Title: In Our Weakness He Is Strong (7)
Series: Seven Churches of Revelation
Author: Tim Melton
Text: Revelation 3:7-13
Can you remember a time in your life when you felt that you were not strong enough to face a situation? You wanted to prevail, but you just didn't have the strength that was required. You did not know how you were going to get through it. In that moment did weakness feel like a blessing or a curse?
The Bible shows our weakness to be a door way to God's strength. This is one of the main, recurring themes of scripture. We see it over and over again. God used Moses, the exiled 60-year-old shepherd who had been banished to the wilderness, to lead several million Hebrews out of Egypt and slavery. God gave David, the shepherd boy, the strength to kill Goliath the Philistine, super-warrior. God used Esther, the Jewish orphan girl who became queen of all of Persia, and risking all, she saved the Jews. Gideon, the youngest son, from the weakest clan of the weakest tribe led 300 fighters using torches and trumpets to defeat an army who numbered in the 100,000s. God used Mary, the young virgin, and Joseph, the young carpenter to parent Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World. Time and again we read how in weakness, God is strong.
In Revelation 3:7-13 we find the same theme again as we look at Jesus' words to the church in a city called Philadelphia.
The city of Philadelphia was a city in Asia Minor. It was 48 kilometers southeast of Sardis. It had been founded by Attalus, the king of Pergamum. King Attalus' love for his brother, Eumenes, was so well known that the name of this city was modeled after the word Philadelphos which meant "one who loves his brother" of "brotherly love."
The city was on the imperial road and the large trade route that had separated Greece to the west and Asia to the east. It was located on the border of Mysia, Lydia and Phrygia (map) and had at one time been given the task of ushering Greek culture and languag ...
Series: Seven Churches of Revelation
Author: Tim Melton
Text: Revelation 3:7-13
Can you remember a time in your life when you felt that you were not strong enough to face a situation? You wanted to prevail, but you just didn't have the strength that was required. You did not know how you were going to get through it. In that moment did weakness feel like a blessing or a curse?
The Bible shows our weakness to be a door way to God's strength. This is one of the main, recurring themes of scripture. We see it over and over again. God used Moses, the exiled 60-year-old shepherd who had been banished to the wilderness, to lead several million Hebrews out of Egypt and slavery. God gave David, the shepherd boy, the strength to kill Goliath the Philistine, super-warrior. God used Esther, the Jewish orphan girl who became queen of all of Persia, and risking all, she saved the Jews. Gideon, the youngest son, from the weakest clan of the weakest tribe led 300 fighters using torches and trumpets to defeat an army who numbered in the 100,000s. God used Mary, the young virgin, and Joseph, the young carpenter to parent Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World. Time and again we read how in weakness, God is strong.
In Revelation 3:7-13 we find the same theme again as we look at Jesus' words to the church in a city called Philadelphia.
The city of Philadelphia was a city in Asia Minor. It was 48 kilometers southeast of Sardis. It had been founded by Attalus, the king of Pergamum. King Attalus' love for his brother, Eumenes, was so well known that the name of this city was modeled after the word Philadelphos which meant "one who loves his brother" of "brotherly love."
The city was on the imperial road and the large trade route that had separated Greece to the west and Asia to the east. It was located on the border of Mysia, Lydia and Phrygia (map) and had at one time been given the task of ushering Greek culture and languag ...
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