Revelation 3:1

Revelation 3:1

Revelation 3:1 Write this to the angel of the Church in Sardis, "Thus says he who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your worth: you think you live but you are dead.

Write this to the angel of the Church in Sardis

                This letter also Jesus addressing to the elder of the church.

"Thus says he who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars:

                To this church Jesus interduced Himslef like this “who hold the seven spirits of God and the seven star.

Seven Spirit

                We already discussed about these seven spirit of God and seven stars. The seven spirit, we can explain in two ways, one is, 7 seven characteristics of Holy Spirit. This mentioned in Isaiah 11:2. But in bible there are many characteristics were described about the Holy Spirit. Secondly we know that the meaning of the number 7, it represents the completeness or fullness. So this 7 Spirit of the God means the fullness of Holy Spirit.

Seven Stars

                According to the Rev 1:20 we know that the seven stars mean the seven angles of churches. It includes all disciples and who was, who is and who is to, do the ministries to Jesus Christ.

Why Jesus introduce Himself like this to this church ?

                After introduction Jesus stating that to this church “I know your worth: you think you live but you are dead. ”

Out of all the churches mentioned in Revelation, I think (for me personally) that Sardis is perhaps the saddest story. Ephesus had left its first love, Laodicea was lukewarm, Thyatira and Pergamos struggled with false teachers, but Sardis is called a dead church.

This church doesn’t had a single word of praise for past actions Sardis is labeled as a dead church, i.e., " you think you live but you are dead ".

So there is a relation between the spirit and angles of church (angle of church means it includes the hole church). As we know the church means body of Christ. So Jesus mentioned to this church is living without spirit “you are dead”.

This spiritually dead condition of the professed Body of Christ also was addressed by the Epistle of James. "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also" (James 2:26).

Whenever the Saints depart from their walk of faith and holiness, it is right for them to be described as dead look. Jesus says in Matthew 23:27 beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean".