Red Letters: Letters to The Seven Churches
Part 6
April 6, 2025

"Write this letter to the angel of the church in Philadelphia. This is the message from the one who is holy and true, “the one who has the key of David. What he opens, no one can close; and what he closes, no one can open:”
(Revelation 3:7, New Living Translation)

““I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.”
(John 14:6, NLT)

“I know all the things you do. . . . You have little strength, yet you obeyed my word and did not deny me.”
(Revelation 3:8a, c, NLT)

“I have opened a door for you that no one can close.”
(Revelation 3:8b, NLT)

"Look, I will force those who belong to Satan’s synagogue—those liars who say they are Jews but are not—to come and bow down at your feet.” “They will acknowledge that you are the ones I love.” (Revelation 3:9, NLT)

“Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.” (John 13:35, NLT)

“Because you have obeyed my command to persevere I will protect you from the great time of testing that will come upon the whole world to test those who belong to this world.”
(Revelation 3:10, NLT)

“For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the believers who have died will rise from their graves. Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Then we will be with the Lord forever.”
(1 Thessalonians 4:16–17, NLT)

“I am coming soon.”
(Revelation 3:11a, NLT)

“Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take away your crown.” (Revelation 3:11b, NLT)

“All who are victorious will become pillars in the Temple of my God, and they will never have to leave it.”
(Revelation 3:12a, NLT)

“The one thing I ask of the Lord— the thing I seek most—is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord’s perfections and meditating in his Temple.”
(Psalm 27:4, NLT)

“Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches.”
(Revelation 3:13, NLT)