And he was apologizing, but he went into the house of Cornelius. 12 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. The Christian must be ready to open whenever he hears his Lord knocking ( Luke 12:36). [1.] Discipline your son and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart" ( Proverbs 29:15; Proverbs 29:17). Let them cry "Lo here, or lo there," but believe them not. The problem with the Protestant Reformation is that it wasn't complete. She is using here opportunities of service. Spiritually speaking, the Risen Christ declares that there was not a more poverty-stricken community. "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars." 211-17; Thomas, Revelation 1-7, pp. Trench says: "The beginning of all true amendment is to see ourselves as we are." It is implied indeed in the analogy of the Old Testament; for God did not always address His people there. He must, therefore, be ever on the watch. (ii) We cannot say that that meaning is impossible and yet it does not seem to fit the context, for the atmosphere of the passage is not so much warning as love. On the other hand Christ said in view of the sufferer, "Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days." "I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King" ( Isaiah 43:15). you have kept the word . God is testing you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? How came this? Ephesus does not, nor Smyrna, nor Pergamos: the only semblance of it is in threats of present judgment. that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God." Victory lies before you. Judas lost his place to Matthias ( Acts 1:25-26). We will take you to heaven next Sunday night.Oh God, give us ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the church. The hour needs its man quite as much as the man needs the hour. For this we must stand up and fight to the death. The holy pilgrims were not so rude as to tell him to go; they only talked about heavenly things, which he did not understand, and he went of his own accord. This is given up now. It is not known to what trial the speaker refers. For a considerable period of human life, it may be, God does not give to all of us a field of usefulness, but he provides a field of trial. All eye-salves in the ancient world caused the eyes to smart at their first application, and Laodicea had no wish to see itself as it was. This word, the churches, in the Philadelphian state, will keep pure and incorrupt, and observe the ordinances of it according to the directions given in it; and will believe the promise of Christ's personal coming, and patiently wait for it: wherefore, Christ promises as follows. Christ has opened the door for these Gentile Christians, and no Jew is able to close it. Philadelphia is one of seven churches addressed with its own letter in Revelation 2 & 3. In early Christian writings we read that Satan is the arche ( G746) of death, that is to say, death takes its origin in him; and that God is the arche ( G746) of all things, that is, all things find their beginning in him. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." No such condition appears afterwards. Except the common-places of controversy with Protestants, they know little of Scripture. As God bears testimony in his word to his own dear Son, believe that testimony; accept the Saviour whom he has given, and find immediate salvation: find it to-night. His having the seven Spirits of God was distinct from the Ephesian picture; nor is anything at all similar in the description of the Lord Jesus given before. The Risen Christ is telling the lethargic Sardians to remember the thrill with which they first heard the good news. 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." In his book Out of Nazareth Donald Baillie cites three witnesses to the uniqueness of this conception. Those who keep God's word, shall themselves be kept from temptation. Not at all: the Christian ought to remember that he is a heavenly man, not an earthly one. The rest of the description is out of chapter one. Nay, but as we cling to God in feebleness, the divine strength of the word is infused into our souls. In the Greek of the Septuagint the word for love is agapan ( G25) which indicates the unconquerable attitude of goodwill which nothing can turn to hate; but it is a word which maybe has more of the head than the heart in it; and in the quotation the Risen Christ changes agapan ( G25) to philein ( G5368) which is the most tender affection. In fact, the principal burden of the great prophecies about to be unveiled was that of strengthening and encouraging the church against that very event. The Pastoral Epistles describe those who had drifted away from the true faith by saying that they had a form of godliness but denied its power ( 2 Timothy 3:5). When the prodigal son returns, it is the best robe that is put upon him ( Luke 15:22). (1.) But you have a few people in Sardis who have not defiled their garments and they will walk with me in white raiment, because they are worthy. The real innovators were those who departed by slip or by will from the very words of the Spirit; and the arbitrariness now would be in maintaining what has not sufficient authority, against that which is as certain as can be. It is not merely that He died this is not what He says here, though it is said elsewhere, and very truly. This phrase says to every one of us: "All these things are meant for you.". It is only by the grace of God that we can escape the death of sin. In order to defend themselves on a religions footing, men fall back on a system of ordinances and of the law. "He that believeth hath everlasting life," for "this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." I shall put it home to you, dear friends, again. In the Sunday-school there are little children that you will be the means of bringing to Christ if you take a class; and out at the street corners there are folks that you will turn to the Saviour if you have but the courage to stand up and preach. Exodus 28:36). I do not doubt that God intended this, and that we are thus given a double aspect of the book. Believers on earth will meet the Lord in the air and thus escape the hour of trial . But how are we to describe or understand "the word of God"? Behold, I will give you those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who call themselves Jews and who are not, but who lie. Whatever novelty comes up, keep to the word of Jesus! Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, hold fast, repent. Regard the new teachers no more than you would the wise men of Gotham, for those who oppose themselves to God's word are fools. I trust that many of us can say that the doctrines of grace are our jewels, our estate, yes, our very life. Because you say, I am rich and I have acquired riches, and I need nothing, and are quite unaware that it is you who are the wretched and the pitiable one, the poor and the blind and the naked one, I advise you to buy from me gold that has been refined by fire that you may be rich, white raiment that you may be clothed and that the shame of your nakedness may not be openly displayed, and eye-salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see. "Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers; with their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet" ( Isaiah 49:23). It has been said that Sardis stood like some gigantic watch-tower, guarding the Hermus valley. I hope for that day. It is a formed and known party of the highest possible pretensions. "These things saith he that is holy, he that is true." True grace, though weak, has the divine approbation; but, though Christ accepts a little strength, yet believers should not rest satisfied in a little, but should strive to grow in grace, to be strong in faith, giving glory to God. It is now Christ Himself, and this as One that faith discovers in new beauty, not dependent merely on visions of glory which had been seen before, but Christ as He really is in Himself "He that is holy, he that is true." Here observe it is not now a trial by false apostles. First I would remind you that our text has in it A WORD OF PRAISE. What the application of this may be depends on the context where it is used. If the Lord has rebuked you, then be thankful He loves you. That can happen with the tasks of God. (a) Christ is looking for something from us. It is eternal and in them the Spirit still speaks to us. [3.] Shebna lost his place to Eliakim ( Isaiah 22:15-25). It does not mean He would preserve them through it (the posttribulation position) or remove them during it (the midtribulation position). Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found your works (complete) before God ( Revelation 3:2 ). It was all over with them, unless they judged themselves, and in the power of the Holy Ghost Christ regained His place. Just open the door and He will come in and become one with you. Here again it is all comprehensive. It is not a question of someone stealing their crown but of God taking it from them and giving it to someone else, because they were not worthy to wear it. "What thou seest, write in a book, and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. Here, perhaps, all that is implied is, that the trial would be very extensive or general - so much so as to embrace the world, as the word was understood by those to whom the epistle was addressed. It is true that neither of these new names lasted and "Philadelphia" was restored. The words of men are trifling in value; it takes a mass of them to come to the value of a farthing; but any one word of the Lord is worth a mint of gold. He puts His voucher on the book from the beginning. God has a task for every man; but it may be that the man proves himself unfit for the task and it is given to another. (i) It may be the door of missionary opportunity. [Note: See Stanton, pp. 5:2 + ). It is much better to take this saying of Christ as expressing the appeal of the lover of the souls of men. The only possible way I can understand of exempting any from the time is by taking them out of the scene. (i) It has been taken as a warning that the end is near, and that the Coming of Christ is at hand. Writing to the Corinthians of the work which lies ahead of him, Paul says: "For a wide door for effective work has opened to me" ( 1 Corinthians 16:9). Their approach is silent and unobserved, until a man finds himself without warning facing eternity. For every position we are set in, no matter where it is or what, there is always the gracious power of God as our resource; but it is to sustain the person walking in consonance with the relationship in which God has been pleased to put him. Here it is what God was going to do for His glory as the rejected man. I warrant you if you get faith into your soul, and the word becomes your joy and comfort, you will never let it go. This was a new kind of evil altogether. Shocks were an everyday occurrence. Verse Revelation 3:10. He who was emphatically the apostle of the uncircumcision was the appointed witness of Christ to those who had been Jews. No man can shut it. I have no intention to enter at any length on this way of looking at the churches as quite by-gone, and the prophecy as at once flowing on; but I mention it because it seems due to truth to name this as well as the other, according to which "what shall be after these" is when the church condition is no longer applicable at all. I am supposing now a scale which attracts the world's attention. Galatians 2:9; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:19-22; 1 Peter 2:4-10). Perhaps this name is a symbol of His character, which overcomers can appreciate only when we see Him (cf. She receives no word of blame. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you. The road from Ephesus to the east and to Syria was the most important in Asia. [49] G. R. Beasley-Murray, op. "Thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith." iii. If God is the God of Amen, he is utterly to be relied upon. Many say that we ought to keep "abreast of the times," whatever that may mean; and that there is a certain "spirit of the age," to which we should be subject. It is the second meaning which is intended here. if Christ be the rule of life for the Christian, and the law be the rule of death for a Jew, it is evident that for a Christian to abandon that for this tends to apostacy. It is the hope of the Psalmist that the wicked will be blotted out of the book of the living ( Psalms 69:28). Even in the gospel, which is so fragrant with His divine love, we have the frequent not to say constant admonition of this remarkable position which Christ takes. Laodicea has the grim distinction of being the only Church of which the Risen Christ has nothing good to say. Christ knocks and a man can answer or refuse to answer. Jesus declares Himself to be all this; yea, more than this "the living one, and I became dead." II. Christ calls the church to that duty which he before promised he would enable her to do, and that is, to persevere, to hold fast that which she had. There is a doctrine known as the manifested sons of God that advocates the super sainthood. A Definitive Study of the Rapture of the Church, pp. The faithful will share Christ's power at His coming, and be associated with Himself in His kingdom. "Let your garments be always white," said the preacher, "and let not oil be lacking on your head" ( Ecclesiastes 9:8). (iii) The Christian must be on the watch against temptation "Watch and pray," said Jesus, "that you may not enter into temptation" ( Matthew 26:41). The duty itself: "Hold fast that which thou hast, that faith, that truth, that strength of grace, that zeal, that love to the brethren; thou hast been possessed of this excellent treasure, hold it fast." In this there seems to be couched a gentle reproof: "Thou hast a little strength, a little grace, which, though it be not proportionate to the wide door of opportunity which I have opened to thee, yet is true grace, and has kept thee faithful." I will not be long on the next point, while I just remind you that there is A WORD OF PROSPECT: "Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word." "Woe to you," said Jesus, "when all men speak well of you!" Is not this exactly what Romanism does? The first of these epistles to the angel of the church in Ephesus denounced "the deeds of the Nicolaitans;" but now the iniquity in question (Antinomianism it would seem) had become a doctrine. In the gospel it is said, God gives Him to have life in Himself. It is a tremendous pagan celebration originating in Babylon adopted by Rome called Saturnalia. James urges patient endurance on his people because the coming of the Lord is drawing near ( James 5:8); soon their distresses will be at an end. The hour of temptation - A time of sore and peculiar trial which might have proved too much for their strength. The voice of this mighty angel is also similar to that of the strong angel who asked Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals? The Lord bids them in effect to have nothing to do with her, and He will give the true power when He takes it Himself. The Risen Christ bids the Philadelphians hold to what they have, that no one may take their crown ( Revelation 3:11). [Note: See Charles C. Ryrie, Basic Theology, pp. Tiberius, the Roman Emperor, in his kindness remitted all tribute for five years and gave a donation of 10,000,000 sesterces, that is, L400,000. Who then can escape? It is not that the time is actually come so that we must go through all or any part; but the time is at hand. If you only influence one child, who can tell what that child may be? Revelation 3:8 , Revelation 3:10 . [Note: For a study of the references to the temple in Revelation from a Reformed perspective, see Simon J. Kistemaker, "The Temple in the Apocalypse," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 43:3 (September 2000):433-41. You will be shielded from half the temptations that fret and worry professors if you take your place and keep it against all comers. Daniel is clothed in purple by Belshazzar ( Daniel 5:29). I do not speak of justification by faith; for even Luther, as I think, never got thoroughly clear as to the truth of it. (c) In any land and time white is the colour of purity, and the white robes may stand for the purity whose reward is to see God. It is in vain therefore to look for a formal obliteration of these co-ordinate conditions, which cannot be till the Lord comes. But even this is not enough for grace. He is not under law but under grace. Revelation 1 Commentary Summary: Read Revelation 1 KJV along with a helpful commentary. Even in Sardis there are the faithful few. "Thou hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name." This clearly is what He was on the earth. I take it to be this: that the Lord had in view not necessarily an elder, nor a teacher, but one who might be either or both, and before His mind truly represented, and was in a special way bound up with the responsibility of the state of the assembly. The reason is manifest, because the way in which we are called to walk is always according to the place and relations in which we stand. "In him," says Paul, "all things were created" ( Colossians 1:15; Colossians 1:18). (3) The Spirit of Counsel: A lifeless dying church or individual needs to heed the counsel of God. Such I believe the promise here to import. It was in an area where there was a very large Jewish population. Accordingly the apocalyptic visions can be slighted only by ignorant unbelief; for they no less than the gospel or epistles are here styled "the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ." When he pleases, he shuts the door of opportunity and the door of utterance, and leaves obstinate sinners shut up in the hardness of their hearts; he shuts the door of church-fellowship against unbelievers and profane persons; and he shuts the door of heaven against the foolish virgins who have slept away their day of grace, and against the workers of iniquity, how vain and confident soever they may be. In Revelation 3:9 the promise of the Risen Christ is that some day the Jews who slander the Christians will kneel before them. I should suppose that after having given a sufficient trial to that manner of procedure, it would be quite as well at times to try another, and to rejoice in everything which we see of grace in our brethren, and sometimes to thank God in their hearing for what we perceive in them that we are sure is the fruit of the Spirit. I am coming quickly. ], Furthermore, it is not just the testing God promised to deliver them from but the "hour" of testing, the time in history during which these trials will come (cf. Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. It was picked up by the Protestants. You will sing as we did just now, and as I sang very heartily, "Let all the forms that men devise Assault my soul with treacherous art I'll call them vanity and lies, And bind the gospel to my heart.". The unwelcome visitation of a thief would be utterly incongruous if they were enjoying the sweet hope according to His own word, that He is coming for them quickly. There will be that day that will come that the Jews will recognize that Jesus is the Messiah. It is the same idea again; it is as if the mark of God was upon Israel so that all men may know that they are his people. "The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants." We can hardly suppose that this name was given to it after it received the Christian religion, and that it was so called from that Christian affection that all believers have, and should have, one for another, as the children of one Father and the brethren of Christ; but rather that it was its ancient name, on account of the love and kindness which the citizens had and showed to each other as a civil fraternity. If a disputer can once get you away from the Bible, he can swallow you alive; but if you will keep to Scripture, and handle this weapon, "It is written; it is written," the disputer may be the arch-fiend himself, but he cannot possibly get the victory over you. Saul lost his place to David ( 1 Samuel 16:1, 1 Samuel 16:13). Another strong angel = sends us back to Revelation 5:2. It was precisely because the church was faithful in time of trial that Christ in turn will be faithful to them. The connection of the Son with creation is frequently made in the New Testament. The conclusion of this epistle, Revelation 3:12; Revelation 3:13. THE LETTER TO PHILADELPHIA ( Revelation 3:7-13 ). There is the most careful exclusion of His heavenly position from the relationships of the Lord Jesus that are here brought before us. When a bushel is full of wheat the good corn keeps the chaff out of the measure. It is not what I think; it is not what some greater man may think; it is not what may be the consensus of all the enlightened minds of the period; the decision lies with what the Lord has spoken. 149. Balderdash. The Lord at the close gives a promise suited to the condition. This meaning is particularly appropriate for Philadelphia. Jesus doesn't care. (i) Watchfulness should be the constant attitude of the Christian life. (a) He must have seen with his own eyes that of which he tells. It is a question of faith in God. To those who have been true the promise is that they will walk with God. We may safely strike out the word "and," if we respect the best authorities. Philadelphia, City Of Praise ( Revelation 3:7-13 Continued). He who is not written in the book of life is cast into the lake of fire ( Revelation 20:15); only they who are written in the Lamb's book of life shall enter into blessedness ( Revelation 21:27). "Therefore," he says, "watch!" 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