This is the fourth lesson of a series based on the book Letters From The Lamb. This lesson covers the second of the letters to the seven churches of Asia in Revelation, the letter to Smyrna

1. © 2009, www.lettersfromthelamb.com Smyrna

2. When the soldiers arrived at the house, the elderly man, Polycarp, received them as friends

3. He insisted that they be well fed while he spent an hour in prayer

4. What harm is there in saying Lord Caesar, and to sacrifice, and to save your life? I will not do what you advise On the way, Polycarp’s captors reasoned with him

5. The stadium in Smyrna was full when the governor tried Polycarp

6. Consider your age. Save yourself! Renounce Christ. Eighty and six years have I served him

7. Consider your age. Save yourself! Renounce Christ. and he never did me wrong

8. Consider your age. Save yourself! Renounce Christ. How can I now blaspheme my King who saved me?

9. Swear by the genius of Caesar If you are so vain as to think that I would swear by the genius of Caesar

10. Swear by the genius of Caesar hear my free confession:

11. Swear by the genius of Caesar hear my free confession: I am a Christian.

12. I will have you burned alive! You threaten fire that burns for a moment and is extinguished

13. I will have you burned alive! for you know nothing of the judgment to come

14. I will have you burned alive! and the fire of eternal punishment reserved for the wicked

15. Be faithful to the point of death

19. Revelation 2:8-11

27. He who has ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches