STUDY IT FOR YOURSELF Have the attitude of

STUDY IT FOR YOURSELF! Have the attitude of the Bereans… … take what you are taught and search the Scriptures each day to see if what was taught is what the Word of God says [Acts 17: 11]!

UNCOVERING the uncovered A Study of the Revelation of Jesus Christ

UNCOVERING the uncovered Part Six: LIVING FAITHFULLY!

REMEMBER the FOUNDATION

Revelation 2 verses 7, 11, 17, 29; 3 verses 6, 13, 22 “‘The ONES HAVING AN EAR, LET THEM HEAR what the SPIRIT SAYS to the congregations…. ’” Let Them HEAR

UNCOVERING the uncovered The CHURCH Jesus Desires IS to be FAITHFUL!

Revelation 2: 10 ‘Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. …’

‘… BE FAITHFUL EVEN TO DEATH, and I WILL GIVE you the CROWN of LIFE. ’ Revelation 2: 10

Isaiah 49: 7 “… Because of the LORD Who is FAITHFUL, the HOLY ONE of Israel Who has chosen You. ” Faithfulness is a part of Holiness

Psalm 33: 4 For the WORD of the LORD is upright; And all His work is done in FAITHFULNESS [truth]. FAITHFULNESS is BEING TRUE to WHAT we SAY!

1 John 4: 16 And we have come to KNOW and have BELIEVED the LOVE which God has for us. GOD IS LOVE, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Since God is FAITHFUL [Is 49: 7; Ps 33: 4] and since God is LOVE [1 Jn 4: 16] And since “ LOVE NEVER FAILS” [1 Cor 13: 8 a] [FALL (and not get up again)]! To NEVER FAIL IS TO BE FAITHFUL!

‘… BE FAITHFUL …. ’ -FUL a word-forming element attached to nouns or verbs and meaning FULL of or CHARACTERIZED by FAITH!

FAITHFUL – G 4103 To BE WORTHY of BEING BELIEVED, To BE TRUSTWORTHY, that is true, sure, believable To BE FAITHFUL in DUTY to oneself and to others in… … WHAT you SAY; … and WHAT you. WHAT DO. you DO. … and

UNCOVERING the uncovered To LIVE FAITHFUL IS to Live as a LIVING SACRIFICE!

1 Chronicles 16: 29 GIVE to the LORD the GLORY DUE His name; BRING an OFFERING, and COME BEFORE Him; WORSHIP the LORD in the BEAUTY of HOLINESS.

Romans 12: 1 -2 – A More Literal Translation [1] Now I BEG you brethren, THROUGH the MERCIES of God, PRESENT your a SACRIFICE LIVING, bodies a SANCTIFIED, WELL-PLEASING to God, YOUR Y THOUGHTFUL WILLFUL SERVICE.

[2] And NO LONGER CONFORM YOURSELF to this WORLD, RATHER, ALLOW YOURSELF to be TRANSFORMED by the RENEWING of YOUR MIND…

[2] … SO THAT YOU MAY PROVE WHAT IS the WILL of God that which is GOOD and WELL-PLEASING and COMPLETE.

Acts 20: 24 [Also see Ps 44: 22; 1 Cor 4: 9; 15: 30 ff; 2 Cor 1: 9; 4: 10 ff; 6: 9; 11: 23] “But I DO NOT CONSIDER MY LIFE of any account as DEAR to MYSELF, in order that I may FINISH my COURSE, and the MINISTRY which I received from the Lord Jesus, to to testify gospel GRACE testify to to thethe gospel of of thethe GRACE of of God.

1 Thessalonians 4: 7 -8 [7] For God HAS NOT CALLED us for the purpose of impurity, but in SANCTIFICATION. [8] Consequently, he who REJECTS this is NOT REJECTING man but the God Who gives His Holy Spirit to you.

1 Peter 1: 13 -16 [13] Therefore, having GIRDED UP your MIND, being SOBER-MINDED, HOPE COMPLETELY on the GRACE being BROUGHT to you in the REVELATION of JESUS CHRIST.

[14] As OBEDIENT CHILDREN, NOT CONFORMING to YOUR PASSIONS of YOUR FORMER IGNORANCE, [15] but JUST LIKE the HOLY ONE Who HAS CALLED YOU… 1 Peter 1: 13 -16

[15] … YOU ALSO BECOME HOLY IN ALL your BEHAVIOR; [16] because it is written, “YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY. ” 1 Peter 1: 13 -16

Deuteronomy 7: 8 -9 [8] “BUT BECAUSE the LORD LOVED you AND kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the LORD BROUGHT YOU OUT by a MIGHTY HAND, AND REDEEMED you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ”

[9] “KNOW THEREFORE THAT the LORD your God, HE IS GOD, the FAITHFUL GOD, Who KEEPS His COVENANT and His LOVINGKINDNESS… with those who LOVE Him and KEEP His COMMANDMENTS; “ Deuteronomy 7: 8 -9

1 Corinthians 10: 13 No temptation has overtaken YOU but such as is common to man; and GOD IS FAITHFUL, Who WILL NOT ALLOW you to BE TEMPTED BEYOND what you are able…

… but with the TEMPTATION WILL PROVIDE the WAY OF ESCAPE also, THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE to ENDURE it. 1 Corinthians 10: 13

UNCOVERING the uncovered The CHURCH Jesus Desires IS to be FAITHFUL Even to Death!

Revelation 2: 10 ‘DO NOT FEAR what you are about to SUFFER. Behold, the DEVIL is about to cast some of you into PRISON, that you may be TESTED, and you will have TRIBULATION ten days. A PROMISE to the FAITHFUL!

Revelation 2: 10 ‘BE FAITHFUL EVEN TO DEATH, and I WILL GIVE you the CROWN of LIFE. A PROMISE to the FAITHFUL!

Revelation 2: 13 ‘I KNOW WHERE you DWELL, where SATAN’S THRONE IS; and you HOLD FAST My name, and DID NOT DENY My faith… An Example of FAITHFULNESS!

Revelation 2: 13 ‘… even in the days of ANTIPAS, My WITNESS, My FAITHFUL ONE, who WAS KILLED among you, where Satan dwells. ’ An Example of FAITHFULNESS!

ANTIPAS (G 493), in Revelation 2: 13, comes from antí (G 473), ‘against’, and pás (G 3596), ‘all’. Together the meaning is ‘AGAINST ALL’! Church tradition says he was the ‘bishop’ of Pergamum and was martyred under Domitian. An Example of FAITHFULNESS!

Revelation 7: 9 -15 [9] After these things I looked, and behold, a great CROWD, which no one was able to number, from every nation and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before throne and before the Lamb, having been clothed with white robes, and palm branches in their hands;

[10] and they cry out with a great loud voice, saying, “The SALVATION of our GOD sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb. ” Revelation 7: 9 -15

[11] And all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living beings; and they fell on their faces before throne and WORSHIPED God, Revelation 7: 9 -15

[12] saying, “Amen, the praise and the glory and the wisdom and the thanksgiving and the honor and the power and the ability, to our GOD forever and ever. Amen. ” Revelation 7: 9 -15

[13] And one of the elders answered, saying to me, “These ONES having BEEN CLOTHED in the white robes, WHO ARE THEY, and from where did they come? ” Revelation 7: 9 -15

[14] And I said to him, “My lord, you know. ” And he said to me, “These are the ones COMING OUT OF the GREAT TRIBULATION, and they HAVE WASHED their ROBES and WHITENED them IN the BLOOD of the LAMB. ” Revelation 7: 9 -15

[15] “Through THIS, they are BEFORE the THRONE of the GOD; and SERVE HIM day and night in HIS TEMPLE; and HE sitting on the throne WILL TABERNACLE over them. ” Revelation 7: 9 -15

Make the BLESSING PERSONAL

Revelation 12: 11 [11] “And they OVERCAME him because of the BLOOD of the LAMB and because of the WORD of their TESTIMONY, and they DID NOT LOVE their LIFE EVEN to DEATH.

Here is YOUR INVITATION to BE FAITHFUL even to and TABERNACLE DEATH, with God FOREVER!