Revelation 2

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1. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

   XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites Rev. 2:23

   … hearts and trying the reins, "that he may render to everyone according to his works?" As Rev. 2:23, "And all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts; and …

2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

   Obedience cites Rev 2: 26

   … perseverance. ‘He that keepeth my works unto the end, I will give him the morning star.’ Rev 2: 26, 28. Use one. This condemns those who live in contradiction to the text, and have cast of…

3. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

   The Third Stage cites Rev. 2:4

   … his sorrow the more, by bringing again, even afresh, his evil of sleeping unto his mind. Rev. 2:4; 1 Thess. 5:6-8. Thus, therefore, he now went on, bewailing his sinful sleep, saying, O w…

4. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

   An exhortation to love God cites Rev. ii. 4

   …ontinued to Him. Love, as fire, will be ready to go out. “Thou hast left thy first love” (Rev. ii. 4). Satan labours to blow out this flame, and through neglect of duty we lose it. When a te…

5. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

   On Sin in Believers cites Rev. 2:24

   …atience: Thou hast patience, and for my names sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted?” (Rev. 2:24.) But was there, meantime, no sin in his heart? Yea, or Christ would not have added, “Nev…

6. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

   XII. Nothing can be certainly concluded concerning the nature of religious affections, that any are the subjects of, from this, that the outward manifestations of them, and the relation persons give of them, are very affecting and pleasing to the truly godly, and such as greatly gain their charity, cites Rev. 2:17

   …lainly teach us, that the state of others' souls towards God cannot be known by us, as in Rev. 2:17: "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and I will give him a wh…

7. The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith · Charles H. Spurgeon

   The Month of April cites Rev. 2:11

   …Spirit saith unto the churches; he that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death" Rev. 2:11 The first death we must endure unless the Lord should suddenly come to His temple. For th…

8. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

   X. Another thing wherein those affections that are truly gracious and holy, differ from those that are false, is beautiful symmetry and proportion cites Rev. 2:17

   …" So it is with gracious joys: they are hidden manna, in this respect, as well as others, Rev. 2:17. The Psalmist seems to speak of his sweetest comforts, as those that were to be had in se…

9. The Fourfold Gospel · A. B. Simpson

   Christ Our Coming Lord cites Rev. ii. 28

   "I will give him the morning star." Rev. ii. 28. The Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is a distinct and important part of the Apost…

10. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.2 Love cites Rev 2: 4

    …of your heart. Love, like fire, is ever ready to go out. ‘Thou hast left thy first love.’ Rev 2: 4. Through neglect of duty, or too much love of the world, our love to God will cool. O pre…

11. The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Month of January cites Rev. 2:7

    …th will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God." Rev. 2:7 No man may turn his back in the day of battle, or refuse to go to the holy war. We must f…

12. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Personality of the Holy Spirit cites Revelation 2:7

    …ings of God and then reveals to us the precious discoveries which He has made. We read in Revelation 2:7, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spiri t says to the churches. To the one who c…

13. The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Month of May cites Rev. 2:28

    …d patient worker and waiter! May 13 DAY IS AT HAND "And I will give him the morning star" Rev. 2:28 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, what a blessing it is to see in Jesus "th…

14. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Tenth Stage cites Rev. 2:7

    …, and your walk and talk shall be every day with the King, even all the days of eternity. Rev. 2:7; 3:4,5; 22:5. There you shall not see again such things as you saw when you were in the l…

15. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    3.3 The Wrath of God cites Rev 2: 21

    …s according to our iniquities.’ God has deferred his wrath, and given us space to repent. Rev 2: 21. He is not like a hasty creditor, who requires the debt, and gives no time for payment; h…

16. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The worst things work for good to the godly cites Rev. ii. 7

    …nder; though he cannot quite overcome, yet he is overcoming. “To him that is overcoming” (Rev. ii. 7). (e) Sin puts a child of God upon self-observing. He knows sin is a bosom traitor, there…

17. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Eighth Stage cites Rev. 2:10

    …yourself true-hearted; be faithful unto death, and my King will give you a crown of life. Rev. 2:10. I would also entreat you to have an eye to my children; and if at any time you see them …

18. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The Deity of Jesus Christ cites Rev. 2:23

    …according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings." But in the New Testament in Rev. 2:23 the Lord Jesus says, "I am he which searcheth the reins and the hearts: and I will give u…

19. Watchman Nee · Watchman Nee

    Revolution, Persecution, and the Cost of Discipleship cites Revelation 2:10

    …ars became twenty. “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life” (Revelation 2:10, ASV). Few verses could have sounded less metaphorical. The next chapter enters those hid…

20. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    February cites Revelation 2:4

    …y to return. O Lord, this night restore us! February 11 “Thou hast left thy first love.” (Revelation 2:4) Ever to be remembered is that best and brightest of hours, when first we saw the Lord, l…

21. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour · Dwight L. Moody

    October cites Rev. ii. 10

    …ard Fuller. October 21 Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Rev. ii. 10. There is a heaven at the end of every faithful Christian's journey.—Cuyler. October 22 F…

22. Our Daily Walk · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    December cites Rev 2:17

    …nd Thummim, by which He spoke to Israel, and on which Jehovah was engraved (Ex 28:29, 30; Rev 2:17). Each victor over sin has his own stone of Urim, knows God's will at first hand, and has…

23. The Bruised Reed · Richard Sibbes

    Christ will not quench small and weak beginnings cites Rev. ii. 4

    … most part we see Christ planteth in young beginners a love which we call the first love, Rev. ii. 4, to carry them through their profession with more delight, and doth not expose them to cr…

24. The Bruised Reed · Richard Sibbes

    Tenderness required in ministers toward young beginners cites Rev. ii.2

    … commendations of the church of Ephesus, that it could not bear with them which are evil, Rev. ii.2. We should so bear with others, as we discover withal a dislike of evil. Our Saviour Chri…