Where are we going… where have we been?

1. Where are we going… where have we been?

2. Application: • Historical • Devotional (Inspirational) • Doctrinal (Prophetical)

3. Where are we going… where have we been?

4. Where are we going…where have we been? “Seed andSituation”

5. The Declared Seed(The PLAN)

6. The Contested Seed(The PLOY)

8. John 1:1 – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” • 1st John 5:7 – “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”

9. Matthew 13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. • Matthew 13:23But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

10. 1st Peter 1:23 “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”

11. 1st John 3:9 – “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”

12. Colossians 3:16 – “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”

13. The Manifested Seed(The PATTERN)

14. The Prevailing Seed(The PROMISE)

15. “Growing Outand Growing Up”- “Bearingand Baring”-“Right Raveand Left Love” - “Hype and Hypocrisy”-“Historyand His Story” -“Acts and Actions”- “Revealedand Revealing” -“Fully Purposed andFully Positioned”- “Exposed and Exposure” • Ephesus Where are we going … where have we been?

16. -“Blessingsand Cursings”- “Blindand Seeing”-“Nothing and Everything” • Smyrna Where are we going … where have we been?

17. Ephesus • Commission 90-200 A.D.

18. Smyrna • Commission 200-325 A.D.

19. Where are we going…where have we been? “Cost andCause”

20. Smyrna • Commission • Character • Commendation • Condemnation • Correction • Call • Challenge

21. Smyrna-“Myrrh”(Bitterness/Death) • Commission • The name “Smyrna”

22. Ephesus-“Fully Purposed” • Commission “Appellation”

23. Where are we going…where have we been? “Fully Purposed andFully Positioned”

24. Smyrna-“Myrrh”(Bitterness/Death) • Commission • The name “Smyrna”

25. Smyrna • Commission • Character • “The First and the Last” • “was dead, and is alive”

26. Romans 8:11 – “But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.”

27. 2nd Corinthians 5:8 “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”

28. Philippians 1:21 – “For to me to liveisChrist, and to dieisgain.”

29. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”

30. Galatians 2:20 – “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

31. Smyrna • Commission • Character • “The First and the Last” • “was dead, and is alive”

32. Smyrna • Commission • Character • Commendation

33. Smyrna • Commission • Character • Commendation • This was a PERSECUTED church.

34. Smyrna • Commission • Character • Commendation • The Person Declaring

35. Hebrews 4:14-16 - “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.”

36. Philippians 1:27-28 – “Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.”

37. Smyrna • Commission • Character • Commendation • The Point Decreed

38. Smyrna • Commission • Character • Commendation • The Prison Derailment

39. 2nd Timothy 2:9 – “Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.”

40. Church history is nothing more than the movement of Godthrough the course of time, nations, and people to accomplish His three-fold plan for the universe, the earth, and your life…ANDit is the movement of the devil through the course oftime, nations, and our lives to counter, counterfeit, and/or confound God’s three-fold plan.

41. Romans 12:19 – “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.”

42. Smyrna • Commission • Character • Commendation • The Problem Defined

44. Pagan Rome

45. Places Rome • Tried to kill Jesus at His birth (Matthew 2:13) • Killed John the Baptist. (Matthew 14:1-12) • Had Christ beaten. (Matthew 27:24) • Had the thorns placed on Jesus’ head. (Matthew 27:29) • Had the nails put in His hands and feet. (Luke 24:39)

46. Places Rome • Had Jesus crucified. (Matthew 27:35) • Their soldiers cast lots for His garments. (John 19:23-24) • Put the spear in His side. (John 19:34) • Sealed His tomb. (Matthew 27:62-66) • Had the head of James cut off. (Acts 12:1,2) • Had Paul arrested and killed. (Acts 21:33)

47. Ecclesiastes 1:9 – “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and thereisnonew thingunderthesun.”

49. Isaiah 42:9 – “Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

50. Smyrna • Commission • Character • Commendation • This was a PERSECUTED church.