In this week’s study, I continue in Chapter 3, verse 2, with the Church of Sardis
I really emphasize and go into a rant there in verse 2 on the “watch and strengthen” and what it means to us Christians especially in these last days.
Wake Up! This warning is given many places in Scripture. We need to wake up, be alert, and do not drift off to sleep as the Day of the Lord approaches.
Ro 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
1Th 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Mt 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Re 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessedis he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Mt. 25:10-13 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Notice that here it does not say “I never knew you” like it does in the passage about some false miracle workers. It says “I don’t know you”. The virgins once had oil (el-ah-yon) in their lamps but had let it run out. They were no longer looking for the coming of the Messiah, nor were they prepared. They had lost their faith. After it was too late they went running but it is clear that the Lord expects to find us faithful when He returns. However, when He returns He has said that there will be very few He will find with faith. Many will turn away from the faith, there will be many unsaved, there will be a small flock, a remnant.
My intention is to take this study to a deep level. Deeper than most of you are used to! I am asking no one to agree with me; however I do ask that you check every detail that I present out for yourself.
May we be able to say with Paul: 2Ti 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
3 Remember What You Have Received And Heard. We have received the message of the gospel and the teachings of the Messiah and the Apostles and we are to remember and hold on to them.
Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
We have the great and wondrous gospel message and teachings that have been entrusted to us. We must contend for them in the face of the world, and against false teachers. However, if we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received and heard the gospel, we make the sacrifice of Yahshua Messiah of no value for us.
Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Don’t end up like those in Hosea 4:6 ‘My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God (Elohim), I will also forget thy children.’
But, be like those in 2Timothy 2:15 ‘Study to shew thyself approved unto God (Yahweh), a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.’
Join me as we go Chapter by Chapter, Verse by Verse, Unraveling the Words of Yahweh!
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