From Alive in Christ To Dead as His Church
Christ’s report contains a tragic finding: the Body of Christ, the Church at Sardis, appeared dead at the moment. They no longer looked alive in Christ, their minds no longer fixed on Christ. They were walking corpses: acting, thinking, and responding just like all those who were dead in trespasses and sin around them.
Jesus demands that these “church-attenders” repent of just going through the motions of acting like Christians, and get His power at work within them. Sardis had a big name but no life; they were dead as last week’s cut flowers, cold and lifeless.
The saints at Sardis had gone ‘from holiness to phoniness’; they had “a name,” as Jesus said, but it was only talk; there was no life to back up the claim.
Jesus spent most of His public ministry bumping up against lifeless religion. Jesus warned those closest to the things of God (the Temple serving priests and Bible teaching Pharisees) that they were going to be cast out into outer darkness.
From WOLFL-2024-07 – End Of Days Health Warnings (240417AM) – https://youtu.be/FXUm6aptjRA
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