Rev 3: 2Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God.
This was the word that God gave to the Church at Sardis
through John the apostle. The Church at Sardis was a powerful spirit filled
Church that had been doing great works for the Lord, in fact God said to them
that they had indeed had a reputation of being alive, but now they have gone
cold spiritually and are dead in the works of God. In fact they have lost their
first love for God and the Holy Spirit is no longer in their midst.
There was a lot of spiritual fatigue and lethargy has crept into
the Church. They have fallen into the routine and playing Church. They had no
longer the zeal to do outreach and to to operate in the power of the Holy
Spirit.
They have fallen into programs that are routine and mundane
and they have lost the cutting edge of the Spirit. They have lost the use of
the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The people
are now spiritually dry and no longer spiritually alert or awake. Their spiritual
senses are dull and they cannot sense the presence of the Holy Spirit and have
lost their fellowship with them.
The call here is for the people of God to once again seek the
empowering of the Holy Spirit and to watch and pray so that they would not fall
into temptation.
They are encouraged to be alert and sober in their mind and
be aware of the snares of the enemy who wants to trick and destroy us. In fact
Jesus once said that the enemy is like a prowling lion going to and fro seeking
for someone to devour. These are the luke warm and back slide Christians. They
have lost their dedication and commitment to God and they have been ensnared by
the lure of the world and are entrapped in the things that the enemy can offer
them.
These are the things that appeal to the flesh like positons
and power. Pleasures that cater to both the mind and the flesh. When the
believers are overtaken by all the distractions that the world can give, they
will soon be drifted and drawn away from God.
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