Post on 15-Dec-2015
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These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.
I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
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2 Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. 3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. 4 Yet you have a few people in Sardis who
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have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. 5 He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. 6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
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Condemnation3:1 I know your deeds;
Alive yet dead.2 Tim. 3:5 having a form of godliness but
denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. “
You’ve become complacent.
Your deeds are incomplete. -- energy, activity
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1 Samuel 15:22"Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and
sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice,
Hosea 6:66 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and
acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
Mark 12:3333 To love him with all your heart, with all your
understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."
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Challenge
Remember – Take heed
Obey – Apply
Repent – Decide to ChangeJames 1:22-25 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it-he will be blessed in what he does.
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The WarningLike a Thief
The PromiseThose who remain faithful -- unbreakable
guarantee will break the relationship.
Those with unsoiled clothes -- will walk with him.