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Praise the Lord wouldn't tremendous singing thankful for the Cross of Christ.

Amen.

Where would we be today?

Without the cross of Jesus Christ.

Love you have your Bibles.

Please.

Take your mom's One turns Revelation.

Chapter number three As We are continuing our series, looking at the letters from Jesus.

These are literal letters that Jesus wrote to literal churches in the Apostle.

John's last day.

He received this Revelation while he was alone on the Isle of Patmos.

They could not kill John.

They tried to burn him in boiling hot oil.

Tradition tells us history tells us but he did not die.

And so the only thing that they found that they could do to get rid of this old, Apostle of Christ, was to isolate him on the Isle of Patmos, but even their God, used him tremendously, gave him this revelation of Jesus Christ.

And a lot of times we look at the Book of Revelation and we think that this was only written to a generation that was to come in the far-off distant future, but in Revelation 1:4, we found it.

This entirety of This Book of this, revelation of Jesus Christ was written to originally to the seven churches in Asia Minor.

And so it's not just a a a prophecy of those things to come.

It was written primarily to the ones who received it there in those churches in Asia Minor.

Revelation chapter number 3 will looking at.

Are fifth Church of the seven letters that Jesus wrote and it says into the angel of the church in Sardis.

Write these things says, he who has the seven spirits of God, and the Seven Stars.

I know your works that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead Be watchful or be alert.

Be awake and strengthen the things which remain that are ready to die for.

I have not found your works.

Perfect before God.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard.

Holdfast and repent.

Therefore, if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.

You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white for they are worthy.

He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from The Book of Life, but I will confess his name before my father and before his angels.

And that he says, in every letter, he who has an ear.

Let him hear what the spirit says, to the churches.

I want to speak to you this morning on this stock, Sardis the dead Church.

Let's pray Our Father.

We come before you, Lord and humility.

We come before you Lord, as those who are hungry.

And in need of your sustenance in need of your word to feed us.

Your father, I pray that we would do that today as we consider this particular letter to this church.

Father.

I pray that that we would apply these truths.

To our hearts individually.

And that we would apply these cruise to our church, collectively and corporately.

I pray Lord that you would convict.

I pray.

Father that you would draw those who are lost your son, Jesus Christ.

Who has offered himself up?

As the propitiation of your wrath towards them.

Jesus is the satisfaction of your ass.

Has he took upon himself?

Your wrath that we should have deserved.

I pray Lord that those who are lost with come to know your son Jesus today.

We ask all these things in Christ, name and all of God's people said, amen.

We know today through the advancements of Technology.

Of the the vast distance to tremendous distance between stars and planets.

And we know that because of this of this great vastness that is really beyond our comprehension to really understand how far a star is from the SAR planet Earth.

The nearest stars to us are trillions of miles away.

We cannot fathom that.

And so, those large distances have Force astronomers to come up with an appropriate measurement unit.

Called light years.

One light year equals the distance that light travels traveling at 186,000 miles per second.

Not per hour per second.

And so it's the distance of light that travels more than 186 miles per second travels in one year's time span, which is some 6 trillion miles in one year like and travel up to 6 trillion miles enormous distance to even the nearest Stars presents a very interesting possibility.

And that is, if a star that is 30 light years away.

If somehow that star exploded in died 5 years ago, we would not even be able to tell by looking at it for another.

25 years.

Is that amazing?

Even though the star is no longer in existence, the light from that star would go on Shining as if nothing had changed.

Well, that illustration perfectly sums up the situation in many churches.

They will still shine.

They still shine with the reflected light from a bright pass.

But in reality, they have already died.

Such was the church at Sardis.

This fifth letter of the total 7 letters.

This church of Sardis, had a name that it was alive.

But in reality, they were dead.

And this letter, as with every letter is a warning for any church.

Any charts, no matter how glorious it's past, maybe could become like the Church of Sardis.

Now, before we get into the message this morning, I want to spend just a few moments looking at the city of Sardis itself, because there is an amazing parallel between the church at Sardis and the history of the city of Sardis.

Several hundred years before Christ wrote this letter to the Apostle or to this before Christ.

Wrote this letter to the Church of Sardis, Sardis was the capital city at one time of the kingdom of Lydia.

Sardis was the capital of the lydian Kingdom which was at the Pinnacle of its Kingdom.

It took up.

Most of Asia, Minor took up most of modern-day turkey, but this Kingdom Olivia Kingdom got started in around 1200 BC and it ended around 546 BC.

I start as had been one of the greatest and wealthiest capital cities in the wealthiest Kingdom of the world at that one time.

As a matter of fact, the first gold coins in the first silver coins were printed and circulated out of the city of Sardis Sardis reached its Pinnacle during the years of King croesus.

My Sardis, reach its Zenith under creases.

It also fell under croesus.

Creases says many emperors.

Once they build a big Empire want to continue to expand that Empire.

We see that even today don't lie with Putin in Russia.

They're never satisfied with what they have.

They want more and that was normally the destruction of great Empires because it was spread themselves.

So thin, they could not defend what they had.

And so croesus.

Thought that he was going to invade Persia and kongkrit.

And so he did that.

He he invaded Persia.

He was wanting to defeat, Cyrus the Great, the king there but if you know the story, he did not defeat Persia.

There was a great battle called The Battle of Sion.