When a Church is Asleep

When a Church is Asleep Rev 3:1-6 | Letters for Churches

Revelation 3:1 1

And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: “The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.

I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

Revelation 3:2-3 2

Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works 3 complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.

Revelation 3:4 4

Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

Revelation 3:5-6 5

The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

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He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.�

Revelation 3:1 1

And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: “The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.

I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

When a Church is Asleep (Rev. 3:1-6) 1.

An asleep church can appear to be healthy.

Revelation 3:2 2

Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.

When a Church is Asleep (Rev. 3:1-6) 1.

An asleep church can appear to be healthy.

2.

An asleep church is eventually exposed.

Revelation 3:2 2

Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.

Revelation 3:4 4

Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

Zechariah 3:3-4 3

Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed with filthy garments. 4 And the angel said to those who were standing before him, "Remove the filthy garments from him." And to him he said, "Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with pure robes."

Revelation 22:14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.

When a Church is Asleep (Rev. 3:1-6) 1.

An asleep church can appear to be healthy.

2.

An asleep church is eventually exposed.

3.

An asleep church has unconverted members. â–Ş

True Conversion

Revelation 3:4 4

Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

FORGIVENESS HOLINESS VICTORY

Revelation 19:7-8 7

“the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; 8 it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure"-for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.

Revelation 7:9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

Revelation 7:13-14 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, "Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?" I said to him, "Sir, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

FORGIVENESS

JUSTIFICATION

HOLINESS

SANCTIFICATION

VICTORY

GLORIFICATION

Revelation 3:1-2 1b

I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead . ..

2b for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.

Revelation 3:4 4

Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

Revelation 3:5 5

The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments . . . I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

When a Church is Asleep (Rev. 3:1-6) 1.

An asleep church can appear to be healthy.

2.

An asleep church is eventually exposed.

3.

An asleep church has unconverted members. â–Ş â–Ş

True Conversion Assurance of Salvation

Revelation 3:5 5

The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

Revelation 13:8 And all who dwell on earth will worship [the beast], everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain. [ also 17:8 ]

When a Church is Asleep (Rev. 3:1-6) 1.

An asleep church can appear to be healthy.

2.

An asleep church is eventually exposed.

3.

An asleep church has unconverted members.

4.

An asleep church, by God’s grace, can change.

Revelation 3:2-3 2

Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works 3 complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent.

If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.

Revelation 3:1 1

And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: “The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.

I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.