Series: "Hearing the Spirit: A Vision for Renewal"
"Hearing the Spirit: Wake Up and Strengthen What Remains"
Chapter 1: "Hearing the Spirit: The Vison of Christ"
Chapter 2:
Ephesus "Ignite Your First Love"
Smyrna "Endure with Hope"
Pergamum "Stand Firm Against Compromise"
Thyatira "Hold Fast to Truth"
Sardis "Wake Up and Strengthen What Remains"
Scripture Text: Revelation 3:1-6 (NIV)
1 “To the angel of the church in Sardis write:
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.
2 Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God.
3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, 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 have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy.
5 The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.
6 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
1: Confront the Complacency that Kills (vv. 1-2)
2: Celebrate the Faithful Few (v. 4)
3: Cling to the Promise of Eternal Life (vv. 5-6)