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Philadelphia - by Michael Phillips
| | Seven Churches - Sermon 6 of 7 |  |
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Today with God's blessing, we'll move on in our study of The Seven Churches of Asia. When I was a boy, I thought the churches of Asia were in places like Japan, China, and Korea. Of course they were not. The Asia referred to in the New Testament, is Asia Minor, the western third (or so) of what we now call Turkey. These were Greek cities, part of the Roman Empire, mostly pagan, and with a substantial number of Jews. Thus, Asia Minor was not a mission field easy to work. But not looking for easy work, Paul and others worked it, and the work they did was amply rewarded. Pagans and Jews became disciples of Christ and formed churches all over that part of the world. Some of the churches were not doing very well at the time, but a couple of them were. They didn't seem successful, and their pastors were not publishing best selling-books on Dynamic Leadership, but they were successful in the most basic and important way: they were loyal to Jesus Christ. And none more so than the church in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia in this letter is not Philadelphia, Pennsylvania! It's the other one, the one smack-dab in the middle of Asia, about 100 miles east of the Aegean Sea and 150 ... More >>>
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