Wk 2: Smyrna – Suffer Well

The Church of Eleven22

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 March 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Faithfulness in suffering is not based on your feelings as a result of your circumstances. Faithfulness is trusting in the finished work of our Savior.I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” – John 16:33

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0:00.0	Just another light day here at 1122, huh?
0:09.8	I promise.
0:10.5	One week, you're going to show up, and I'm going to preach a happy sermon.
0:12.8	We're going to laugh, and it ain't this week, though, okay?
0:15.5	You've got your Bible's book of Revelation, Chapter 2.
0:17.9	It's all the way in the end of the Bible.
0:19.3	We're going to talk about the church at Smyrna. We're in a seven-week series that Pastor Britt kicked us off in last week. Didn't he do a great
0:25.3	job? And he's going to listen to this and hear that little pitiful applause. He's going to hurt his
0:30.8	feelings, all right? That's all right. You may have noticed, though, as you turn in there to the
0:36.7	Book of Revelation chapter 2,
0:38.2	that me and campus pastors and some of our worship pastors are wearing some swag last week, this week,
0:43.8	and for the rest of the weeks of some other churches stuff.
0:46.7	And the reason that we're doing that as we study the seven letters to the seven churches in Asia Minor
0:52.0	is because we just wanted to remind the church of
0:54.3	1122 that that the epicenter of all that God's doing is not right here in Jacksonville.
0:59.8	But you know how many churches there are around the world? One. There's only one church. It's Jesus's
1:05.2	church. Now there are false churches for sure. But if you are standing on the public declaration
1:10.6	that Jesus is the Christ, the son of the Living God, then it's all his church.
1:13.8	And then this is just one local expression of his church.
1:17.2	And so this week I have on like my second favorite church's stuff.
1:21.1	My first favorite is right here.
1:22.3	I love you the most.
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