Lessons From the Last Three Churches of Revelation 3

Last time I was here, we went to the book of Revelation. Let's go there again, if you don't mind, because it's time to finish the churches as we went into chapter 2, last time, and covered four churches, and talked about the attitudes and asked the questions of ourselves. Are we like this? Are we like the churches back in the day, since we know these were seven churches on a mail route in Turkey? Do we have to read this to give us guidance and direction? We looked at the four churches, first four, and today we'll go into chapter 3 and cover the last three churches, 22 verses we will cover today. I won't go in depth in many of them, except some that I think are important. As we look at the attitudes of God's people at that time, most likely down through the ages, and can probably readily say from my time in the ministry and almost 50 years in the church, they exist today. And the big question is, will they exist upon Christ's return, or those three and a half years before His return? So let's go, if you will, with me. I'll be reading from the New King James Version. And we'll go to chapter 3 and verse 1. The heading over my verses there, call this the Dead Church. Is that what yours says? Does anybody say any different? No? No other translation? Then it's dead. It's just rule, everybody agrees? She says it's dead. So let's look at this dead church, and you must ask yourself, am I dead? I'm dead? Spiritual growth? Are you dead? Your view of God and His church today? How do you view them? Let's look at this. Let's go in verse 1, and it says, the angel of the church of Insartis writes, These things says he who has seven spirits of God and the seven stars. Remember that from chapter 1. I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Do you think you're alive, but you're really spiritually dead? Do you think I know enough? I'm good.

I'm alive. I may not be well physically, maybe getting old. I may be sick. I may not have the energy I once had, but spiritually, I am so good.

What is this saying? It's saying they think they are something that they are not. So we used to say in sports, all show no go. They used to say in football, a player gets off the bus, and he's big and he's strong. He looks like Tarzan, but plays like Jane.

That's a professional, not my saying. I'm just saying what it says. But another one is, it's like lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig. Am I right? Have you seen that before? Somebody thinks they are really something. I used to raise pigs, but I never saw one with lipstick on. And if you knew their snout, which was basically... Yes, that would take a lot of lipstick. Yes, that's why you didn't.

But then it says something rather strange. It tells these members, yes, members, he says this saying to them that we're in the church then or in the church now, this attitude.

Mindset. Can I use mindset? Yeah, because that's kind of what we're talking about. It says, be watchful and strengthen the things which remain. That are what? Ready to die. What's ready to die?

Okay, they're quenching the spirit, right? Dale, what else is ready to die?

Let's go back. Look again. It says, be watchful. For what? Signs of the times. Watchful of your spiritual lives.

And strengthen the things which remain? What's good? You've all read about this Sardis church. Most of the time we say, well, I'm glad that's not me. Really? There are no weaknesses? There's nothing ready to die?

Things that make us go, hmm, same things that make God go, huh? Where are you?

Are you one of my churches?

Strengthen the things which remain and that are ready to die. Ooh, that means there's some areas in our lives that we think are okay. But God said, uh-uh, you're ready to die. Maybe it's your prayer life. Could be. We all could use a better prayer life, couldn't we? I don't think there's anybody who says, I'm great. What about a Bible study? Get some of that in. Or fasting. Can we just say, well, nothing wrong with my fasting that comes up in a couple of weeks? How about meditation? We're just meditating on God's Word. Is that dying? Or has it died already? These are questions that He lays out for us to answer. That's why this chapter is so relevant to perhaps us, wherever you are. Those are watching in on the webcast today. You have to ask yourself that question. Because it's all good. If you're willing to examine yourself, if you're willing to make changes, because we're about to see. Let's go on with the, uh, for I have not found your works perfect before God. Well, who's perfect? Didn't Christ say that we are to become perfect? It's a process? Are we even trying? Because here He just says, uh, it's works aren't perfect.

But they're not even close because they're dying. Hmm. Let's go to verse 3. Remember therefore, now you have received and heard. You know what He's saying? You have no excuse. I have no excuse because now you're looking at yourself, I'm telling you. You got it now. You have no excuse for saying, well, I didn't know. I didn't know I was in such bad shape. Don't we all say that when we go to the doctor? Sometimes. Look at my blood pressure. Well, uh, take it a second time. You ever do that? It's usually better. I go to CVS, I go to Walgreens, and they have that little thing you go in to check it, which I do a couple times a week if I'm by that way, just so I can see, you know, how stressed I am. Yesterday I went by and it was way too high, and I knew why. I was stressed over different things going on. So let's go on here and say you're received and heard. Hold fast and repent. Isn't this message all through the Bible? Hold fast to what you do good, what you do have, and repent of that which is not good. 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. Isn't that in Matthew 25, of those foolish virgins? Are we wise or foolish? Are we a little half and half? Are we willing to admit that we need to be a little wiser, a little less foolish? Repent. I think we all know that's what we should do when we pray. But when he says, if you will not watch, I will come upon you. Like a thief in the night. Seems like Christ talked about that a few times. He even talked about a strong man and someone breaking into his house, and he needs to be watching.

And you will not know what hour I will come upon you. Will you? Are we watching ourselves, and are we watching world events? We're seeing things happen. As a matter of fact, I just read yesterday that MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Frank saw stomping grounds. Did you teach there, Frank? You walked there. You walked those grounds. Well, that's one of the smartest engineering schools, technical schools, you can have in America. MIT. They put together a group of researchers, which they do quite often, except this one they wanted to know. They put all these facts and figures, and then all the analysis they could get into some computers. And then they all got together because it was about America. And they came up with all the graphs and charts, all the facts and figures, all brought it down to the collapse of the American economy. When there is no coming back, it will have to be, just like other nations that they looked at, when they would collapse, and then it'd have to be a complete rebuild, not just repair. They came to one date, 15 years from January, 2040. There is no way, according to their analysis, that this country can last, as it is now, past 2040. That's there. They don't have an agenda. They're not looking at this. They're not looking for Christ to return. They're not looking for it. It's just putting everything together.

Are we watching some of these things when people with degrees that have no dog in the hunt, if I can say that? They come up with, they say, this can't go on.

What if they're off by five or ten years?

That's scary. But then again, when you have eggheads like that, really smart people, they're never off, are they? What? But when they know it can't go on, we are the richest society that has ever lived in the history of mankind. You drove here today. We drove over a hundred miles to get here. No problem. Except for Julie, we all have air conditioning, as I heard. Pray about that. We have running water. We take baths. We go to a store. I went to two yesterday, and just went to the shelf and got what I needed. And I said, Clive can tell you from living in Jamaica that isn't always true, is it? Because I've gone there and it's like, you have choice of this or this or this. You don't have a choice of what brand. And that's a lot of the world.

Are we looking at this? And saying, I need to read this for me. At this time. In this world. Oh no, I think it's all going to be okay. We just, I've heard that ever since I was growing up. I heard that it'll be here. We'll never make the year 2000.

We made it, didn't we?

The economy. We just crossed 35 trillion dollars in debt. And they think it'll hit 36, possibly by January. Have you ever looked at that clock? It's out there. You can just type and go to Google. Type in the debt clock for the United States. It'll show you right then. And it'll show you these numbers going, ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch. You know, you're going, wow. Oh well, I remember when it was 13 trillion dollars. Now it's 35.

And we're going to pay a trillion dollars in interest on that debt this year. Besides running up another two or three trillion. It's, it's watch. But as much as what the world scene is, because I'm not here to scare you because we can't be scared. Because we know we're in all needs and we know who's in charge. We have a direct line up there. So I see people all freaking out in this and so forth and had people who went to a wedding this, this last Sunday. And performed a ceremony. Had people from different places come up. Oh, I've been watching your series on YouTube about revelation. Oh, I'm just so excited about it. You know, oh, I think we're just, and some of them were just actually scared. Oh, I need to find out more. Oh, it's been here all along.

No, we, that's the last thing we need to be is fearful. Because it's kind of like we got, we got the test before the test is given out. Or back in school, we used to call cheat sheets. Where you could have a thing that small and you could stick it in your.

She cuts my hair and then she takes me. I'm not Samson. I'm weak. But yeah, I had friends that would just do like that. And then there would go. Just look on my paper. I know the answer is right. But we get to look at. We got it. We got this. And that's what we need to. Look at it more and not wake up and go, Oh, God, is this going to be the day that. A meteor strikes. Well, no, that's the. Let's see. Six seal. Another 9-11. Except it's yeah, it's bigger. No, this is this is what he wants us. That mindset, the attitude of Sardis.

Do we just not need to do that? We don't need to do anything. Don't get your teeth fixed. Wouldn't that his thing back then? Oh, wait a minute. Don't don't really save any money. Don't invest because it's all going to end. This is live your life. You know, we have lives to live. Go live them. But watch. If you watch your spiritual life, you don't have to watch. As much out there. As we'll go through. Let's move on. I'm taking up too much time. Verse four. You have a few names, even in Sardis, who do not have, who have not defiled the garment. Isn't that interesting the word for you? That's not a lot. Is I like, well, you even have a few. That's his attitude. Hanging around.

Who have not defiled the garments. And they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy. Go over with me to Revelation 16. Revelation 16. Revelation 16 verse 15.

It says, Behold, I am coming as a thief. Just what he said earlier. Bless is he who watches and keeps his garments. Lest he walk naked and they see his shame. And then what does 16 say? And they gather them together to the place in Hebrew Armageddon. That's just before the big one comes.

So it's all tied in together here, and he wants us to think about it. Verse 5. He who, I hope I can have your participation in it. Hopefully I haven't spent. What does the word say? He who? What does that mean? Conquer. Very good. So I won't be saying overcome. I ask that you're help for conquer. Because hopefully we will. So if you have this artist's attitude. He who conquers shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the book of life. What's that mean?

I mean, he says, if he overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the book of life. So that's telling us that the others who are not, he's going to blot your name out.

You're done because it's a book of eternal life. Not just the book of life. Your name's going to be blotted out. If you're not in white. So it obviously tells me, I mean, I'm not jumping to conclusions when I say he says you have a few names.

That means there's going to be quite a few names. There's going to be a lot of names blotted out of the book of life.

You like yours in there? Our names are put in there. As a matter of fact, I gave a sermon last week in Murfreesboro, and it was about the book of life. Handwriting on the wall.

Your name is written in there once you're baptized. That's where your name is written in.

But it's not permanent ink because it can be blotted out. Or it can be taken away. So here we have an attitude. And what do you think those people, when this letter was delivered on this mail route, when they got to Sardis and they read this, and he goes, few, because typically the letters were written, were read by the elder in front of the entire congregation. Do you think everybody looked around each other and goes, that's him, that's her, that's not me?

Are you naive to think that didn't happen? Are you naive to think today it isn't happening? Well, this isn't talking about moi. It's talking about them.

Let's go down.

Because he says blot out his name from the book of life.

But if you've got those garments, if you are taking care of it, what do I say here? But I will confess his name before my father and before his angels. Imagine that. Get that. As I covered this morning in Fort Lauderdale, as we went through chapter 5, and it lists and numbered the angels at God's throne. Ten thousand times ten thousands and thousands of thousands, so it's at least 101 million angels gather around when God says, time, time to worship.

Your name? Imagine those people. The way it looks in Sardis, there's not too many names it's going to be called, is there? But imagine those that are called. I, but I, will confess his name before my father and before his angels. Christ knows exactly who you are. You ever think about that? Remember Job?

Job 1 and verse 6. As the sons of God, which was talking about angels at the time, came before God. You can read in Job 1 verse 6. And then Satan joins them.

And he said, have you considered my servant Job?

Have you considered my servant Anne? Have you considered my servant Diane?

How impressive is that? That your name would actually be called? Confessed? Should have seen the temptation that Christ, I mean that that that that Satan did this week. He really tried that. And you know what she did?

She didn't even let that test take place.

She just shot him down there, right then and there. She knew what it was. Imagine that.

Verse 6. He who has an ear, let him hear, the Spirit says to the churches.

Do we? You have ears. Do you hear? Do we hear what the attitude of Sardis is? Are we going to make sure that? We're not saying, here I am. I'm Sardis. I'm dead. Dead, dead, dead spiritually. Nobody's going to say that because they do not recognize that they're not watching and they're not repenting. Let's go. We have another church. One down. Two to go today. And verse 7. And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, these things he who says, he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one shuts and shuts and no one opens.

Talking about Christ is all these churches, too, doing this lead-in here. And so, in John 10, verse 7, Christ says, I am the door. You can't get anywhere, I am the door. You've got to go through me to get in the kingdom of God. You've got to go through me before you can really get to God. That's what he says.

Verse 8. To this church. I know you works. See, I've set before you an open door and no one can shut it for you. You have a little strength.

Have kept my word and have not denied my name. Indeed, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews and are not, but lie. Who says they're Jews, but they're not? Are the Jewish people? No.

What were the Jews consider themselves and what were they called? God's people. God's special people. We're special. It's all about us.

And you have people proclaiming to follow Christ as says, we're special. Oh, it doesn't matter what day you keep it up. Holy days I know we're just, we're special.

Think about it.

I will make them come and worship before your feet. And I know that I have, and to know that I have loved you. Because you have kept my command and to persevere means to endure, to persist, to pursue. I also will keep you from the hour of trial, which shall come upon the whole world. Get that? It's coming to the whole world. There's a trial coming to the entire world. To test those who dwell on the earth, to see who really wants to follow God, really wants to cry out and repent. We'll cover later as we go into Revelation some of those traits where it's going to get so bad when the heavenly signs happen that generals and leaders and presidents and everything else will go and, oh, fall on us and kill us. It's so bad. They don't want to endure it.

No? It's going to test the entire world. You get to see who really, really will call out to God. Verse 11, Behold, I come quickly. Hold fast what you have, that no one takes your crown.

You've been promised a crown. As a matter of fact, when you're baptized, your name's written in the book of life, the only thing yet to give you as a future king and priest is a crown. Crown of righteousness, because you will be righteous.

See that in scriptures we'll go through that. But think about that.

There's only two ways. Lose your crown. Someone takes it from you. Remember scripture? Let no one take your crown. Is there just a certain number of crowns out there? And when someone takes yours, they take your place. Don't know. Don't have the answer to that one, but it makes it interesting. Synopsis? Or how about you just give it away?

The crownless promise? Oh, it's not that important.

No, just okay. Oh, it's not that big a deal. Oh, I have a relationship with God. I don't have to come on a certain day. I don't have to. It's just like where I'm in the spiritual realm. I don't have to do a bunch of physical stuff anymore. Hm? Verse 12, He who conquers, I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of my God, the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem which comes down out of heaven from my God, and I will write on him my new name. You get a new name. God has a kind of pattern of that, doesn't He? He likes to change names of followers. Remember, Abraham became Abraham. Remember, Jacob became... yes, and he had others. So don't get too attached to your name. He's changing it. You might go, Oh, that was the guy who used to be called Frank. But you'd be given a holy name, as there will be, as it says, a new language. You'll hear about, hopefully, at the Feast of Tabernacles. There's a whole new language coming, and it's not Hebrew. Hebrew isn't perfect.

A new name. Verse 13, He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. So, he doesn't have anything really bad to say about Philadelphia, does he? I mean, you read the seven churches, there's something he has against all of them, except really, he's kind of complimentary of Philadelphia.

Is there anything? Did I miss something? No? It's amazing how many churches want to say, We're Philadelphia. We're Philadelphia, and no one else is. You can't come to our church.

It happens. Churches in the past, oh, we're Philadelphia. We have the spirit of Philadelphia.

But you know what I've seen over my time? The fault with being Philadelphia. Self-righteousness. It's an attitude, as we're talking about attitudes. Because didn't the Pharisees think they were all right? You know, oh, they even said, I twice fast a week. How many people face fast twice a week? Anybody here? Fast twice a week, and it has to be Tuesday, and it had to be Thursday. I mean, they said it. Then you're not very righteous, just like Christ. They looked at Him. You didn't do what we said. See how dangerous it is to have this attitude, this state of mind, that you think, I'm Philadelphia. I'm good. I am so good. No. It's dangerous. It's great to have that, but then you have the other side of it that takes you down another road of self-righteousness. So let's finish this up with the last. The last church of the seven. And to the angel of the church of Laodicea. Right. These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God. I know your works that you are neither hot nor cold. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are... hmm... lukewarm. Do we get the point? It says you. You know why they're lukewarm? Does anybody know? They have chosen to be lukewarm. You just don't get up. God calls you, gives you His Spirit, and then you're just one day, oh well, I'm cold. Ah, I'm hot. No. God gives you His Spirit to be hot, to be hot for Him, to be excited. And yes, that gets beaten down over time and years, but that's why He has the Holy Days. Pick us back up. That's why we have the Sabbath every week to realize we're not a bunch of freaks, cults out here just trying to strum up, how lovely are Thy dwellings. No. We're here. But what happens? You can become lukewarm. You're not really cold. You're not cold against God, but you're not hot either. You're just, how do we say this? Comfortable. I'm here, okay? I read the Bible. I pray. I'm comfortable. So don't make me uncomfortable, you hot people. Let's go on. So then, because you are lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth. My margin says vomit. That's not a pretty picture, is it? You sanitized that a lot better than I would have. Because we've all spit something out of our mouth. Oh, that's not good.

Tastes like a Brussels sprout. Not good. We spit it out. We take it out. But then there are times, and this is what this picture is in the Greek. That's why the margin said vomit. Have you ever had food poisoning? Yes. Oh, you don't have a choice of spewing. Of spitting. It just, it just comes. You're just like, oh, what is that? And then you're, oh. Mary remembers going to a wedding back in Tennessee, a friend of ours. I went to a wedding. Well, it was cold. It was snowy. It was snow on the ground. I said, weren't sure they were going to have the wedding. And so we said, well, you know, we're going to go. It was like a Saturday night, wasn't it, Mary? Our Sunday night, whatever. And we took her car. And I said, well, let's stop and get something to eat. Well, it was snow. There was hardly any place open. But we found this restaurant, and I won't say the name. But it was the only thing open, and the only thing they had was a food bar. And I think that food bar had been up for quite a while. And so we're eating off of it. And then I get back, and we finally, I think she said, I just can't eat this. But her husband said, I think I can. So what happened? We went to the wedding, had a nice time, and about three hours after eating, four hours, we were ready to head home. In the car, it was cold. And I said, just not feeling well. Got in her car, which she kept immaculate. I put my hands on the wheel, and I could not contain it. All over the windshield, all over the car.

I was so sick the next day that I couldn't clean it up. At least I said I was. No, I really was. I really was. God is making it so crystal clear here that He does not want you to be lukewarm. Because you can see from the other churches in the past, some of them were. That He's not going to entertain it. Well, wait a minute. I can be in the church. I can worship God, but I don't have to really 100% commit. I can just, let's just say I get one and a half feet in the church. That'll be good. Because I feel good because I'm not odd, I'm not strange to the world, and I don't have to defend.

Do you really want God vomiting you out of His mouth?

Verse 17, because you say, I am rich and have become wealthy and need of nothing, and do not know that you are, I'm rich and have become and have no need of nothing.

We may not say it, but we sometimes think it, don't we? The interesting part of the Church of Laodicea in 90 AD was that they were a very rich church. They were very wealthy as a city. So wealthy that when there was a, we call it a earthquake, and it destroyed a big part of the city.

You know what happened? Rome was going to come in and rebuild it, and they said, no, we've got enough money, we'll do it ourselves. They didn't need anyone. And the reason they were called by the Laodicea was that the water that came down that fed the city was not cold. It was kind of lukewarm.

And so it really wasn't fit to drink, so they actually had to pump and build because they had so much money. Find these streams and pump them. I forget what it was. Eight to nine miles of fresh flow of water into the city so they could have cool water because it's hot there. But in the city itself, they had plenty of water. It was all just lukewarm. But he's talking about the spiritual attitudes of this church. And so here, he reflects here about the spiritual attitude of the Laodiceans.

And if this is the last days, we have to be sure that we are not Laodiceans. But that's interesting because this nation, this country, the state, and this church, we as a people individually are the richest Christians who have ever lived. You ever thought about that? You are the richest Christians who have ever lived down through the eras. For thousands of years, it's been a struggle. Just people would spend virtually their entire day just coming up with food to eat.

How long does it take you to go shopping today? Of course, you have to earn that money, right? So it's not just a given. And in verse 17, it says, because you say, I am rich, I have become wealthy and have need of nothing.

Do you not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked? So God is telling this church that, oh, we've got everything. Oh, we're fine. Don't you know spiritually that you're wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked? How about you spiritually? Well, what if you are Laodicean? Or what if we all, we all have a little bit of this, and that's where we're a little lukewarm. Some days I just get up.

I don't feel like, man, I need to study this. And I'm just kind of like, well, let me do that later. So instead of doing it in the morning, I'll put it off. And then what happens later on? Oh, I better do it just before I go to bed. So it's just like the short time thing. I don't think I'm the only one. Right? Not the only one that's wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked, am I? And that's good that we see it. It's those that do not see it that think everything's fine.

Because it says in verse 18, he says, I counsel you to buy from me gold, refined in the fire that you may be rich. What is that gold? The actual Greek word means, I recommend or I give you advice to buy from me gold. This is from God. The most valuable thing in the world is what? Everybody thinks it's gold. Well, Pladeum and all these other... The most valuable thing on earth, the most precious as it says, more precious than silver and gold, are the words in this Bible. They're the words that can change our attitudes. They can change our lives.

They can change your destiny. It changes your eternity. If you will just use it. He said, I counsel you to buy from me gold, refined in the fire that you may be rich, and white garments that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed. And anoint your eyes with eyesab that you may see.

We need some spiritual visine, don't we? How about you? You need some? I don't know you, but I've had to use visine a couple of times where things... Boy, it sure does. Man, it works like that. For most of us, well, our eyes are burning or whatever. I put that in and, oh, man! But then you forget you even had an eye problem. How about some spiritual visine? Isn't it time we go and ask God for some of this to take this film, to take these blinders off of me, off my eyes, spiritually, so I can see what He wants me to be and be what I know He requires me to be.

Verse 19, As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Then He says, therefore be zealous and repent. Repent of what? Do you know? He says, be zealous and repent. It's easy. He's telling you to repent of not being zealous. So He's saying, repent and be zealous for Him, for this way of life. In verse 20, it says, Behold, I stand at the door and...

Right? I stand at the door. Do you ever get irritated with somebody who stands at your door when they will knock and just...

Okay! I'm gonna go open it.

But what if it's somebody you want to see? You run to the door, right? Jesus Christ said, I am standing at the door! I'm knocking!

And if anyone hears my voice, you heard His voice lately? Have you heard Jesus Christ's voice? And I'm very serious about this. If you have not heard His voice, you better question your spiritual life.

You need to hear His voice. He speaks through His Holy Spirit. Do you ask?

Knock at the door. Have you had those things where something comes to your mind and you know? But, ah, I just wait on that. Maybe you even have where there's a scripture that pops in your head. There's a story of the Bible that pops in your head while you're driving. And you go, you know, I need to look at that. Then you go home and, oh yeah, what was that? Oh, wasn't it? Oh, yeah, it was...

We need to listen. You need to listen for the knock. That's why we're here. He wants to speak to you. He wants you to do these things. Used to be this old saying when I was growing up is, Ding dong, Avon's calling. You remember that? Ding dong, Avon's calling. Is they... are they even in business anymore? They are. Well, guess what, brother? Ding dong! Jesus Christ is calling. Are we going to answer? No, we go. He just wait outside. He'll wait till I need him. He'll wait till I really need him. Then I'll answer the door. Where are we? As a church. And it says, He who overcomes, are we, brethren? Are we overcoming? And you remember, if nothing else, you get from this message. What did overcome mean? Conquer! Conquer! It's time we conquer our spiritual lives and not just be driven over here and driven over here. I'll get to Bible study when I need to. That's how important it is. And He says, If you do, you will sit with Me for eternity. He who has an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. How powerful.

The three mindsets. Are you guilty of any of them? Yes, even guilty of Philadelphia, which is good. But do we take it too far? Do we take it to where we're self-righteous?

These three mindsets, they tell us, they instruct us. And as we look from where we've been in Chapter 2 and Chapter 3, we have seven mindsets of Revelation. Have. We changed our view of them. Have we gone back and recaptured some of the things that we have heard before, but we didn't really think about it? It is a time to think about it. It is a time to repent, to overcome, to conquer, as He says, conquer these things so that we will be with Him forever and ever and ever. So let us see if we can see ourselves the way God sees us. No matter the attitude, no matter the church time, no matter where you're at, because for some of you here, I can include myself in it. I could very well die before Jesus Christ returns. Every year I have someone die that I don't think a member of the church is going to die.

Will I be ready? Will I be able to look at these churches, look at the attitudes, look at the mindset, and tell God, I'm ready no matter what happens. Let Thy Kingdom come.