{"id":348,"date":"2017-07-23T11:45:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T15:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/?p=348"},"modified":"2017-07-23T12:48:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T16:48:24","slug":"the-seven-churches-in-revelation-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2017\/07\/23\/the-seven-churches-in-revelation-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seven Churches in Revelation &#8211; Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that God is an all-powerful, all-seeing and all-knowing God who cares about all the things that go on in our lives. The purpose of Jesus&#8217; letters to the seven churches in Asia is to bring loving correction to them in order to help them to become more like Him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Church at Pergamos<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The compromising church\n<ul>\n<li>Compromise: To accept standards that are lower than desirable<\/li>\n<li>This church was incorporating pagan religious traditions from the city around them, hence lowering their standards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>God knows where we live\n<ul>\n<li>Are our homes dens of Satan or a houses of God?<\/li>\n<li>What comes out of our mouths? Are we speaking blessings or curses?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>We need to repent of our compromises!\n<ul>\n<li>We need to admit that we&#8217;ve missed the mark, and ask His forgiveness.<\/li>\n<li>The Holy Spirit will help bring our lives into alignment with Him.<\/li>\n<li>We have to desire to be like Him<\/li>\n<li>We have to stop making excuses as to why we can&#8217;t be like Him<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Scriptures<\/strong>: Revelation 2:12-17, Hebrews 10:26-31<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-348-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/07-23-17.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/07-23-17.mp3\">http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/07-23-17.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that God is an all-powerful, all-seeing and all-knowing God who cares about all the things that go on in our lives. The purpose of Jesus&#8217; letters to the seven churches in Asia is to bring loving correction to them&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2017\/07\/23\/the-seven-churches-in-revelation-part-iii\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}