Welcome to the Vood Church podcast.

Today Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr.

continues our collection of talks,

seven, revelations of Jesus for his church.

In this message, under pressure,

we learn of the church in Smirna

and how their faithfulness produced pressure.

We often think our pressure is a result of our failure

but could it be that pressure is present

to prove and improve our faith?

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voodchurch.com slash seven.

Now let's lean into the message together.

Today we are continuing a collection of talks

that we launched last Sunday entitled Seven.

And we are looking at the seven churches of revelation.

Someone say bring it on.

We are just studying the first three chapters of revelation

where there are seven specific messages given

to seven different churches.

Last week we looked at the church of Ephesus

and we taught a message entitled Lost Love.

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