Seven Ways the Church Gets Ready for the End – Part 2 | Herbert Cooper - Audio

Seven Ways the Church Gets Ready for the End – Part 2 <br><br> 1. Return to your first love - (Ephesus) 2. Remain Faithful – (Smyrna) 3.  Resist Compromise - (Pergamum)  <br><br> Revelation 2:14-15 - Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: You have people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin by eating food sacrificed to idols and by committing sexual immorality. 15 Likewise you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. (NIV)   Romans 12:9 - 9  Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.  (NIV) John 4:4 - If all you want is your own way, flirting with the world every chance you get, you end up enemies of God and his way. (MSG) <br><br> 4. Repent of Sin - (Thyatira)  <br><br> Revelation 2:18-19 - 18  “To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.  19  I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first. (NIV) Revelation 2:20-22 - Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. 21 I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. 22 So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. (NIV) <br><br> Romans 2:4 - His kindness is meant to lead you to repentance. (TLB) <br><br> 5. Refuse Hypocrisy - (Sardis)  <br><br> Revelation 3:1- To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. 2 Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. (NIV)   <br><br> Matthew 15:8 - These