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THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA /REVELATION 2 - 3

Copyright November 20, 2007

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Chapter 18 (2 of 2)

T H E   M E R C Y   O F   G O D

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"If any man sin we have an advocate", is a consolation to those who are God’s faithful and true, who struggle to obey Him, whether or not they have the baptism with His power (the greater anointing of His Holy Spirit with whom the gifts are associated with) or not. 1 John 2:1 also serves to inform us "IF" means that obedience is the norm for God's children while disobedience, sin, is not.

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It is those who are not the faithful and true/Saints, the true which we are required to be, who call themselves a Christian then live worldly and carnal lifestyles the Religious sinner, Hypocrite, Lukewarm, and Backslider (apostate) who will fall under the justice of God's wrath and negative judgment.  This book is written as an exhortation to Obey God, His Commandments, and a warning of what could happen if we do not make this effort.  There is a balance for faith, grace, and works, obedience, for each one of us and only the Holy Spirit can help us to find it.  The Word of God is very adamant about the necessity for us to do good works, obedience, to inherit eternal life after receiving Jesus as Lord and Savior of our life; those works the Holy Spirit tells us to do and God’s Moral Ethical Laws, Commandments, of which there are more than Ten.

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Without obedience to the leadership and instruction of the Holy Spirit, and God’s moral ethical laws, we could be rejected at Jesus’ Judgment Seat and denied eternal life at Almighty God’s Great White Throne Judgment. Those who are led by the Spirit of God are His children not those who do what they think is right then expecting God to honor it.  Jesus did not live a fully obedient life, suffer, die, and rise again to redeem us from the bondage of sin and death, for us live rebellious anyway we want to lives. We are saved by grace through faith, and told to go onto perfection, which is obeying the Holy Spirit and making the Effort to perfectly obey God’s Moral Ethical Laws moment by moment with our physical body (flesh).

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Jesus sacrificed all so that we could by faith in His redemptive work obey God, go on to perfection with our physical body, and then at the end of our days, having been faithful and true, receive the salvation of our soul (1 Peter 1:9). The favor, mercy of God, is extended to those Believers who are like the Saints in the church of Philadelphia, and His judgment, wrath, is toward those Believers who are like the Believers in the church of Laodicea, lukewarm.  There is an open door that no man can shut for the Saints who are like Philadelphia, but the Laodicea Believers have a closed door, the door of their heart, which only they can open and will not because they are lukewarm, who do not pursue the intimate relationship, and fellowship with God that He wants to have with us, they being caught up in the affairs of this life rather than in Him.

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In 1982 a brother in the Lord name Walter and I were praying for the church service on a particular Sunday night, for God to do a number of things. All of which came to pass. I was in my second day of fasting and he in his first.  As the church service progressed, the Lord made real to me that there was a greater anointing above the congregation. God’s anointing was great in the service, but the “greater anointing” was awesome.

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I began to pray that God would pour the greater anointing of His presence out on us, but He said, He could not because of the disobedience of the people.  Two years later God told me what His greater anointing was; it was Holy Ghost Revival. Our disobedience hinders Revival, and the function of the Holy Spirit not only in the church, but also in and through our life.

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One final observation concerning these seven churches of Asia is how God began speaking to the churches with Ephesus, where He spoke of their lack of intimacy with Him, having lost their "first love."  In His conversation with the last church, Laodicea, He finishes by bringing full circle this same theme, when knocking at the door of their heart, wanting intimacy with them, a time of fellowship, "I will sup with him and he with me."  God wants to have a deep intimate relationship with us that is found in fellowship with Him on His level; as He did with Adam and Eve before they disobeyed Him so He wants to with us. It is the fellowship and relationship with Him that God will cause His anointing and presence to flow through our lives as He did through Jesus, which can bring in a great revival wherever we are.

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My Facebook Timeline - www.facebook.com/samuelsiders1 - contains responses I have posted in answer to those who God has had me to share with for over seventeen years on Facebook Forums created to share the Scriptures. My activity about sharing the Word of God with Muslims, other false Cults, and with those who profess to be Christian continues; this open door that the Lord has made available to me as an Apologist/Teacher is one where worldwide opportunities are made available to all English speaking people around the world from many different countries, races, and religious beliefs. 

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It is WRITTEN in 1 Peter 3:15 … “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" God wants us to know AND understand His Word (2 Timothy 2:15), “Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” Jude 3, “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend [Gr. agonize with fervent zeal] for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.”
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I have three published books that can be found online, type in the search bar of the website: “Samuel Siders Books” and you will be directed to where they can be found.

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This past week a Muslim name Xell asked if Jesus created angels. What follows is the Response I posted to answer Xell’s question:

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Xell X ... “If you could understand the BIBLE which Muslims - constantly - prove they cannot, You would Know Almighty God created all things THROUGH Jesus, and without Jesus - nothing - was created (John 1:1-4); therefore, to Claim Jesus did not create angels is a Total Fallacy because it took BOTH Almighty God AND Jesus for angels to be created - not - solely His FATHER Almighty God.

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FYI the BIBLE Also teaches that Jesus' - spirit and soul - is Deity THROUGH Heredity LIKE His FATHER Almighty God is Deity who -- Gave Birth -- to Jesus' spirit and soul - FROM His personal Substance that is Deity. Deity (Almighty God) Gave Birth to Deity (Jesus' spirit and soul) and it is for this Reason that Almighty God calls His Only Birthed Son Jesus "God" as written in Psalm 45:6-7 and quoted for Jesus in Hebrews 1:8-9, i.e. "God - Your - God has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows."

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To read more responses I posted this past week my FB timeline can be visited. https://www.facebook.com/samuelsiders1   
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