Revelation 3:1–6
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Expect Jesus to Give You a Fresh Message.
Expect Jesus to Give You a Fresh Message.
Expect Jesus to Give You an Honest Spiritual Evaluation.
Expect Jesus to Give You an Honest Spiritual Evaluation.
Expect Jesus to Give You a Corrective Plan.
Expect Jesus to Give You a Corrective Plan.
Expect Jesus to Give You a Promise of Eternal Benefits.
Expect Jesus to Give You a Promise of Eternal Benefits.
Jesus Gives us a Prescription for Revival
Jesus Gives us a Prescription for Revival
Today’s message is Jesus’ prescription for revival. Church revival has not always been determined by the page on a calendar. Revival was not always planned to begin on the 2nd Sunday of August or the 2nd Sunday of September. Throughout the Bible, we find that God always plans a revival for a remnant of His people, just before judgment is executed upon sin.
When trust in God’s Word had dried up, God send Noah a message of revival, before the flood waters of judgment came. Moses delivered Pharoah a message concerning God’s deliverance of His people, before judgment came on Egypt. Moses warned the Israelites that sliding back into sin would be met by God’s judgment, so that a remnant could be lead to repentance and revived.
The lists of messages culminate, when God send His Son, Jesus, not to judge the world but to save the world. The offer of revival and survival is for everyone, but only a remnant will heed the warnings of coming judgment and accept the offer to repent, return and be revived.
Church Revival is not something that we can plan with a calendar. Church Revival is a God Event, Planned by God, Energized by the Holy Spirit, and Guided by the Word of Christ.
The Church at Sardis was no different than our churches today. They planned activities according to what everybody else was doing, instead of what God wanted them to be doing.
Jesus Send a message to Sardis, that remains relevant for us today. Jesus Gives us a prescription for revival, in Revelation 3:1–6. Read and pray.
Jesus Gives Us a Message of Revival
Jesus Gives Us a Message of Revival
Jesus Commands John to Write a message to the pastor of the church in Sardis. You can always expect Christ to send you a message that speaks to your particular environment.
In the 6th century BC, Sardis had been the capital of the Lydian Kingdom and one of the richest and among the most powerful cities. The cities in Asia minor had citizenship registers and Sardis housed the royal archives (Duvall, TTT, 67). Sardis was like our county seat, which houses the register of deeds office. If a person committed an act didn’t conform to Royal laws your name could be erased and you no had a record of citizenship. Likewise the Jewish synagogue’s had a registry. If you didn’t conform to the expectations of Judaism, your name could be removed from the rolls.
By the time of John’s letter to Sardis, she had fallen from her prestige. In AD 17, the city was devastated by an earthquake. Rome financed the rebuild, and they never could repay the debt. They were granted the privilege of building a temple for Artemis, their patron goddess, but like a lot of projects the temple was never completed.
Excavations reveal that a Jewish synagogue was built next to The temple of Artemis and that Jews probably held Roman citizenship, which was unusual. This explains how religious, cultural, and civil practices can easily become intertwined, until we accept humanity’s approval, rather than God’s.
We should expect any message from Jesus to be accompanied by a fresh vision of Himself to us.
Jesus, the who commands John to Write Holds all the power of revival in His two hands. Jesus holds the Holy Spirit in His left hand and the preacher in the Right hand. When Jesus Claps His hands together you better be ready for a message.
The Preacher gets the believer in the Bible and the Holy Spirit gets the Bible in the believer.
The seven-fold ministry of the Holy Spirit comes from
The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him,
The spirit of wisdom and understanding,
The spirit of counsel and strength,
The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
And He will delight in the fear of the Lord,
And He will not judge by what His eyes see,
Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;
But with righteousness He will judge the poor,
And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth;
And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.
Also righteousness will be the belt about His loins,
And faithfulness the belt about His waist.
The seven-fold character of the Holy Spirit reveals the complete quality of His ministry to God’s People:
He is the Spirit of the Lord,
of wisdom,
of understanding,
of counsel,
of strength,
of knowledge,
and of the fear of the Lord.
Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel saying, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts.
Revival is never by might or Power, but is the work of the holy spirit.
Jesus, while here on earth gave the apostle the practical application of the Holy Spirit in the life of he church. John 14–16 explains:
The Holy Spirit will abide with you forever.
The Holy Spirit will teach you all things.
The Holy Spirit will bring into remembrance all that Jesus said.
The Holy Spirit will convict the world of sin and judgment.
The Holy Spirit will guide you in all truth.
The Holy Spirit will disclose to you what is to come.
The Holy Spirit will glorify Jesus.
Revival is never by might or power, but by the Spirit of God.
The man of God prepares to deliver a message from God, but the Holy Spirit empowers the message, authenticates the message, and enables the believer to receive and act on the message.
Revival is a God Thing. Jesus Holds the the power of the message and messenger in His hands. When He combines tHe Holy Spirit and the preacher, THE PREACHER GETS THE BELIEVER IN THE BIBLE AND THE HOLY SPIRIT GETS THE BIBLE IN THE BELIEVER.
Because Jesus Controls the message and messenger, by the work of His Spirit, you can expect
Jesus Gives Us an Honest Evaluation of Our Need for Revival.
Jesus Gives Us an Honest Evaluation of Our Need for Revival.
Jesus Prescribes a Cure for Our Spiritual Deadness.
Jesus Prescribes a Cure for Our Spiritual Deadness.
Wake up! We should be in complete readiness to learn.
Strengthen the things that remain! We should be unchanging in belief and attitude toward God’s truth. At the beach, we easily drift down the coast, when not watching the shore.
Remember what you received and heard! We should recall the glory of the gospel and respond in an appropriate manner.
Keep it! we should cause ourselves to continue in the grace of gospel work.
Repent! We should be willing to change our way of life as a result of a complete change of thought and attitude, with regard to sin and righteousness.
At the beach, when drift down the coast, if we do not watch the shore.
Application: Lord’s supper and Baptism.
Jesus Promises Eternal 3 Benefits to the Few, who follow His Prescription for Revival.
Jesus Promises Eternal 3 Benefits to the Few, who follow His Prescription for Revival.
Jesus promises the remnant that they will walk in with him in purity and holiness.
The remnant have not soiled their clothes, and are worthy to walk with Jesus. Walking with Jesus means you are a witness to the life He gives those who repent and believe in Him.
You have been washed in the blood of Christ, you are being washed in the blood of Christ and you will be washed in the blood of Christ. This is call sanctification. You are being changed more and more from the likeness of you old sins more and more into the image of Christ. Each day you are less identified with the world culture and more identified as belonging to Christ.
The few who seek the Holy Spirit’s transforming work will receive 3 benefits.
You will be clothed in white—Jesus will keep you close and clean. You will be continually washed in the shed blood of the Son of God.
Your Name will not be removed from the Lambs Book of Life. You will not and cannot lose your citizenship in Heaven. You are a citizen will all the privileges of Heaven.
Jesus will Confess Your name before His Father and Before His Angels.
“Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.
“And I say to you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will confess him also before the angels of God;