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1.Read Revelation 3:3.

2.What does Christ advise the Sardis-type church to do?

Christ advises a Sardis-type, human-oriented church to "remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent." He tells the members to go back to the fire in which their church was born, and to the faith in God and holy living that were passed on to them by their founders.

3.Are we to go back and imitate what the Holy Spirit did in the past?

No.

4.What are we to return to?

To prayer, to holy living, to the preaching and teaching of the Scriptures rather than the traditions of men, to reliance on the Person of Christ and the anointing of the Holy Spirit of God instead of on the ideas and ambitions of human beings.

5.What was true at one time of each of the large denominations of today?

It was a godly remnant.

6.Was this true of the Baptists? The Methodists? The Protestant Reformers?

Yes.

7.What was true of the Pentecostal people in time past?

The Pentecostal people were a remnant, a small group of radicals who emerged from the evangelical churches.

8.What is true today of the large denominations?

They are large, active, well-financed denominations of Christian people who command respect from the world.

9.Why do Holy Spirit-empowered remnants change into animated corpses?

Because of the self-will of Christian people. The believers follow their own desires instead of waiting of the Lord for His direction. They are not willing to be crucified to their adamic impulses.

10.What does the Lord Jesus always have in the earth?

His remnant—the seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal. He has them today.

11.How can we be certain we ourselves are part of the Lord’s remnant, part of His conquering army?

Are we proceeding onward with a program of human-oriented activity?

Are we building the Kingdom of God by the wisdom and efforts of flesh and blood? Or are we watching faithfully in prayer, waiting on the Lord always for every detail of what we are and do?

12.What will happen to a member of the Sardis-type assembling if he or she does not return to prayer and holy living?

The Lord Jesus will come upon him or her as a thief. One moment he will be a fine show on the earth. The next moment he will be naked and destitute. He will be caught by surprise because he has not been watching carefully in prayer for the Presence and blessing of Christ.

13.What is one difference between the works of religious people and the works of Christ?

The works of people, even religious people, are as grass that springs up in a moment and perishes in a moment. The works of Christ are eternal. They never shall pass away.

14.What should we do if we have been caught up in Sardis-type activities?

We are to "hold fast, and repent." We are to press steadily forward in all good works but to repent of our employment of human talent in the attempted building of the Kingdom of God.

15.What was true of the assembling in Sardis?

There was a remnant in Sardis. There were believers who looked only to the Holy Spirit for the building of the Kingdom of God.