A Call to Action

New City Church Message _MF-NCC

° 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

1. 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.
       
2. 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.
       
3. 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.
       
4. 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.
       
5. 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

1. 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.
       
2. 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.
       
3. 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.
       
4. 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:
       
5. 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.
       
6. 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.
       
7. 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.
       
8. 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?

1. 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.
       
2. 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.
       
3. 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.
       
4. 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.
       
5. 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.
       
6. 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.
       

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