1. Revelation 3:2–3 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What are the five calls to action that Christ gives the church in Sardis?

Revelation 3:2–3 (ESV)

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.

Christ Jesus gave his dead church five instructions. Two are recorded in Revelation 3:2: “wake up” and “strengthen”; three more are found in Revelation 3:3: “remember,” “keep,” and “repent.”

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