Fear of this world or the ruler of darkness doesn’t belong in the heart of a believer. To let it in is to let a loser maintain power even after his authority in your life has been removed. As Pastor Johnny will remind us in today’s message, Jesus has already secured our victory and we need to stand fast in Him and His truth.

Praise God for the life-giving power of those words! His love is more powerful than the vilest of sin. As Pastor Johnny continues our study of Jesus’ letters to the seven Churches, we’ll be reminded of how great God’s love is for us. Nothing in this world can separate you from that love once you’ve accepted it into your heart.

While you may mean well, when you encounter someone in the depth of a trial, you don’t need to have the answers for them. You don’t need to figure out why they’re there. As Pastor Johnny will point out in today’s message, at that moment, just being there with them is a better help than trying to fix their problem.

Why is it so easy to find excuses not to go to church? Maybe it’s too rainy, or maybe it’s a beautiful day and your fishing rod is calling… As Pastor Johnny will point out in today’s message, it’s sobering to think that there are people who are willing to die for the Kingdom of God, while we struggle to give up our Sunday morning. 

As Pastor Johnny will point out in today’s message, this is all too common in today’s Church. You can readily find congregations and entire denominations that won’t even reference Scripture, or worse, the name of Jesus, for fear of offending or coming off as radical. Jesus should be our entire reason for existing as the Church.

Have you ever tried walking up a hill covered with wet grass? It’s an exercise. One carelessly placed step can easily send you sliding down the hill. As Pastor Johnny will warn in today’s message, as believers, we can easily find ourselves sliding back into sin - we need the hand of the Holy Spirit to pull us along.

In today’s message, Pastor Johnny will examine Jesus’ letter to the church of Ephesus. Usually, it’s polite not to read other people’s mail, but in this case, the Church of Ephesus - while a real group of believers, also represents a type of believer or church, and bears the truth that all of us can benefit from.

God is not done with Israel. His relationship with them demonstrates his long-suffering and unfathomable grace. They were chosen to be a blessing to all nations and point them toward Him. But, as Pastor Johnny will point out in today’s message, sadly, the majority of them have rejected God’s Son. 

You’ve been given a great gift in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. You’ve heard it. Have you taken it into your heart? As Pastor Johnny will challenge us in today’s message, once you take this life-giving message into your heart, you need to let it come to the surface of your life as a witness to the lost people around you.

No human being can know the day or hour that Jesus will return. God’s perspective on time is much different than ours, but as Pastor Johnny will warn in today’s message when we look at the world around us, events and circumstances seem to be closely aligned with the prophecies we find in the book of Revelation.