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This morning.

We're going to look at the 5th of the letters to the seven churches from The Book of Revelation.

This letter is to the church at Sardis, sad.

Tragic left your router sad and tragic church.

Because this church is dead.

Clearly at the end of Revelation, 31 Seasons says, and yet, you are dead.

That has to be the old with the shame have Jesus himself.

After all of church by definition is a place where God lives a place where Christians are alive.

It is in fact a fellowship, referral life, but not this church.

Revelations, 3 1 through 6 to the angel of the Church of Sardis, right?

He who has seven spirits of God.

In the Seven Stars says this, I know your Deeds that you have a name that you are alive, and you have to work to be constantly alert and strengthen, the things that remain, which were about to die.

So I have not found your Deeds completed in the side of my God.

So remember what you have received in further and keep it in the.

Can you work off of work?

I will come like a thief and you will not know it 1 hour.

I would come to you but you have a few people and starters who have not spoiled their Gardens and they want to see it white cuz they are worthy.

The one who overcomes will be closed the same way like Gardens and I will not erase his name from The Book of Life and I Fast is named for my father before his angels, the one who has an ear.

Let him hear what the spirit says to the churches.

The words you are dead, identify.

The neighbors church.

The church is Sardis is the very reverse of the church's Smyrna.

Smyrna was put to death and you have to live Sardis appeared to be a lie.

And you have this dead.

The church had a reputation that it was a lie.

But in fact, it was the astronomers tell us with the light from The Polar Star takes 33 years to return.

What that means is that this star could have died 3 years ago, and it's light and still be pouring down Earth.

It would be shining in the sky tonight.

As brightly as if nothing happened.

It could be a dead star.

The probe has three years.

We wouldn't help Stead.

The Church of Sardis was like that.

It had a name.

The name appeared to say that it was a lie.

It was shining solely by the light of a swirly in the past, but in the present.

Now remember this was an actual Church in an actual City in Asia Minor, but as each of these churches is this one, also is simple.

This one represents dead churches throughout all the ages of the church.

It speaks of a certain kind of church.

He's kind of churches exist today.

So if we look at the letter, we're not only learning history who we're dealing with relevancy for the church.

Today are familiar outline, begins with a look at the corresponding.

We meet the offer.

In first one to the angel.

That is the messenger who has come to John to receive the worrier.

Church, probably one of their Elders or the leading Pastor.

That messenger the church and Sardis, right?

Here's the letter.

I want him to take back the church and he immediately, as he always does, he reduces himself.

And then this particular letter he describes himself, as he, who has the seven spirits of God, and the Seven Stars, we've seen that description of the writer.

In each of these verses was Jesus.

This comes from the vision in chapter one verses 12 through 16.

However, in this case that Vision has to also share component with the earlier part of the chapter and verse for John to the seven churches that are in Asia grace to you and peace from him, who is and who was and who is to come and from the seven spirits who are before his throne.

That designation refers to the Holy Spirit.

You also will note that in verse 16 Christ was described as holding the Seven Stars in his hand and down at her 20.

The Seven Stars are indeed.

The seven messengers of the seven churches.

Now, if you ever do such as himself as the one who has the seven spirits of God.

Now we know there is one.

Holy spirit that the Trinity is just that is three members.

Father God, the son and God the Holy Spirit, or the holy spirit, is described as a Sevenfold spirit.

This can be a reference to Isaiah, 11:2.

The spirit of the Lord will rest on him.

The spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and strengthen the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord adding those six.

To the time Spirit of the Lord gives you the stuff...

That would be the Holy Spirit described in the fullest is Operation rather than the 7 Spirits.

It is the 7th full.

The Oz is on the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

The one who has the Holy Spirit, the one who kids to put it this way represented in his church, by Holy Spirit.

Secondly, then he says and a one who also has the Seven Stars.

The seven leaders of the church.

Now, why does he introduce himself in this fashion?

I believe what he is saying here is simply that the one who writes this letter is the one who ministers is church, throughout the Holy Spirit and through.

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God will pastors.

Why would he say that the service?

I guess the best response to that, as a reminder of what they had forfeited, a dead Church would not have the benefit of the living power of the Holy Spirit, nor would it have leaders who were Godly and who manifested the light and power of God that was the problem.

It's almost as if he introduces himself as the one who saw barely works in his church through the spirit through God, L. Both of which were absent in the case of the Church of Sardis.

That is not to say.

There wasn't a particular leader there who was a True Believer, but maybe simply to emphasize the fact that in the deadness.

They have forfeited spiritual leadership in the power of the Holy Spirit.

We have to say that the way Christ introduces himself in the letter, doesn't give us a hint of the severity of the situation.

Remind me to expected that he would introduce himself in judgment prescription like you did for the letter n p, a Tyro with eyes like a flame of fire and feet like burnished bronze, but that is not the case has himself describing himself as the one who gives to his church.

The Holy Spirit and gives to his church Godly leadership.

Maybe it's a reminder of what they don't have but the historical for their deadness, the light, the power of the holy spirit is not there.

Neither is The Godly leadership and they desperately needed both.

Devoid of the spirit and devoid of the Spirit-filled Godly leaders.

The church was dead.

You're them was a church dominated by The Flash dominated by sin, dominated by unbelief populated by the unregenerate.

A church populated by the unsaved who did not have the life of God in them.

And apparently also populated by a few Christians, who were indifferent.

The result was a good church.

We moved from the correspondent to the city itself.

And I need only say a few things about Sardis, just to give you a little bit of a feeling of the reality of a city.