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| Rev. Canon George Sinclair |
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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. 2 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. 3 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. 4 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. 5 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. 6 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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