BECOMING A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS- Sardis // Sunday, September 18, 2022 // Pastor Jeff Hines
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Sunday — September 18, 2022
Becoming A Light in the Darkness
Today: Being A Disciple
Matthew 4: 19 (ESV)
“Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
We think disciples are students…
…People who want to know everything the teacher knows.
Disciples want to be what the Rabbi is!
Rabbi’s Prepared their Disciples…
Passionate Commitment to Do God’s will…
From Caesarea Philippi Jesus and the Disciples would travel to Jerusalem…
After His resurrection…
Matthew 28: 19 – 20 (NLT)
19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
1. Asia Minor
2. Grotto of Pan
3. “Gates of Hell”
4. Depiction of Sardis
5. Dye Vat
6. Kabbalah
7. Temple to Artemis
8. Overhead View
9. Church Ruins
Revelation 3: 1 – 6 (ESV)
“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.’