The Church at Pergamum | Pastor Grant Ethridge | Liberty Live Church

Well, we're in a series on the seven letters to the churches.

So turn with me, please, to the last book in the Bible, the book of Revelation.

We're at chapter 2.

And Pastor Daniel kicked it off talking about Ephesus and the letter to the church at Ephesus.

And I think the amazing thing about that church was all the people they had there, spiritual leaders, whether it was Paul for two years or John for almost 30 years, and the mother of Jesus, Mary, who was there, and John was caring for her, and all the different ones that were there.

And yet within 35 years, now let that sink in, Within 35 years, the Lord Jesus is calling them to repent.

The Lord Jesus is calling them to repent and remember that first love, their first works, and to return.

And so it can happen to any church.

We're always just one generation away from a church dying and declining.

Are you awake? And so it speaks to us today.

You know, when you look at these letters to the churches...

They're individual churches.

They're local churches.

And John, after he left Ephesus, he ended up being put on the Isle of Patmos.

And there he was persecuted.

And so he is writing a letter to each campus pastor, each one of these.

There's seven of them.

And I've got a map.

And even though you may not be able to really see the names on it, I'm going to help you out.

The bottom line is this.

Over to the right, you see Jerusalem.

And this is Israel.

And I've been there many times.

And God willing, we're going again on October the 5th.

And then over here at Corinth in Greece, you see the missionary journeys of Paul.