If you hold the kid to your house, you have the authority to let people in.

The same is true in God's kingdom, according to Nancy Damoss Walguluth.

And God is given to Jesus, the Holy One, the true One, all authority in heaven and on earth.

He holds the keys.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy Damoss Walguluth, author of Heaven Rules.

For September 21st, 2023, I'm Dana Grasch.

If someone hands you their keys, they're giving you authority and responsibility.

That's an important concept in God's kingdom, and Nancy will explain it today.

This fall, she's working her way through the letters to the churches in Revelation.

Today, she begins a series on the church in Philadelphia called Encouragement to Persevere.

Can you use some of that? I know I sure can. Here's Nancy.

Well, we come today to the six of the seven letters to the churches in the Book of Revelation.

And I've been looking forward to this one. It's the letter to the church in Philadelphia.

And being a Philadelphia girl myself, I'm interested in this one in particular.

If you think of the city of Philadelphia here in the United States, you may be think of William Penn.

You think of the Liberty Bell. You think of Independence Hall.

Maybe if you're a sports fan, you think of the Phillies or the Eagles or the 76ers.

I think of Philly Chistakes. I was thinking we should have had those for lunch today.

That would have been a great way to think about the city of Philadelphia.

Somebody said to me, when I came in today, one of our staff said,

yeah, I remember the first time I was in Philadelphia.

The first night I spent there, there were two murders within six blocks of where we were staying in the city of brotherly love.

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