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Revelation 2:12-17 Part 1

April 23, 2025
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Last time we completed our look at the Lord’s letter to Smyrna, in Revelation chapter two. It was a letter of encouragement and commendation. Today, as we begin a study of the letter to Pergamum, we see a very different tone from the Lord. Pergamum had fallen into the hands of false teaching.  They were compromising. The Lord’s response? Repent! 

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References: Revelation 2:12-17

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Today on His Perfect Love we’ll be encouraged to trust the Lord in the trials.  We’ll be reminded that we’re not alone, we’re going to be ok, and God is up to something good in and through it all!    
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Have you ever been through a trial or period of discouragement, and then you received a note or message from a friend that really ministered to you? That’s exactly what the Lord did for the church in Smyrna in the second chapter of Revelation. Smyrna was suffering persecution for their faith, and also tribulation and poverty. This little passage of just four verses is a reminder to stay faithful, and keep on keeping on with eyes on the Lord. 
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Today on His Perfect Love we’ll meet a church that had left their first love, and we’ll see what to do if that should happen to us!  
April 15, 2025
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Today we’ll be looking at the Lord’s postcard to the church in Ephesus in Revelation chapter two. While they were commended for some things, they had walked away from their first love.  Their love had grown cold.  It happened to the Ephesians and it’s still happening to Christians today. If things aren’t where they used to be in your relationship with Jesus, today’s message will show you how to get back on track. 
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Today Matt continues his series in Revelation.  We begin a look at the first of seven letters Jesus gave to seven different first century churches.  But as you’ll soon discover it has great relevance to us today. In his letter to Ephesus, the key words are found in chapter two, verse four, “You have left your first love!"  Whether an entire church body, or an individual Christian, leaving the love relationship we have with Jesus is something to be avoided but what do you do if it happens?  Find out today!
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Today the plan is to finish up Revelation chapter one. In verse twenty the apostle John speaks of the seven stars, the angels of the seven churches.  Now are these actual angels he’s referring to?  Pastor Matt doesn’t think so.  He’ll explain why he believes these to be pastors or elders of these seven churches and the church at large.
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About His Perfect Love

His Perfect Love is a radio ministry of Calvary Chapel Harrisburg, with Pastor Matt VanderVen. This radio ministry is an extension of the calling found in Ephesians 4:12-15, "for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—"

About Matt VanderVen

Matt VanderVen is the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Harrisburg – West Shore. Matt and his wife, Lisa, moved from Rochester, NY to Harrisburg, PA in 2014 to begin a simple, line by line teaching through God’s Word on Wednesday evenings. God began to move in the hearts and minds of His people and in December of 2015 the Lord established Calvary Chapel Harrisburg located on the West Shore in Mechanicsburg, PA.

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