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SPIRITUAL APATHY - ENDTIMES CHAT with GJ and DAN 

The spiritual condition of a church is not easily known. We THINK we know what a church is like. Some of us even think we know all about a church with just one visit.

Someone who may have visited the church in Sardis (John's fifth letter written by him from Jesus in Revelation 3:1-6) would have seen a church that had a good reputation. In most people's eyes, the church there was "spiritually alive." The caution is not to be too quick to judge the outward appearance or performance of a church or a person. The important questions deal with the inward person, the realm of the unseen, the heart of the individual.

Our reputation is no guarantee of inward character. Many of us major in a good reputation. We want people to think well of us and to say nice things about us. But our reputation is only what people think we are; our character is who God knows us to be. The church in Sardis had a "name", a profession, a reputation, but it was not the truth about their spiritual condition.

Jesus said this church was unconcerned about their spiritual condition. They were "asleep."

Jesus said they were unaware of how serious their condition was. They needed to "strengthen the things that remain."

Jesus said they were unresponsive to what the Lord wanted when He said "I have not found your works perfect before God."

He also told this church (and our churches)to remember what the Bible teaches, re-establish our loyalty and obedience to what God teaches in His Word, and to repent of our wrong attitudes and practices.

Jesus also promises that if we do these things, there are three wonderful promises that await us:

1. Perfection - as we will walk with Him in white, clothed in white garments.

2. Security - Jesus will NOT blot out our names from the Book of Life.

3. Acceptance - Jesus will confess our name before His Father and before His angels

Tune in to find out more!

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