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Revelation 3:1-6 Check Your Pulse! 1. the Danger of Revelation 3:1-6 Check Your Pulse! 1. The danger of "flatline" 2. Power for resuscitation and restoration 7 Letters to the 7 Churches Sermon Series #5 January 9, 2010 To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. (NIV) If you watched the show ER (or probably any other TV medical drama), you know that at least once during every hour, someone pulled out those defibrillator paddles, placed them on someone’s chest, and cranked up the electricity. It’s not the sort of thing you normally do to someone, because it gives their body a tremendously powerful shock. But they say that desperate times call for desperate measures, and when someone is “flatlining” on the heart monitor, those are most assuredly desperate times. It is certainly not a time to worry about how the shock might cause someone to feel. In our text, Jesus pulls out the defibrillator paddles and places them on the chest of the church at Sardis. He says, “I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.” They hardly sound like the words of the gentle, loving Savior that we know. But this was not a time for being gentle. This was a time for shocking. These were desperate times, times for doing anything possible to save the patient. This was a time to wake up the Christians at Sardis and make them see what grave danger they were in. The Lord's message to the church at Sardis, to Christians of every age, is this: Check your pulse! 1. The danger of flatline Jesus begins by saying, “I know your deeds.” He had said the same thing to the churches at Ephesus and Thyatira—and then followed it up with commendation for their deeds. But not this time. While Jesus says that they had “a reputation of being alive”, it was unearned and undeserved. It’s possible that that reputation had been earned in the past . Perhaps things had gotten done, things happened, the congregation grew. Maybe they were the first of the seven churches of Revelation to become self-supporting. Maybe they had a good presence in the community. Maybe they had dynamic preaching and teaching, good Bible class attendance at a variety of Bible classes throughout the week. But regardless of what had happened in the past, Jesus says that here, now, in the present, they were dead. I believe that Peace congregation has a reputation for being alive. Such life was seen a few Sundays ago, when six adults were received into membership through adult confirmation. Another sign of life is energy. When we enter the building on a Sunday morning, most of us feel an energy here--in the way we are greeted, in the smiles on people’s faces, in the activity of children. Another sign of life is actions. Among the congregations in our circuit, Peace has a reputation for being a place of action--good church attendance, solid Bible class attendance, healthy offerings, a building that was entirely paid for shortly after it was built. By and large, we are the sort of people who know how to get things done and accomplished in our daily lives, and we know how to do the same in our congregational life. Is there room for improvement? Always. But in any congregation where there is this much activity, there can hardly be a danger of the opposite extreme, of “flatline”, can there? Even as individuals, the fact is that people often say to us how much they respect us, how much they admire the fact that we live a moral life, the fact that many of us are committed to drive at least 30 miles round-trip to church each Sunday, the fact that we’re so involved in teaching Bible stories to our children. People at work say it, our neighbors say it. We have a reputation for being alive. And we have that reputation because people can see so many outward things that would seem to indicate fantastic spiritual health. In any individual in whom there is that much activity, who is so obviously different than others in their strength of moral conviction, there can hardly be a danger of flatline, can there? There can. There was for the congregation at Sardis. While outwardly the patient appeared to be healthy, in shape, and full of youth and energy, Jesus saw that inside there was a cancer that was spreading so rapidly that there was practically no life left in the congregation. In fact, he said, “You are dead.” It’s interesting, isn’t it? Of the five congregations we’ve looked at so far, the congregation at Sardis is the first that was apparently not struggling with persecution or false teachings. And yet it is the one that Jesus accuses of being dead. If there was a danger of “flatline”, of spiritual death--and know that spiritual death is exactly what it sounds like--the loss of life, the loss of faith and the loss of eternal life in Heaven with Jesus--if there was a danger of “flatline”, of spiritual death for the capable, comfortable congregation at Sardis, there is certainly the danger of “flatline” for the capable, comfortable congregation and the capable, comfortable individuals at Cottonwood. The People’s Bible on Revelation says, “Self-satisfaction usually accompanies spiritual deadness.” Perhaps somewhere along the way the congregation at Sardis had begun to focus on and revel in their own press clippings, while losing the focus that had led to them. The same thing could certainly happen to us. The Devil isn’t choosy. He isn’t wedded to one particular means of soul-destruction. He doesn’t necessarily need for us to plummet into vile, front-page worthy sins. He’s plenty happy to let us slowly sink into a self-satisfied spiritual stupor in which our seemingly unchanging outward appearance blinds us to the fact that inwardly, our spiritual organs are shutting down. What, then, can we do? What can Peace congregation do to avoid having the outward form of godliness, but an empty, inner shell devoid of faith? How can we personally avoid the fate that’s worse than death? By doing what Jesus encouraged the congregation at Sardis to do. 2. Power for resuscitation and restoration He says, “Wake up!” Wake up?!?! What sort of a command is that?!? I don’t recall Doctor Mark Greene on ER ever saying to a patient who had died, “Wake up!” For that matter, I don’t recall him ever saying it to someone who was flatlining. How can a dead person wake up? But when the Lord of the universe says, “Wake up!” things happen, don’t they? Just ask Jairus. (Luke 8:40-56.) Ask the widow of Nain. (Luke 7:11-15) Ask the family of Lazarus. (John 11:1-44) Ask all of them what happened to their dead loved ones when Jesus said, “Wake up!” So when Jesus says, “Wake up”, things happen. They happen because of the power of his Word. And that is the same thing Jesus uses to wake us up. He says, “Remember what you have received and heard; obey it and repent.” He says that it really doesn’t start with you and me. He says that it doesn’t come from navel-gazing--thinking about ourselves and our lives and our works—which are never complete in the sight of God. If the Devil leads us to think that our salvation is in some way based on those things, then he’s really won. Waking up does not mean “remembering the good things we have said and done” nor does it mean “getting busy saying and doing good things”, but rather, Jesus says that it first comes from “remembering what we have received and heard.” Paul put it a little differently when he wrote to Timothy. He said, “As for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of...and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scripture which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.” (2 Timothy 3:14-15). “Waking up” then, is nothing more than tapping into the power of God’s Word. It’s nothing more than looking at Christ, who was revealed in that Word, remembering what we have heard about him, and then putting our trust in his perfect obedience to the law in our place, his innocent death to take away our sins, and his glorious resurrection to assure us that we need never die eternally.
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