This morning we look at the letter to the church at Smyrna, a church for which Jesus had no rebuke. They were a church persecuted and made poor by the work of slanderers inspired by the chief slanderer, Satan.

The church at Ephesus had lost their first love, their love for God and people. How could they possibly get it back before it was too late?

Jesus tells John not to fear. And Jesus identifies Himself as the one who is greater than death and who holds the church

There are things we must know when the world and life seems to be spinning out of control.

how of Revelation.

How do we keep in tune with grace? How do our hearts get out of tune? How do we get them back in tune? When an instrument gets out of tune, the strings must be stretched back into tune. And so must we be stretched, sometimes painfully so, to get us back in tune with grace.

God is able to keep giving grace in abundance so that generous people will not only have their own needs met but will have enough grace for every good work God calls them to!

When Christ appears, grace will appear with him. Believers will revel in immeasurable grace age after age.

God gives us grace so that we can minister grace "in its various forms" to others!

For the apostle Paul, where the true power was found in his life, where God filled his life with amazing grace, was in his weakness. God had humbled him and made him to see his need for grace.