"Commentary on Revelation 2:4". But all the other promises deal not with something in the remoter future, but with something that begins to take effect the moment the dust, and confusion, and garments rolled in blood, of the battle-field, are swept away. "I will give him the morning star." A FORESHADOWING OF DESTINY. It is a seed that has been taken in and cultivated. Subscribe and Get Sermons and Live Streams by John & Matt Hagee DIRECTLY TO YOUR INBOX! Public Domain. What is First love? The announcement that Christ is coming affords great encouragement to sustain your endurance; for He is coming to receive His people to Himself, that where He is, there they may be also. Murray.Why they did not insist upon having this Jezebel turned out of the Church appears exceedingly strange. Some wander in it longer and plunge into it more deeply. What Christ is to His people, He is alone. II. (2) What it is symbolically. Let us learn the lesson that either to-day is better than yesterday or it is worse. The other lesson to be learnt from this history regards the discipline and ordinances of the Church. I remark, THAT CHRIST IS THE MORNING STAR OF TIME, AND WILL BE THE MORNING STAR OF ETERNITY, BECAUSE HIS LIGHT USHERS IN PERPETUAL DAY. I. The day dawned in joy, and the thoughts of the night were songs in his heart. THE REPREHENSIBLE IN DOCTRINE. )Time for repentanceJ. This is His promised gift, and a very glorious one it is. is He the Angel of God? To love was his all, and he loved everything. In the words of Milton, it "flames in the forehead of the morning sky." The Expositor's Greek Testament. (2) Agencies are in constant operation here that threaten its destruction.III. He says to us, "All Mine is thine."II. -------------------- Murray. That they who want an ear, they who want the dispositions necessary to their receiving this gracious offer of salvation, or are prevented by any of the hindrances which render it ineffectual, are always very severely reproved in Scripture, plainly DENOTING IT TO BE ENTIRELY THEIR OWN FAULT THAT THEY HAVE NOT EARS TO HEAR. There is still another thing to be remembered, and that is, that if we are to have this progressive godliness we must put forth continuous effort right away to the very close. As the guards and the cultivators of that which we have, there must be vigilance and resistance and persevering prayer; there must be a war continually waged against evil thoughts, evil propensities, and evil actions; and there must be an unceasing and determined effort to bring the whole soul under the supreme dominion of gospel principles and of gospel influences.2. (1) Men who have had it have lost it before now. Every metaphor about the life of the Christian soul carries the same lesson. As a Priest, He offers the alone and perfect sacrifice. Burgess, B. D.)Jezebel to be cast out of the ChurchJ. And then the text still further suggests another thought. The love here referred to is evidently love to the Saviour; and the idea is, that, as a church, they had less of this than formerly characterized them. She was, therefore, peculiarly fitted to represent the influences of the world; and the charge against the first Church of the second group is that she tolerated the world with its heathen thoughts and practices. VIII. Of the like sense are the following (Daniel 12:10; 2 Timothy 3:13; Revelation 17:17).4. And who shall tell the disheartening effect upon ourselves of these inconsistencies? They are believed because they are inscrutable, and on that account require a large measure of faith. Alexander.I. He bruises the head of Satan under our feet. HOLD FAST THAT WHICH YOU HAVE, BECAUSE THE GOSPEL FURNISHES YOU WITH THE MEANS OF RETAINING IT.1. OUR LORD'S EARNEST EXHORTATION TO THE CHURCHES (ver. "Thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make thee ruler over many things"; and, linked along with the promise of authority, the assurance of union with the Master: "Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." The psalm in question deals with that Messianic hope under the symbols of an earthly conquering monarch, and sets forth His dominion as established throughout the whole earth. "Till I come." He is not interested in your works that are done from a sense of responsibility or duty. There are few Churches so exactly apostolic as to pursue a strict impartiality. I. And who shall tell the disheartening effect upon ourselves of these inconsistencies? xvi. Maclaren, D. D.)Notwithstanding, I have a few thingsAn imperfect ChurchJ. Cookie Notice: The dawn may be overcast, but the day still proceeds. It is to something future that He points the eye of His Churches — the things "not seen," the "things hoped for."2. Fifthly, suppose a sweet sense of the love of God in the soul. You have some right views, right feelings, right principles; hold them fast. Bengel: "I have against thee. Wisdom Literature The laws of Christ, they are to be held fast, not one forgotten or neglected; the promises of Christ, they are to be held fast, not one forgotten or neglected; the helps of Christ, they are all of them to be held fast, and used in the varied and continued necessities of this mortal life of temptation. How much that is! Nothing but truth will bear an open investigation; truth is the only system that may be committed with safety to a whole community; not that it will be so safe as never to be perverted, but it will finally triumph, and requires neither secret machinery nor open violence to force it on men's minds. DIVINELY ALLOTTED.1. Christian souls, in the future, as in the present, will stand forth as the visible embodiments of the glory and lustre of the unseen God. Christ Jesus — He is the Star. But there are no mysteries in the Word of God, but what have a key to open them, and an index to point them out.2. She came under the semblance of religion; she pretended to be inspired of God; and she appears to have gained such credit with the bishop himself that he was beguiled by her enticing words, and suffered her to teach; this was his sin. OUR LORD'S INSPIRING WORDS TO THE FAITHFUL (ver. Does he bargain that he will only grind in the west wind, because its gales are so full of health? )But that which ye have already, hold fast till I comeA little religion is worth retainingJ.

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