twists the truth into a lie.
Today we are read about a church that had people in their church who were holding to false teaching. They had to decide as a church once again what is going to be absolute truth. What trumps all? What will we corporately and individually build our lives on?
Let’s look at this church and hopefully look at ourselves and search our lives for false teachings that need to be repented of and choose to submit to the Sword of the Lord above all other swords. Let’s look and make sure we don’t have a perversion of living in our life that may be rooted in a perversion of teaching.
Rev. 2:12-17- “And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.
[13] “‘I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipa ...
Series: In Our Midst: Jesus and the 7 Churches of Revelation
Josh Malone
Revelations 2:12-17
Every one of us are building our lives this morning. We are have beliefs and view points that are rooted in something. Even if you are not a Christian today, you have a worldview, you have values, things you believe to be true and what you believe to be true shapes your choices, and ultimately determines how you live your life.
Here we believe and teach the Bible. That would be what I would call one of our core values. We are Christ-Centered church and we believe Christ wants us to adhere to, follow, build our lives on the truth of His Word both corporately and individually.
The truth is many times people may be tempted to twist God’s Word to say what we want it to say to satisfy personal desires or capitulate to cultural demands. That is what false teaching usually does, it lures people away from God’s Word or twists and uses God’s Word to satisfy self or serve culture. Sometimes people strive to make the truth more PROFITABLE or more PALATABLE and ultimately twists the truth into a lie.
Today we are read about a church that had people in their church who were holding to false teaching. They had to decide as a church once again what is going to be absolute truth. What trumps all? What will we corporately and individually build our lives on?
Let’s look at this church and hopefully look at ourselves and search our lives for false teachings that need to be repented of and choose to submit to the Sword of the Lord above all other swords. Let’s look and make sure we don’t have a perversion of living in our life that may be rooted in a perversion of teaching.
Rev. 2:12-17- “And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.
[13] “‘I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipa ...
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