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Sunday 23 March 2014

'APPEARANCES'

Rev. Canon George Sinclair
by Rev. Canon George Sinclair                           
 Pastor of the Church of the Messiah, Ottawa, ON.
 www.messiahchurch.ca 

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(Podcast of CFRA broadcast on Sunday, March 23rd,  2014)
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Broadcast Notes:
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Appearances?’ 

It is an honour to be able to open the Bible with you and talk about Jesus.  Please pray for me and for all who will hear this talk. 

Please take a moment to get your Bible. I will be reading from the English Standard Version. My talk today is a shortened version of a sermon that I did at my church. It was part of a series of sermons in which I preach through the Book of Revelation. The series is entitled, "Following the Lamb in the dying days of the dragon."

Please read Revelation 3:1-6.

Revelation 3:1-6  (English Standard Version)  (ESV)

To the Church in Sardis

3 “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.
“‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’


1. The people's and the church's concern with reputation and appearances was killing it.

2. When we live to deceive, we also deceive ourselves.

3. The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit speak to us as "one" with words everyone can understand and act on.

4. Will the world form us or will the Word form us?

5. The same word that convicts of sin is the word that saves.

That’s why I said that the Bible isn’t written to stop a conversation, but to start a conversation: and honest conversation with God.

That God, who knows every single thing there is to know about me, every single thing there is to know about you; still, He loves us, still He loves you, and would willingly send his Son to die upon the Cross, so that we could be reconciled with the Father.

Friend, if you have not yet done it, there is no greater thing that you can do than, to right now, just turn to Jesus and ask Him to be your Saviour and Lord.

And for the rest of us who have already made such a decision, pray that God would make you a disciple, gripped by the Gospel to bring glory to God.

Let’s pray:

Father, Draw us to yourself. Draw people who are far from you to yourself. People who hear this, may they come to a saving faith in Jesus.
Those who already know Jesus, may they be gripped by the Gospel and live to bring you glory.


Rev. Canon George Sinclair
Church of the Messiah
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