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!! Rev 2: 12-17 Pergamum and Compromise
!! Maranatha Baptist Church.
July 31, 2005
*What exactly is this weekend.
On your calendars, Monday is most commonly declared as a civil holiday.*
The more commonly-understood definition is that the civic holiday is an annual holiday, celebrated on the first Monday of August in most Canadian provinces.
However, its legal status and name is *far from uniform nationwide*.
Two provinces and one territory do not recognize it at all, and five other provinces do not oblige employers to offer holiday pay on this day.
This leaves only three provinces and two territories where the first Monday in August is a full statutory holiday and employers are obliged to pay their employees holiday pay.
!!! Jurisdictions which have a /statutory/ holiday on the first Monday of August
British Columbia (*British Columbia Day*) New Brunswick (*New Brunswick Day*) Northwest Territories (*Civic Holiday*) Nunavut (*Civic Holiday*) Saskatchewan (*Saskatchewan Day*)
!!! Jurisdictions which have a /civic/ holiday on the first Monday of August
Alberta (*Heritage Day*) Manitoba (*Civic Holiday*) Nova Scotia (*Natal Day*) Prince Edward Island (*Natal Day*) Ontario (*Simcoe Day*)
Some *Ontarian municipalities* have a *different name* for the holiday.
From a legal standpoint, a *civic holiday* is usually defined *as /any/ holiday* which is *legally recognized* but where the *employer is not obliged to offer holiday pay.
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1982 - The City of *Brantford** *adopted a policy that stated that the civic holiday be named "*Founders' Day*".
Each year, the Brantford Heritage Committee submits a report to City Council with the name or organization that is to be recognized on that day.
!!! Jurisdictions which have /no/ holiday on the first Monday of August
Newfoundland and Labrador (celebrates Discovery Day on June 24) Quebec (celebrates St. Jean Baptiste Day on June 24) Yukon (celebrates Discovery Day later in August).
*Regardless *of what this weekend is called, */for many/* it is a *time of excess*, and the *pressesure* is on people *to indulge likewise.*
*This entire month* does have a special meaning.
The Term “*August*” means Regal, majestic, imposing, grandiose, and is named *after the Roman leadership*.
In *Rev.
2,* the *Church at Pergamum* was dealing with the *August Roman leadership*.
The problem of the *Roman Empire* was the problem of unification.
The empire stretched from the river *Euphrates** to the shores of the **Irish sea*: from *Germany to North Africa*, from *Spain** to **Egypt**.*
Here were *all kinds* of *peoples, and languages, and faiths, and traditions*.
How could they be welded into a *unity*?
How could the consciousness of one empire be brought into the lives of such diverse peoples?
There is no unifying force like the force of a *common religion*; and Caesar worship lay ready at hand
On a certain day in the year *every Roman citizen had to come to the **Temple** of **Caesar* and had to *burn a pinch of incense* there, and say: “*Caesar is Lord*.”
When he had done that, he was given a *certificate to guarantee that he had done so.*
After a man had burned his pinch of incense and had acknowledged Caesar as Lord, he *could go away and worship any god he liked, so long as the worship did not affect public decency and order.*
This of course was a great problem for the Christians, who believed that only Jesus is Lord.
It lead to great pressure to compromise.
For *us here today* the pressure is great as well.
*Society *tells us that we must live in *harmony with other faiths* and any *exclusive claim to absolute truth is arrogant*.
People are allowed to have *private beliefs* and as in Pergamum we can *go away and worship any god we like, so long as the worship did not affect public decency and order.*
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*The message** *to the* Church at Pergamum *and the message* to us is that Jesus knows our situation *and gives us* guidance in the **Comment about the Church **2: 12**,**/ Commendation of the church.
/**/2:13/**/,/** Complaint of the Church **2:14**,**/ Call to repentance.
/**/2:16/*/,*The command to hear and the promise to the overcomer.
*/*/2:17/**/./*
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*1)     **Comment about the Church **2: 12*
*Rev 2:12*  "And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: 'The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.
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*the angels**.
*The word lit.
means “*messenger*.”
Although it can mean angel—and does throughout the book—it cannot refer to angels here because angels are never *leaders in the church*.
Most likely, these messengers are the 7 key *elders representing each of those churches*
* *
*Pergamos* (means */high tower/*/ /or */thoroughly married/*/./) was the church of worldly alliance.
*(modern **Bergama*), the *capital city of the province of **Asia*
* It was *located* about *55 miles northeast of **Ephesus*.
The Kingdom of Pergamum became a *Roman province b.c.
130*.
* It was at Pergamos that *parchment was first used as a writing material* and here that the Attalid kings built a magnificent *library* of *200,000 volumes*.
* *The word parchment*, made from the hides of sheep, derived its name from Pergamos.
·        *remarkable for* its *learning, refinement, and science*, especially *medicine*
 
It was a rival of Ephesus in the *temples *to *Zeus, Athena, Dionysos*, in the great grove Nicephorium (the glory of the city).
Next to this was the grove and temple of Asklepios, the *god of healing*, called the god of Pergamum, with a university for medical study.
·        Thousands of harmless snakes inhabited the area around the temple.
From the ends of the empire, people *came to seek healing* in this temple.
o       The *caduceus,* the *twisted serpent symbol that represents the medical profession*, comes from Greek mythology and represents the god Asclepius.
In a temple dedicated to him, there was a *school of medicine* where nonpoisonous snakes crawled all over the floor.
The ill would lay on the floor so the snakes could crawl on them.
Wherever the snakes touched them, they would supposedly be healed.
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*Application:*
* Where is it *in **Canada** that we put or faith*.
How may see *Faith in Medicine* as the *saviour and god* of this country.
It is the aspect of *healing* that most *false teachers *appeal to *the inner idolatry of people*.
The message to Pergamum and the message to us is from Him who has:
/ /
/The sharp two- edged sword:/
/ /
/Please turn back to Hebrews 4:12/
/ /
The *imagery* depicted here is important.
This is a *royal contrast* *from the Roman worship*.
Specifically we see it *starting in Heb.
**4:12* with the *word of God*.
Bear in* Mind that from John 1, Christ is described as the Logos or word.*
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Heb 4:12  For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Heb 4:13  And *no creature is hidden* from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must *give account*.
*Heb 4:14*  Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us *hold fast our confession*.
Heb 4:15  For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Heb 4:16  Let us then with confidence draw near to the *throne of grace*, that we may receive mercy and *find grace to help in time of need*.
(1.)
*The word of God is a sword*; it is a *weapon both offensive and defensive*, it is, in the hand of God, able to slay both sin and sinners.
(2.)
It is a */sharp sword/*/./
No heart is so hard but it is able to cut it;
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It is a */sword with two edges/*/;/ it turns and cuts every way.
There is the */edge/ of the* *law against the transgressors* of that dispensation, and the */edge/ of the gospel against the despisers *of that dispensation; there is an *edge to make a wound*, and an *edge to open a festered wound in order to its healing.*
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* It has a *penetrating power* to *convince* and *convert *some (2:13, 17) and to *convict* and *condemn *others (2:14-16).
The description *recalls **1:16* and *anticipates **2:16**.*
*1)     **Comment about the Church **2: 12*
*/2)    /**/Commendation of the church.
/**/2:13/**/./*
*Rev 2:13*  "'I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is.
Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
Keep your finger in Rev. 2 and *please turn to Ps 139*
 
*He who yields the two-edged sword “knows”:*
* He knows: your problems with your spouse, kids, boss, co-workers, family and you life situation.
*Psa 139:1*  To the choirmaster.
A Psalm of David.
O LORD, you have searched me and known me! Psa 139:2  You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
Psa 139:3  You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
Psa 139:4  Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.
Psa 139:5  You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
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