In this passage, God’s judgements are suddenly paused by three interventions so that we would understand God’s salvation is greater than our sins.

This panorama of coming judgment was presented so that Christian believers could be assured that the only place of deliverance from God’s judgment is in the slain Lamb, the very one Who will open the sealed document.

In this passage, we see that Jesus is the only one worthy and able to execute God’s plan and purposes in our lives and for the world, so that like all heaven and earth we might join in the eternal praise of the Lamb!

The churches were given a revelation of God’s eternal sovereign authority over all His creation so that they would submit to His authority, trust Him in their trials, and worship Him in all their life circumstances. God’s rule from heaven will result in all things ultimately being put right upon the earth after His judgments are completed.

In this passage, we examine three lives to understand the types of examples that advance or hinder gospel partnership, so we can discern between friend and foe in the ministry.

In this passage, we will examine three exemplary signs of a hospitable man which will help us understand what it means to be fellow workers with the truth.

Christ desires that His local churches would love Him, cling to Him even in difficult circumstances, resist false teachers, and give faithful testimony to Him. In short, The Anchor Bible Church of Redlands is to be a lampstand that faithfully shines the light of Christ in a dark world as we respond with repentance to His challenges to our sinful tendencies

Christ confronted the spiritual self-sufficiency and self-deception of the Laodicean church so that Anchor Bible Church will purchase from Him what we are lacking as we respond to His loving appeal for corporate zeal and repentance and individual fellowship with Him.

Christ commended the church in Philadelphia for fidelity despite weakness, and He pledged to vindicate them against their enemies and keep them out of the unprecedented testing that will fall upon the whole world so that The Anchor Bible Church would also hold fast its confession in Christ assured that He will deliver us from the Great Tribulation and give us future stability and a new identity.

Christ’s message to the Church at Sardis, unlike His previous messages, has no commendation, but instead He warns them as a spiritually dying church to wake up, repent and to strengthen what little life remains there, for their eternal security is dependent on their lively relationship to Him.