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1.Read Revelation 3:4.

2.Into what condition does the life of victorious living in Christ bring us?

A condition of worthiness.

3.What does it mean to not "defile our garments"?

To not practice uncleanness in actions, words, motives, thoughts, and imaginations.

4.What kinds of actions, speech, and thought "soil the garments" of the believers in Christ?

Hatred, spite, jealousy, lust, adultery, fornication, unforgiveness, impatience, unbelief, self-seeking, drunkenness and revelry, foolish behavior, covetousness, untruthfulness, profanity, dabbling in the occult, violence, and anger.

5.What is the first step the Christian must take in order to wash his or her garment in the blood of the Lamb?

He must confess his sins.

6.What is the second step the Christian must take to cleanse his spiritual clothes?

He must repent of his sins. Having denounced them as unworthy of the Kingdom of God, he must resolve that by the Lord’s help he never again will practice those deeds, words, or thoughts.

7.What is the third step?

He must believe firmly in God’s promise that when we "confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

8.The fourth step?

When the same temptation returns he is to submit himself to God and resist the devil.

9.What is true of us if we do not keep ourselves unspotted from sin?

We are not worthy to walk with Christ.

10.What is the first reward to the overcomer of the Sardis-type church?

He or she will be "clothed in white raiment."

11.Of what is being clothed in white raiment a part?

The first resurrection from the dead.