{"id":627,"date":"2017-10-17T04:26:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T12:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2017-10-17T04:26:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T12:26:28","slug":"devotion-revelation-31-6-letters-to-the-seven-churches-sardis-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Devotion\u00a0\u00a0 Revelation 3:1-6\u00a0\u00a0 Letters To The Seven Churches, Sardis Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revelation 3:1-6 <\/strong>–\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cTo the angel\u00a0of the church in Sardis\u00a0write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.\u00a0I know your deeds;\u00a0you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.\u00a02\u00a0Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God.3\u00a0Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent.\u00a0But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief,\u00a0and you will not know at what time I will come to you.\u00a0 4\u00a0Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes.\u00a0They will walk with me, dressed in white,\u00a0for they are worthy.\u00a05\u00a0The one who is victorious\u00a0will, like them, be dressed in white.\u00a0I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life,\u00a0but will acknowledge that name before my Father\u00a0and his angels.\u00a06\u00a0Whoever has ears, let them hear\u00a0what the Spirit says to the churches.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes.\u00a0They will walk with me, dressed in white,\u00a0for they are worthy.<\/span>\u201d\u00a0 The Lord now returns to the remmant who have not soiled their clothes.\u00a0 When things look their bleakest the Lord has some who remain faithful. Noah and his family were a small remnant that remained faithful (Genesis 7:1<\/strong>).\u00a0 God used Joseph to preserve for Himself a remnant (Genesis 45:7, 50:20<\/strong>).\u00a0 2 Kings 17:17 <\/strong>shows the preservation of the tribe of Judah.\u00a0 Simeon was a faithful remnant who devoutly was looking for the Messiah to be born (Luke 2:25<\/strong>).\u00a0 God declared that even during New Testament times a remnant of Israel was saved (Romans 9:27<\/strong>).\u00a0 God always has His remnant.\u00a0 Though the world is always resisting and pushing away from God, Family, we cling to Him who first clung to us, we are God\u2019s remnant.<\/p>\n

God\u2019s remnant seeks Him.\u00a0 They pursue Him.\u00a0 In New Testament times we follow Jesus who continually purifies us from the world (1 John 1:9<\/strong>).\u00a0 God has always called to the world and there has always a remnant of people who cling to Him.\u00a0 Though, compared to the numbers of the world, are number is small (Matthew 7:14<\/strong>), we are those whose resist the things of the world and who cling to the Lord.\u00a0 We may not seem like many, but we know and have the Truth.\u00a0 We are God\u2019s remnant, watched over and kept by God Himself.\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n

Here we should not view \u201cfor they are worthy<\/span>\u201d as if we have merited our clean clothes, as if we have earned them, but rather that we have been washed clean by the blood of Jesus and we remain in love with, and faithful to, our Lord Jesus. He keeps us clean and our \u201cclothes\u201d are only white because of Him (John 1:7, Isaiah 1:18, Psalm 51:7, Hebrews 10:22<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one who is victorious\u00a0will, like them, be dressed in white.\u00a0I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life,\u00a0but will acknowledge that name before my Father\u00a0and his angels<\/span>.\u201d\u00a0 Praise God that Jesus has here declared that He will never blot out from the book of life one who is victorious through Him.\u00a0 From Revelation 13:8<\/strong> we read that only those who belong to Jesus are in His book of life.\u00a0 Remembering that Jesus is not speaking to the unfaithful, the non-victorious, but to those who have remained faithful.\u00a0 He states that these who have the victory through Him, and who have remained faithful, will never have their names blotted from His book of life.\u00a0 Jesus will happily proclaim to the Father that we are His.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n

Again let us remember that God is not frivolous in His words.\u00a0 Why would the Lord bring up something that is impossible?\u00a0 The Lord says what He means and means what He says.\u00a0 If the Lord says He will not do it for some, then He means it is also possible for Him to do it.\u00a0 Why would He say that He will not do what He could not do to those who do not finish their race (V2<\/strong>).\u00a0 He has here said that He will not do to the victorious what He will do to those who do not wake up.\u00a0 V13:8<\/strong> shows that only those who have belonged to the Lamb of God are written in the book of life.\u00a0 In this letter He warns those who once had life and are now becoming dead.\u00a0 Read the meaning.\u00a0 It is clear. But Family, we are not such people.\u00a0 We walk in confidence because God is faithful and never lies.\u00a0 He said He will never leave us or forsake us and so we cling to Him who, and most importantly, clings tightly to us.\u00a0 Who shall separate us from the love of God?\u00a0 No other person, no other thing, no other being can do that.\u00a0 He loves us eternally, praise God!<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoever has ears, let them hear\u00a0what the Spirit says to the churches<\/span>.\u201d\u00a0 Jesus, again, makes it clear that He is addressing all believers and we all should heed. We who shall be found with clothing that is washed pure by the blood of Jesus.\u00a0 We shall be victorious because it is He who assures it.\u00a0 We continue to love Him who first loved us.\u00a0 Evermore shall we be found with Him.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/strong>\u00a0– But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Revelation 3:1-6 –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cTo the angel\u00a0of the church in Sardis\u00a0write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.\u00a0I know your deeds;\u00a0you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.\u00a02\u00a0Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[1865,104,103,100,2148,106,101,94,17,711,10],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-genesis","tag-hebrews","tag-isaiah","tag-john","tag-kings","tag-luke","tag-matthew","tag-micah","tag-psalm","tag-revelation","tag-romans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}