Church Of The Lost Sheep

"I don’t think, friends, that I need to deal with the question of when all this is going to happen. You know as well as I that the day of the Master’s coming can’t be posted on our calendars. He won’t call ahead and make an appointment any more than a burglar would. About the time everybody’s walking around complacently, congratulating each other—“We’ve sure got it made! Now we can take it easy!”—suddenly everything will fall apart. It’s going to come as suddenly and inescapably as birth pangs to a pregnant woman. But friends, you’re not in the dark, so how could you be taken off guard by any of this? You’re sons of Light, daughters of Day. We live under wide open skies and know where we stand. So let’s not sleepwalk through life like those others. Let’s keep our eyes open and be smart. People sleep at night and get drunk at night. But not us! Since we’re creatures of Day, let’s act like it. Walk out into the daylight sober, dressed up in faith, love, and the hope of salvation.&q

" I know your deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead. Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God." Written by the Apostle John, 1st century Revelation 3:1-2 [35th message of the New Believer Series ] In the two preceding messages of this series, we already read what the Lord said to two churches mentioned in the Book of Revelation (as revealed to and written by the Apostle John). In this excerpt above, John is writing what the Lord is feeling about the believers in the first church in Sardis (like the ones from the previous messages, this was a church back in the 1st century, in a place now located in modern day Turkey). [These messages have now quickly become a mini series of "I Know Your Deeds" and "The Seven Churches of Revelation"] The passage above i s a warning to some believers (both the new and not so new) in that church. And that is to no