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CELEBRATING 4th YEAR

OF SERVING THE LORD
Train a child in the way he should go, and when
he is old he will not turn from it. Proverbs 22:6
 This is the fifth church that we are studying in
this series. There are seven churches that Jesus
examines, and tries to keep pure and right. The
first four churches dealt with:
Ephesus - Keeping our First Love, First
• Smyrna – Staying faithful, consistent,
dependable as Christians
• Pergamos – A Worldly church needed to
repent of compromise
• Thyatira – Purifying an Impure Church
• Today we want to look at the needs of the
fifth church – Sardis. A church in a city of Asia
minor (modern Turkey)
• Here's a church that is a dead church, and yet it has a
reputation for being a “living” church.
• They had a reputation for being alive, but are dead now.
• The membership in this church must grow, and yet they
were not growing!
 v. 3 Remember therefore how you
have received and heard; hold fast and
repent. Therefore if you will not watch,
I will come upon you as a thief, and
you will not know what hour I will
come upon you.
 be observant –
pay close attention
 Every time we attend our church
gathering let us allow the word of
GOD to examine ourselves.
 v. 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do
not consider his appearance or his
height, for I have rejected him. The Lord
does not look at the things man looks
at. Man looks at the outward
appearance, but the Lord looks at the
Rev.3:2 (NKJV) Be watchful, and
strengthen the things which
remain, that are ready to die,
for I have not found your works
perfect before God.
 v. 3 Remember therefore how you
have received and heard; hold fast and
repent. Therefore if you will not watch,
I will come upon you as a thief, and
you will not know what hour I will
come upon you.