The Source of Fervour. Our resurrection bodies will be the image of Christ's, constituted for eternal glory: physical, tangible, yet spiritual, powerful and perfect. Death - the great devourer - will be itself swallowed up by the final victory of Christ. Here is how we should be affected and inspired even now.

Christian Loyalty.

Compromising Sardis and faithful Philadelphia are here contrasted. Doctrine was right, but the 'works' of Sardis were its ruin, doubtless because members accommodated in their lives idolatry. Today the equivalent is worldliness in personal life and in worship. Which church do we resemble?

Refusing God. Christ's parable of a great supper with invitations refused, reflects our rejection of God's overtures to us. Here are our main reasons for refusing Him, and all that we lose by it. Here, too, is how we may reverse our rejection, the greatest moment of our life.

End Time Glory.

Christ's resurrection guarantees the day when He shall return and His people shall receive their resurrection bodies. Here is the manner of it, and the accompanying acts of Christ that end the tyranny of death and all opposition, ushering in unbreakable glory and bliss

God's Directions for Happiness. A remarkable group of proverbs teach that spiritual joy must be deepened by the individual believer taking the rights steps here enumerated. They also show that joy needs spiritual priorities, restraint over material things, fellowship, control of anger, and worthy not trivial meat for the mind. Here is spiritual happiness!