Smyrna: SUFFERING Through Many Tribulations

SMYRNA: LEARNING HOW TO DIE
The most important decision you will ever make in life is how you want to die! The saints at Smyrna wanted to die in Jesus.
It was not easy to be a Christian at Smyrna, and yet the letter to Smyrna is one of the two in which there is undiluted praise.

Martyrdom
First of all, our lives do not belong to us anyway.

Secondly, we are all going to die anyway if the Lord does not come in the meantime.

Thirdly, the least we could do would by to die for Him.

Finally, it is criminal to hug our lives when through their reckless abandonment eternal blessing might flow to our fellow men.

The pathway to true discipleship begins when a person is born again. It begins when the following events take place:
When a person realizes that he is sinful, lost, blind, and naked before God.

When he acknowledges that he cannot save himself by good character or good works.

When he believes that the Lord Jesus Christ died as his Substitute on the Cross.