A Call to Action

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° Take your call seriously and without hesitation
See →Luke 19:20-26

° Can the Lord trust you?
° Can He entrust greater responsibility wity you?
° We are racing to a time where Jesus will rule and reign on the earth
° Do not take the Lord's name in vain and forsake your calling!
° Do not forsake what inheritance is being laid up for you in this eternal Kingdom
° Great loss will occur if you fail to be repentant, cling to Jesus, and press onward in His call...all He wants is repentant obidience.

° Our warnings to heed!

1. Danger of drifting
2. Danger of hardening the heart
3. Danger of failing to mature
4. Danger of willful sin
5. Ultimately culminates with apostasy

2:1 - 2:4
3:7 - 4:13
5:11 - 6:20
10:26 - 10:39
→12:25 - 12:29

Each warning builds upon the previous and Ultimately culminates with apostasy.

1. Danger of drifting
2. Danger of hardening the heart
3. Danger of failing to mature
4. Danger of willful sin
5. Ultimately culminates with apostasy

° Do not forsake what inheritance is being laid up for you.

Revelation 3:11—Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

° Some rewards listed in the Bible...

Rewards

Five Crowns

Crown of Life

James 1:12
- Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Revelation 2:10
- For none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give the a crown of life.

Crown of Righteousness

II Timothy 4:8
- Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

Crown of Glory

I Peter 5:4
- And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

Crown Imperishable

I Corinthians 9:25
- And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

Crown of Rejoicing

I Thessalonians 2:19
- For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

For the Overcomer

° Rewards for the overcomer (8 is the number of new beginnings)...

To eat of the tree of life

Revelation 2:7
- He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

Not hurt of the 2^nd death

Revelation 2:11
- He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

Hidden mana, white stone, new name

Revelation 2:17
- He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receeiveth it.

Power over the nations

Revelation 2:26
- And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

White raiment

Revelation 3:5
- He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Pillar, new name

Revelation 3:12
- Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

Sit with Christ on His throne

Revelation 3:21
- To him that overcometh will I grant to sit withme in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

Inherit all things

Revelation 21:7
- He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

How Are You An Overcomer?

° Take the deposit from The Lord, grow in faith, prioritize Him in all things, enter into the field of service, and trust that His reward is just and righteous!
° You have to be an overcomer for Him! How are you an overcomer?

Remain loyal to God (Do not lose your first love)

Revelation 2:1
- UNTO the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
Revelation 2:2
- I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found the liars:
Revelation 2:3
- And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

Overcome trials and tribulations while remaining faithful

Revelation 2:8
- And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
Revelation 2:9
- I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagougue of Satan.
Revelation 2:10
- Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried: and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Revelation 2:11
- He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

Be spiritually zealous for the Lord

Revelation 2:19
- I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to bemore than the first.

Do not deny Jesus

Revelation 3:8
- I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
Revelation 3:10
- Because thou has kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Do not defile your garments

Revelation 3:4
- Thou hast a few names even in Sardis whichhave not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

Keep the word of his patience

Revelation 3:10
- Because thou has kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

° Use the Word of God to prioritize everything in your life
° Let Jesus refine and burn away anthing that does no belong in your life
° No tradition, no religious acts, no legalistic motive, nothing can take the place of wholehearted devotion to your Messiah
° Stay in the Book of Remembrance — see →Malachi 3:16-18

For Our Faithful Service

° We will get to rule over cities for faithful service!
° In the parable from Jesus in Luke 19:15-26...verse 17...because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.

See →Luke 19:15-26

° There is even a hint of this in Zechariah:

Zechariah 1:16 — Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of host, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
Zechariah 1:17 — Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

How fascinating that God references His cities, plural
He is not just speaking of Jerusalem
During the millennium, His cities will be spread all over the earth, and we will have responsibilities

° When you view the world through the lens of the Bible, you see the time approaching (The enemy has tried to push globalism since Nimrod, but now it is a system first, then someone to take over...)
° Enoch even prophesied about us coming back with Jesus!

Jude 1:14 — And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Jude 1:15 — To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

° Can He entrust you with greater responsibility before He removes us from time itself?

Revelation 3:10 — Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Revelation 3:11 — Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Be a Witness

° Act like a King, bring honor to His name!

° Are you doing the things Christ can reward you for at the bema sear?

° Commitment, faithfulness, a true witness, dedication, giving of your time, talents, and treasure. What is your call in this life? Do not bury your talent, use it and let God multiply it!

° God will have a wedding ceremony for the Bride of Christ. Don't be one of those who rejects the invitation. Those who rejected the wedding invitation were aggressive and angry. (Matthew 22:1-14)

° The world is grasping for answers right now, build your faith to have those answers!
° They see the visceral hatred of Israel, the attack on God, the courrupting of His Word, the attack on marriage, youth being lied to that they are not who Gode made them to be, cries for abortion, saber rattling all over the Middle East, global economic uncertainty, and on and on it goes...
° We have a captive audience right; As Christians we should have the answers and be about The Lord's business! It will only encourage and strengthen those around us!
° Gold told us what these days would be like all throughout the Bible (II Timothy 3:1-9)

See →II Timothy 3:1-9

° We must be about His work and do as much as possible before we go home
° We know we will go home, then things get way worse, then Jesus restores
° The spirit of antichrist is at work
I John 4:3 — And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.)

° He holds His Word above His very name...

Psalm 138:2 — I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for they lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou has magnified thy word above all thy name.

° His Word is above any struggle in your life!