Where are we going where have we been

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Where are we going where have we been?
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• Application
• Historical
• Devotional (Inspirational)
• Doctrinal (Prophetical)

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Where are we going where have we been?
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Where are we going where have we been?
Seed andSituation
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The Declared Seed(The PLAN)
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The Contested Seed(The PLOY)
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• John 11 In the beginning was the Word, and
  the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
• 1st John 57 For there are three that bear
  record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the
  Holy Ghost and these three are one.

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• Matthew 1322 He also that received seed among
  the thorns is he that heareth the word and the
  care of this world, and the deceitfulness of
  riches, choke the word, and he becometh
  unfruitful.
• Matthew 1323 But he that received seed into the
  good ground is he that heareth the word, and
  understandeth it which also beareth fruit, and
  bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty,
  some thirty.

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• 1st Peter 123 Being born again, not of
  corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the
  word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

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• 1st John 39 Whosoever is born of God doth not
  commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he
  cannot sin, because he is born of God.

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• Colossians 316 Let the word of Christ dwell
  in you richly in all wisdom teaching and
  admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and
  spiritual songs, singing with grace in your
  hearts to the Lord.

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The Manifested Seed(The PATTERN)
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The Prevailing Seed(The PROMISE)
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• Growing Out and Growing Up - Bearing and
  Baring- Right Rave and Left Love - Hype
  and Hypocrisy - History and His Story -
  Acts and Actions - Revealed and Revealing
  - Fully Purposed and Fully Positioned -
  Exposed and Exposure

• Ephesus

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-Blessings and Cursings - Blind and
Seeing- Nothing and Everything

• Smyrna

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• Commission

• Ephesus

90-200 A.D.
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• Commission

• Smyrna

200-325 A.D.
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Where are we going where have we been?
Cost andCause
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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation
• Condemnation
• Correction
• Call
• Challenge

• Smyr na

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• Commission

• Smyr na- Myr r h(Bitterness/Death)

• The name Smyrna

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• Commission

• Ephesus-Fully Purposed

Appellation
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Where are we going where have we been?
Fully Purposed andFully Positioned
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• Commission

• Smyr na- Myr r h(Bitterness/Death)

• The name Smyrna

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• Commission
• Character

• Smyr na

• The First and the Last

• was dead, and is alive

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• Romans 811 But if the Spirit of him that
  raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he
  that raised up Christ from the dead shall also
  quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that
  dwelleth in you.

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• 2nd Corinthians 58 We are confident, I say,
  and willing rather to be absent from the body,
  and to be present with the Lord.

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• Philippians 121 For to me to live is Christ,
  and to die is gain.

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• 1 Corinthians 619-20 What? know ye not that
  your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which
  is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not
  your own? For ye are bought with a price
  therefore glorify God in your body, and in your
  spirit, which are God's.

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• Galatians 220 I am crucified with Christ
  nevertheless I live yet not I, but Christ liveth
  in me and the life which I now live in the flesh
  I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
  me, and gave himself for me.

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• Commission
• Character

• Smyr na

• The First and the Last

• was dead, and is alive

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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation

• Smyr na

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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation

• Smyr na

• This was a PERSECUTED church.

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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation

• Smyr na

• The Person Declaring

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• Hebrews 414-16 - Seeing then that we have a
  great high priest, that is passed into the
  heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast
  our profession. For we have not an high priest
  which cannot be touched with the feeling of our
  infirmities but was in all points tempted like
  as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come
  boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may
  obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of
  need.

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• Philippians 127-28 Only let your conversation
  be as it becometh the gospel of Christ that
  whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I
  may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in
  one spirit, with one mind striving together for
  the faith of the gospel And in nothing terrified
  by your adversaries which is to them an evident
  token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and
  that of God.

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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation

• Smyr na

• The Point Decreed

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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation

• Smyr na

• The Prison Derailment

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• 2nd Timothy 29 Wherein I suffer trouble, as
  an evil doer, even unto bonds but the word of
  God is not bound.

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• Church history is nothing more than the movement
  of God through the course of time, nations, and
  people to accomplish His three-fold plan for the
  universe, the earth, and your life AND it is the
  movement of the devil through the course of time,
  nations, and our lives to counter, counterfeit,
  and/or confound Gods three-fold plan.

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• Romans 1219 Dearly beloved, avenge not
  yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath for
  it is written, Vengeance is mine I will repay,
  saith the Lord.

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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation

• Smyr na

• The Problem Defined

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Pagan Rome
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Places
Rome

• Tried to kill Jesus at His birth (Matthew 213)
• Killed John the Baptist. (Matthew
  141-12)
• Had Christ beaten. (Matthew 2724)
• Had the thorns placed on Jesus head. (Matthew
  2729)
• Had the nails put in His hands and feet. (Luke
  2439)

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Places
Rome

• Had Jesus crucified. (Matthew 2735)
• Their soldiers cast lots for His garments. (John
  1923-24)
• Put the spear in His side. (John 1934)
• Sealed His tomb. (Matthew 2762-66)
• Had the head of James cut off. (Acts
  121,2)
• Had Paul arrested and killed. (Acts 2133)

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• Ecclesiastes 19 The thing that hath been, it
  is that which shall be and that which is done is
  that which shall be done and there is no new
  thing under the sun.

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• Isaiah 429 Behold, the former things are come
  to pass, and new things do I declare before they
  spring forth I tell you of them.

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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation

• Smyr na

• This was a PERSECUTED church.

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• The 10 Official Roman Persecutions

• 1st- Under NERO, 67 A.D.

• 2nd- Under DOMITIAN, 81 A.D.

• 3rd- Under TRAJAN, 108 A.D.

• 4th-Under MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONIUS, 162 A.D.

• 5th- Commencing with SEVERUS, 192 A.D.

• 6th- Under MAXIMUS, 235 A.D.

• 7th- Under DECIUS, 249 A.D.

• 8th- Under VALERIAN, 257 A.D.

• 9th- Under AURELIAN, 274 A.D.

• 10th- Under DIOCLETIAN, 303 A.D.

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• Romans 1017 So then faith cometh by
  hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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• 2 Timothy 113 Hold fast the form of sound
  words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and
  love which is in Christ Jesus.

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The Apostolic Church Fathers

• Clement of Rome.
• Ignatius
• Papias
• Epicurus
• Basilides
• Polycarp
• Justin Martyr
• Origen

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-Writes 12 letters- First to use the word
catholic- Refers to himself as the son of the
church

• Ignatius

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-Writes Explanation of the Lords Discourse-
Says John did not write Revelation- Says Marks
gospel is actually Peters gospel

• Papias

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-His writings merge Christianity with
philosophy.-Uses bible for Christian-Negates
bible by blending humanism/pagan Greek
philosophy.

• Epicurus

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-Teaches that Christ was only human in experience
and appearance.- Was a Gnostic. - Simon of
Cyrene was the one who died on the cross.

• Basilides

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80 plus 6 years have I served Him and He has
done me no wrong. How could I deny Him now?

• Polycarp

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-Wrote a letter to the Philippians church saying
Faith is the mother of us all

• Polycarp

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• The fact is the Pope was a sinner like everyone
  else and he had to trust the death, burial and
  resurrection of Jesus Christ for his salvationas
  it is given through the church

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Philo influenced two late second-century Greek
fathers of the church, Clement of Alexandria and
his pupil Origen.
New Standard Encyclopedia
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These two in turn headed Alexandrias
catechetical (Christian religious) school, where
both Christian and pagan (Greek) writings were
studied and where
New Standard Encyclopedia
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the philosophy later known as Neo-Platonism
evolvedalthough Neo-Platonism was a pagan
philosophy and Origen, after his death, was
disowned by the church as a heretic
New Standard Encyclopedia
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much of the mysticism of the Alexandrian
school of theology was absorbed into Christian
thinking
New Standard Encyclopedia
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• Job 4112-14 I will not conceal his parts,
  nor his power, nor his comely proportion. Who can
  discover the face of his garment? or who can come
  to him with his double bridle? Who can open the
  doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round
  about.

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The Contested Seed(The PLOY)
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-The Father of the Allegorical Method of Bible
Study- Changes the Bible from Antioch in 30,000
places.

• Origen

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• Proverbs 305-6 Every word of God is pure he
  is a shield unto them that put their trust in
  him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he
  reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

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Origen was the greatest scholar of his age, and
the most gifted, most industrius, and most
cultivated of all ante-Nicene fathers. Even
heathens and heretics admired or feared his
brilliant talent and vast learning.
Philip Schaff
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As a true Divine, he consecrated all his studies
by prayer, and turned them, according to his best
convictions, to the service of truth and piety.
Philip Schaff (History of the Christian Church)
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Origen was the greatest scholar and most
prolific author of the early church. He was not
only a profound thinker but also deeply spiritual
and a loyal churchman
Eerdmans Handbook to the History of Christianity
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The NOT SO FUNDAMENTALS HERESYOrigen
believed
-He did not believe that Genesis 1 through 3 was
literal.- He believed in the allegorical method
of interpreting the Bible.
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The NOT SO FUNDAMENTALS HERESYOrigen
believed
-Christ was a created being.- The Holy Spirit
was a created being. -That salvation was by
WORKSnot grace. - In Baptismal Regeneration and
Transubstantiation.
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The NOT SO FUNDAMENTALS HERESYOrigen
believed
-That Christs death was paid a ransom to
SATAN.- In purgatorynot hell. -In a universal
salvation of ALL, including the devil. - He
DENIED the bodily resurrection.
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The NOT SO FUNDAMENTALS HERESYOrigen
believed
-He DENIED the Millennial Kingdom.- He believed
in the pre-existence of the human soul. -He
believed that stars were beings, and that Jesus
died for the stars.
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Divisions

• Deviations

• Distinctions

• Developings

• Deceptions

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Cost andCause
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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation

• Smyr na

• The Proving Demonstrated

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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation

• Smyr na

• This was a PERSECUTED church.

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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation

• Smyr na

• This was a WORKING church.

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• 1st Corinthians 1558- Therefore, my beloved
  brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always
  abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as
  ye know that your labour is not in vain in the
  Lord.

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• Evangelism
• Edification

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• Ephesians 64 And, ye fathers, provoke not your
  children to wrath but bring them up in the
  nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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• 1 Corinthians 1011 Now all these things
  happened unto them for ensamples and they are
  written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of
  the world are come.
• 1 Corinthians 101 Moreover, brethren, I would
  not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our
  fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
  through the sea

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• Ephesians 51 Be ye therefore followers of
  God, as dear children
• Psalms 328 I will instruct thee and teach
  thee in the way which thou shalt go I will guide
  thee with mine eye.

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• John 146 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way,
  the truth, and the life no man cometh unto the
  Father, but by me.
• John 114 And the Word was made flesh, and
  dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the
  glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
  full of grace and truth.

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But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the
gospel shone with resplendent brightness, and,
firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attcks
of its boisterous enemies with success.
Foxs Book of Martyrs (pg 12)
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Tertullian, who lived in this age, informs us
that if the Christians had collectively withdrawn
themselves from the Roman territories, the empire
would have been greatly depopulated.
Foxs Book of Martyrs (pg12)
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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation

• Smyr na

• This was a PERSECUTED church.

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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation

• Smyr na

• This was a WORKING church.

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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation

• Smyr na

• This was a RICH church.

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These are times when more biblical TRUTH is known
than any other time!
These are times when men are EVER LEARNING and
never able to come to the knowledge of the TRUTH!
2 Timothy 37 Ever learning,
and never able to come to the knowledge of the
truth.
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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation
• Condemnation
• Correction
• Call
• Challenge

• Smyr na

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• Commission
• Character
• Commendation

• Smyr na

• The Period Determined

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Where are we going where have we been?
Cost andCause