SARDIS - THE CONDEMNATION
Your works – The explanation of their deficiency appears to be that they preferred to trust the State in a time of economic need instead of God. If people leave a church with the mysterious feeling of “worship” but have not been brought face-to-face with Jesus Christ in a personal way, they have been worshiping in a dead church. Sardis could not fool the omniscient Lord Jesus who knew their deeds.
You have a name that you are alive – Sardis had the outward appearance of being alive, but its inward appearance was dead. Everything appears to be normal, but nothing is alive. Sin killed the Sardis church. Steadfast obedience is a result of a day-by-day submission to the will of God.
You are dead – Spiritual death in the New Testament is always connected with its cause, which is sin (Ephesians 2:1; Luke 9:60, 15:24, 32; Colossians 2:13; 1 Timothy 5:6; 1 John 3:14). There is nothing worse than a dead church!
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