1. Pastor Keone Revelations 2:8-11
Faithful Until the End
Pastor Keone
Revelations 2:8-11

2. Elements of address to each church
Greeting
Title of Jesus
“I know” commendation with assurance or criticism
Command
Exhortation to listen
Promise to overcomers

3. Revelation 2:8
8 "To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:

7. 8 "To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
Revelation 2:8
8 "To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
Smyrna
Seaport, 2nd in honor only to Ephesus
One of the first cities to worship the Roman emperor and build a temple to him.

8. Revelation 2:8 8 "To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again.

9. Revelation 2:8
8 "To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again.
Jesus is
The First and the Last
The one who died and came to life again

10. Revelation 2:9-10a
9 I know your afflictions and your poverty-- yet you are rich! I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. 10 Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days.

11. Revelation 2:9-10a
9 I know your afflictions and your poverty-- yet you are rich! I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. 10 Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days.
“I know” commendation with assurance

12. Revelation 2:10b
Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life.

13. Revelation 2:10b
Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Command: Be faithful until the end

14. Mark 8: Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? 37 Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

15. Mark 10: Peter said to him, "We have left everything to follow you!" 29 "I tell you the truth," Jesus replied, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields-- and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life.

16. Revelation 2:11 11 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death.

17. Revelation 2:11 11 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death. Exhortation Promise to overcomers

20. Be Faithful Until the End