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Antipas: a Faithful Witness, Martyred for His Faith Summer Sermon Series “God Uses People Like Me” Kenwood Baptist Church Pastor David Palmer August 6, 2017 Antipas: A Faithful Witness, Martyred for His Faith Summer Sermon Series “God Uses People Like Me” Kenwood Baptist Church Pastor David Palmer August 6, 2017 TEXT: Revelation 2:12-17 Good morning, Kenwood. We continue this morning in our summer equipping series that looks at the body of Christ and asks the question: “How God can use people just like you and me?” My heart is full already this morning at seeing our church being used by God all week. We had over a hundred children come to soccer camp, and 70% of those children were from the community. I think that's awesome. We had non-Christian neighbors in our neighborhood come, and I think it was the first Christian event they had ever been to. I remember after the first night, the evening closed with the explicit prayer in the Name of Jesus, and I wondered if my neighbor was offended in any way, but he just reached his hand to me and said, “Thank you for inviting us.” The next day, when players from FC Cincinnati came and gave a very articulate and compelling testimony of their faith in Jesus Christ, I saw friends who didn't know Christ and all these children and parents standing there hearing the gospel presented. I believe with all my heart that they wouldn't have come here to our backfield. The fact that we were out in a public space, in an open community space, they were willing to come, and yet the gospel was presented. I thought, “I wonder what they’re thinking.” One came up to me afterwards and said, “You know, those guys were right! Jesus is looking down on us,” and I thought, “That's a great start. You can really build on that.” I believe that God is leading our church and building us in increasing our capacity and desire and appetite for sharing Christ with our neighbors and friends. That is a very exciting thing about Kenwood and it fits very well with our summer series. This morning, we turn to an important topic, another minor character in the New Testament, a man who is mentioned only a single time, in one passage—in Revelation 2, a man named Antipas. He was described as a faithful witness, a man who was martyred for his faith. The European-based Center for Religious Studies Research Institute published a report that said that 90,000 Christians were killed for their faith last year. That means 250 a day; that means Page 1 of 11 five in the space of this sermon. Six hundred million Christians were prevented or blocked from practicing their faith, so persecution is very real. Yet, as we look at Antipas, I have been most challenged looking at what we know of his life, his story, the situation in which he lost his life. The death of Antipas actually challenges all of us to really live for Christ. That's the mystery of Antipas’ martyrdom and all who suffer for the Name of Christ, that those who die for the Name of Christ challenge all the rest of us to really live for Him, and that is where we are headed this morning. When you think of people in your life that really challenge you, it's often this way: the people who go through intense suffering often challenge our own pursuit of comfort and ease. We all pursue our own comfort and ease, whether it's the angle of the seat were sitting in, or the frustration we express when the seat warmers don't work on our car in the winter season. Those who suffer for their faith challenge us and expose the folly of looking just for this world and help us also to scale down our concerns. People who go through intense hardship inspire our own perseverance and courage. Faithful witness in a hostile environment ends up making us bolder for Christ. We will discover this in the case of Antipas. Keep your Bible open to Revelation 2. Revelation 2:12-17 is a portion of the opening chapters of this Revelation of Jesus that is an unveiling of who He is as the true Lord of the world, the one with all power in the universe. The early chapters of Revelation are a set of letters addressed by the exalted Jesus to His Bride, the church in the world. There is historical context, specificity, to each of these, and Antipas’ story takes place within the context of a letter to the church at Pergamum. In Revelation2:12, the Lord speaks: “And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘The words of Him who has the sharp two-edged sword.’” That’s an image of from Revelation 1 of Jesus with His authoritative Word and power, and He addresses the church gathered in Pergamum. This is the church of which Antipas was a part. Pergamum was a spectacular city in the first century. The Hungarian artist, Balage Baloche, has reproduced what Pergamum looked like in the time of the New Testament. It was a spectacular city; it was the leading city; it was the capital city of the Roman province of Asia; it was a very wealthy city. I know there are many Page 2 of 11 doctors and medical students here, and in the foreground of this image was one of the leading centers of healing in the ancient world. It was a spa complex. We haven't invented that. It had a place where you could go, a theater—as if you need a theater in a hospital—so people could relax. The foreground area was dedicated to Asclepius, the god of healing. As you move forward towards the city, you'll see the institutions of any pagan city: large theaters, open-air forums, marketplaces, and towering in the distance, 1300 feet up above the city, was the Acropolis area. It was modeled on the Acropolis of Athens. A computer-generated reconstruction of Pergamum in the first century takes us up to this top area. At the top area of the Acropolis there are many different pagan temples. There was a theater with 10,000 seat capacity and had the steepest seating incline of any theater in the ancient world. The top of the area around Pergamum was filled with temples, the most important of them are these two: Pergamum had the first temple explicitly dedicated to the worship of the Roman Emperor and the Roman goddess Fortuna. It was the center of the Imperial cult in this region. The summit of the area of Pergamum also had an expansive, large altar dedicated to Zeus. You can see it is that square structure in the foreground. In Revelation 2:13 the Lord says: “I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is.” For some of us, it really catches us off guard to hear Satan's throne is in my backyard. “Maybe I should move to Finneytown!” That's not a desirable thing, and yet the imagery here of Satan's Page 3 of 11 throne is related to these very real structures, the temple for the Imperial cult and, most probably this structure here, the great altar of Zeus that stood on the top of that 1300 foot summit. The altar of Zeus was 60 feet wide, 60 feet deep, with a monumental staircase going in. The monumental altar dedicated to Zeus, that stood on top of the city, was a center of civic pride. It was an expression of the religion of the day. It was worship required to acknowledge Zeus as supreme in his Greek name, Jupiter by his Roman name. It was an altar in which sacrifice continuously burned. It was an altar where you asserted your civic participation in society and said: “These are the gods we pay homage to, who guarantee protection, economic prosperity, military success,” and it was a very public test of loyalty in the society in a very large and public space. The altar of Zeus was so well preserved that when the German archaeologist Carl Humamm excavated, he said: “These stones are so spectacular, I’m going to take them home,” and he took them with him to Germany, and in the archaeological museum in Berlin, Germany, the altar of Zeus is the prize possession of the collection of classical antiquity even to this day. This is the image of a very wealthy, prosperous society, but a society that required of you acknowledgment of the powers that be, that demanded and insisted on your participation on these terms: Acknowledge Zeus as the highest authority; offer incense for the protection and preservation of the Emperor—men who claimed to be like God. I have had good soccer on my mind in a new way this week with the kids and the camp. Many of us went to the game last night. I was prepping myself for the game, and I was looking at some of the greatest goals in soccer this year. You know that when you watch one video, you get prompted to watch another video. The next video in line was “Christian Rinaldo's greatest goals of all time.” The thing that was jarring to me was the subtitle of the video. The question was: “Is he human?” This guy is so good at soccer that you just might worship him. That's not so far in our day from what's being demanded of the Christians living in this setting. As different as it might seem, as far away as it might feel, the reality is that the church always, always exists in a world that will demand your highest allegiance.
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