1. Compiled and Presented by:
Letters to the Churches Dave Stewart
29 June, 2008
Las Cruces, NM
#03 www.churchofchristmiranda.com
What All Are You Trying
to Hold On To?
Revelation 2.12-17
Synopsis: The church in Pergamum was struggling with compromise.
They were trying to hold on to Jesus, but some of the Christians were also
trying to hold to false worship and sexual immorality. Jesus, who wields a
sword will come in to separate if they do not repent. This lesson reminds
us that we must be careful of the dichotomy of attempting to hold on to
two opposites. Hold fast to Jesus.
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“Let all that you do be done with love.”

2. “How long will you go limping
between two different opinions?
If Jehovah is God, follow Him;
but if Baal, then follow him.”
1 Kings 18.21

3. “So they feared Jehovah but
also served their own gods.”
2 Kings 17.33

4. “Now therefore fear Jehovah and
serve Him in sincerity and
faithfulness ...
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve
Jehovah, choose this day whom you
will serve ...
But as for me and my house, we will
serve Jehovah.”
Joshua 24.14-15

5. What All Are
You Trying To
Hold On To?
Revelation 2.12-17

7. Aegean
Sea Pergamum
Thyatira
Smyrna G A L AT
Sardis
Philadelphia
Ephesus A S I A
Laodicea
Patmos
PA
MP
HY
LIA
LY C I A
Rhodes
Great Sea
te (Mediterranean)

8. Let Him
Hear

11. Jesus

16. My Name

17. “If you confess with your mouth
that Jesus is Lord and believe in
your heart that God raised Him
from the dead, you will be
saved.”
Romans 10.9

18. “And we know that the Son of
God has come and has given us
understanding, so that we may
know Him who is true; and we
are in Him who is true, in His
Son Jesus Christ. He is the true
God and eternal life.”
1 John 5.20

19. “If we deny Him,
He also will deny us.”
2 Timothy 2.12

20. My Faith

21. “Now the Spirit expressly says
that in later times some will
depart from the faith by
devoting themselves to
deceitful spirits and
teachings of demons”
1 Timothy 4.1

22. “who forbid marriage and
require abstinence from foods
that God created to be
received with thanksgiving by
those who believe and know
the truth.”
1 Timothy 4.3

23. “For the love of money is a
root of all kinds of evils. It is
through this craving that some
have wandered from the faith
and pierced themselves with
many pangs.”
1 Timothy 6.10

24. “O Timothy, guard the deposit
entrusted to you. Avoid the
irreverent babble and
contradictions of what is falsely
called ‘knowledge,’ for by
professing it some have swerved
from the faith.”
1 Timothy 6.20-21

25. “contend
earnestly
for the faith.”
Jude 3

26. “Examine
yourselves, to
see whether
you are in the
faith.”
2 Corinthians 13.5

27. False
Worship

28. “While Israel lived in
Shittim, the people
began to whore with
the daughters of
Moab. These invited
the people to the
sacrifices of their
gods, and the people
ate and bowed down
to their gods.”
Numbers 25.1-2

29. “that you abstain from what has
been sacrificed to idols, and
from blood, and from what has
been strangled, and from sexual
immorality. If you keep
yourselves from these, you will
do well. Farewell.”
Acts 15.29

30. “Therefore, as to the eating of
food offered to idols, we know
that ‘an idol has no real
existence,’ and that ‘there is no
God but one.’”
1 Corinthians 8.4

31. “I do not want you to be
participants with demons. You
cannot drink the cup of the
Lord and the cup of demons.
You cannot partake of the table
of the Lord and the table of
demons.”
1 Corinthians 10.21-22

38. “For am I now seeking the
approval of man or of God? Or
am I trying to please man? If I
were still trying to please man, I
would not be a servant of
Christ.”
Galatians 1.10

39. Immorality

40. “While Israel lived in
Shittim, the people
began to whore with
the daughters of
Moab. These invited
the people to the
sacrifices of their
gods, and the people
ate and bowed down
to their gods.”
Numbers 25.1-2

42. “that you abstain from what has
been sacrificed to idols, and
from blood, and from what has
been strangled, and from sexual
immorality. If you keep
yourselves from these, you will
do well. Farewell.”
Acts 15.29

43. “The body is not meant for
sexual immorality, but for the
Lord, and the Lord for the
body.”
1 Corinthians 6.13

44. Put to
death
Colossians 3.5-9

45. Put on
Christ
Colossians 3.10-17

46. Jesus’
Name False
Worship
Faith in
Jesus Immorality