Church: Past Present and Future | Pr. Raph | April 6, 2025

In this powerful message, we explore Church: Past, Present, and Future – The Raising of the Church of Overcomers. With deep biblical insight, the journey through Revelation chapters 2 and 3 reveals that each church speaks not only to a historical moment but to a spiritual condition relevant for today. From Ephesus to Laodicea, Christ’s words challenge us to return to our first love, endure hardship with faith, resist compromise, pursue intimacy, shine with good works, stay spiritually awake, and respond to divine discipline with repentance. These are not churches lost in history—they are prophetic portraits of the Bride Christ is preparing for His return.

This message reminds us that the church is not a side-project or optional community in our walk with God. It is central, essential, and eternal. Jesus walks among the churches. He speaks to them, disciplines them, rewards them. To be outside the church is to be outside His work. But to those who overcome—to those who listen and obey—He promises crowns, intimacy, honor, and a place on His throne. This message is not merely ecclesiological but deeply personal: Will you be found among the overcomers?