A Letter to the Church in Sardis
Verse 1: To the angel of the church is 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.
Verse 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.
It is clear that the seven spirits of God worked with, and through, the seven stars in the Seven Churches. The fifth of the seven spirits conveyed the message of Christ to Martin Luther (you remember him), the messenger to the Sardisean church. If we can remember Luther was taught by the prophetess Jezebel for quite some time until he received a revelation when he heard the voice of God saying “the just shall live by faith”. So from there reformation started.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Would that all Christians remember what they have received and heard concerning the word of God, or they fall into a mere form of worship. It is important to know what we hear and how we hear it so that we will receive the right things according to the will of God that we may continue to live and walk in the light of God’s word. You know failure to do so can cause the lamp in our life to be removed. God warned the Sardis church, the “escape ones”, about their short comings. Having escaped, they should have followed the path where God had wanted them to go.
Verse 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.
Verse 6: He who has ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches
Every over comer of each church will “be clothed in white raiment” which is the glorified body, given only at the first resurrection. It speaks of the righteousness of Christ in all these saints. When Christ saved a person He saved him to the uttermost. “Once saved, always saved” is true for Christ does not redeem a believer and lose him later on. But some say it is impossible because if the person after he save by Jesus he commit sin and return to his old nature, his salvation gone also. That’s why Christ is sure that if He save a person, that person is for Him forever and nobody can snatch from Him. The bible says that Romans 8:29-30 – For those God foreknow he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
A Letter to the Church in Philadelphia
Verse 7: To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
Philadelphia means “brotherly kindness” which are church in Philadelphia possessed. The saints were full of brotherly kindness. It was the greatest missionary church in the history of Christianity during which the word of God was greatly published, promulgated and preached to various nations of the world. David was a king and a warrior. So was Christ Jesus.
Verse 8: I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
In that city of Philadelphia the church at that time bore the name of Christ. Like all the churches in the days of the Apostle John, the saints were all water baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. But since the doctrine of trinity was formulated in the ONE NAME of God Almighty. The true faith was already not fully understood in the way that it should be. Nevertheless, they held to the name and did not deny it. As long as the predestinated seeds of God have a little strength, keep God’s word and do not deny His name, the door of Christ will remain open for them to refresh themselves in the word of God for the hour.
Verse 9: I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars – I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have love you.
Verse 10: Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.
Throughout the seven churches, many Christians had suffered in their own ways during their hour of temptation. But that which shall come upon the world, to try them that dwell upon the world points to a future period of eventful days of the great tribulation, after the true church is saved. It would be a dreadful hour of temptation for the people of the world but the enduring saints who keep the word of God will be spared. So, let us be patient for patience products experience and experience produces hope that will not disappoint us.
For more sources and explanation about word of God visit my http://jmhe-blogko.blogspot.com/. God bless you… all
To be continued….
Verse 1: To the angel of the church is 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.
Verse 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.
It is clear that the seven spirits of God worked with, and through, the seven stars in the Seven Churches. The fifth of the seven spirits conveyed the message of Christ to Martin Luther (you remember him), the messenger to the Sardisean church. If we can remember Luther was taught by the prophetess Jezebel for quite some time until he received a revelation when he heard the voice of God saying “the just shall live by faith”. So from there reformation started.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Would that all Christians remember what they have received and heard concerning the word of God, or they fall into a mere form of worship. It is important to know what we hear and how we hear it so that we will receive the right things according to the will of God that we may continue to live and walk in the light of God’s word. You know failure to do so can cause the lamp in our life to be removed. God warned the Sardis church, the “escape ones”, about their short comings. Having escaped, they should have followed the path where God had wanted them to go.
Verse 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.
Verse 6: He who has ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches
Every over comer of each church will “be clothed in white raiment” which is the glorified body, given only at the first resurrection. It speaks of the righteousness of Christ in all these saints. When Christ saved a person He saved him to the uttermost. “Once saved, always saved” is true for Christ does not redeem a believer and lose him later on. But some say it is impossible because if the person after he save by Jesus he commit sin and return to his old nature, his salvation gone also. That’s why Christ is sure that if He save a person, that person is for Him forever and nobody can snatch from Him. The bible says that Romans 8:29-30 – For those God foreknow he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
A Letter to the Church in Philadelphia
Verse 7: To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
Philadelphia means “brotherly kindness” which are church in Philadelphia possessed. The saints were full of brotherly kindness. It was the greatest missionary church in the history of Christianity during which the word of God was greatly published, promulgated and preached to various nations of the world. David was a king and a warrior. So was Christ Jesus.
Verse 8: I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
In that city of Philadelphia the church at that time bore the name of Christ. Like all the churches in the days of the Apostle John, the saints were all water baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. But since the doctrine of trinity was formulated in the ONE NAME of God Almighty. The true faith was already not fully understood in the way that it should be. Nevertheless, they held to the name and did not deny it. As long as the predestinated seeds of God have a little strength, keep God’s word and do not deny His name, the door of Christ will remain open for them to refresh themselves in the word of God for the hour.
Verse 9: I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars – I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have love you.
Verse 10: Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.
Throughout the seven churches, many Christians had suffered in their own ways during their hour of temptation. But that which shall come upon the world, to try them that dwell upon the world points to a future period of eventful days of the great tribulation, after the true church is saved. It would be a dreadful hour of temptation for the people of the world but the enduring saints who keep the word of God will be spared. So, let us be patient for patience products experience and experience produces hope that will not disappoint us.
For more sources and explanation about word of God visit my http://jmhe-blogko.blogspot.com/. God bless you… all
To be continued….
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