Sardis: Dead orthodoxy

Audred Spriensma·2021-05-01

Spriensma provides an expository analysis of Revelation 3:1-6, the letter to the church of Sardis, exploring the historical context of the city and its spiritual significance as a warning against dead orthodoxy and spiritual complacency. The sermon emphasizes the need for watchfulness, repentance, and genuine spiritual vitality rather than mere external reputation and nominal Christianity. This resource offers practical exhortation grounded in careful biblical exegesis and Reformed interpretation of Scripture.

And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not...

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