REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Eleven - Is Your Name in the Book of Life? - Continue

 The elders in Sardis need to remember the joy they first had when they learned the truth and the blessings they received.  But  now they are dead as to spiritual activity.  Their congregational lamp is flickering because of lack of works of faith. Years before the apostle Paul wrote to the congregations in Asia ( likely including Sardis) to build appreciation for the glorious good news that Christians has accepted and that had been declared "with holy spirit sent forth from heaven"-as represented by the seven spirits of John's vision.  Peter also reminded those Asian Christians that they  belonged to 'a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,  a people for special possession, that they should declare abroad the excellencies of the one that called them out  of darkness into his wonderful light.' (1 Peter 1:12, 25, 29) Meditating on such spiritual truths will help the congregation in Sardis to repent and "strengthen the things remaining." - Compare  2 PETER 3:9.

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