Many churches, and therefore the spiritual lives of many individuals, have not been founded upon the truth revealed by the Spirit of God. That is not to say that their foundations are void of the truth or of that which has been revealed by the Spirit of God, but it is not complete or secured in Christ. It all starts with one big lie and a faulty and cracked foundation stone. when a person begins their spiritual journey with a lie, it is no wonder that years later they are left with nothing but a stack of lies. Having built their security on a lie, the Sardisians ignored the Substitution Principle: His wisdom for ours, His ways for ours, His deeds for ours, His love for ours, His truth for ours, He security for ours, His provision for ours.
We should always be aware of the reality that we love delusion. We love to clothe ourselves in the delusion of goodness. Therefore, as the Spirit instructed, we should test ourselves to see if we are in the faith—to see if we live in abject neediness for Jesus, living like little children, doing only what our Father wants us to do, and nothing more (despite what the religious culture, our conscience, or our own church folk may demand of us) and then doing such things only when He tells us to do His works.
