It may consist in the omission of some duty. Lavington. Because when God sees all our sins, it is with a most holy and pure eye, and such an eye as cannot abide such an object before Him.3. H. )Some causes of spiritual deathC. George III. He hath the seven Spirits and the seven stars. He hath endured it too long, but He will not suffer it always. It is evinced by irritability and unsubmissiveness of temper under trials and afflictions.IV. II. Unconsciousness is the surest sign of spiritual decline. Many a man has felt he could surrender his entire property to God; but when the temptation arose of making a hundred dollars by a trick of the trade, he has chosen to be dishonest. One of the most vital doctrines must therefore be what relates to the Person of the Redeemer.2. The graces of the Spirit are granted only to certain conditions, and they are removed when these essentials depart from us. Our chief concern is with one infinitely greater: He that judges us is the Lord.11. of man that looketh only on the outside. Deadness of conscience, when the conscience hath no force; it may be it finds fault with such and such ways, but it hath no power over the man to make him to leave them.5. What is it that takes away the grievousness of it, but a lively heart?(Wm. They are out of the reach of the sting of death, and so need not through fear of it pass their lives in bondage; they are near a blessed immortality, in which they are to live for ever. You will never be vigorous Christians unless you can say, "I have desired the words of Thy mouth more than my necessary food." Another use is of terror against us. 3. Trapp.Many content themselves with the name of Christians; as if many a ship hath not been called "Safeguard" or "Good-speed" which yet hath fallen into the hands of pirates.(J. Their Lord was quickly coming; let them hold on but a little longer, and then this crown should be theirs. First, for conversion. (1) The knowledge Christ has of the works of men is most clear. Gowen. He was a drunkard, and now he is sober. Revelation 3 /. THE SEASONABLE EXHORTATION WHICH OUR LORD ADDRESSED TO THE CHURCH IN SARDIS.V. 1. Fenner, B. D.)Moral deathWm. Place before the eye of the living body a scene of loveliness or of horror, and from the eye the heart is at once affected, at once feels the attraction or repulsion, and so feels as to act upon that feeling. The first steps of a backslider are visible only to God and the individual himself.2. Works that we may have forgotten are known to Him and remembered by Him. There may be great head-knowledge and ability to discourse of hypocrisy itself with appearing abhorrence, and of sincerity with signs of love to it; and yet all these may be found in one unchanged at heart.2. Your Christianity can only be sustained by the repetition continually of that which kindled it at first.(A. He knows what men are, and what they have been, and what they will be, as He knows all their thoughts, words, and works. Yet no incorporation followed. He knows all their dispositions, their persons, their natures, their qualities, their affections, and ends and aims and motives, and estates; He knows how many are rotten though they profess never so much, how many are unsound though they be never so well esteemed in the Church; He knows in what estate every man stands (Job 11:11). )A life akin to deathC. Another use is of terror against us. If we have a name to be alive, we are without excuse if we be not. True, spiritual life, as it is a quickening, so is it an impulsive principle. 10. In what manner Christ knows men's works. Beware lest the too partial judgment of men mislead thee as to the judgment of God. Mere negatives will not be sufficient.II. A shadowy loveliness is seen to linger on the lifeless features. A censorious spirit is a certain symptom of lamentable declension in the things of God in the soul.5. It is hurtful unto others. And so, alas! When Christ declares, I know. Secondly, it is a very blasphemy to get the name for good people, when we are not good people indeed. There are means of revival which may in every case be employed with success. A statue may be so curiously painted and dressed as to be mistaken, at a distance, for a man; and a hypocrite may borrow so much of the appearance of Christian graces, as may enable him to pass for a genuine Christian.1. One cause of spiritual death is self-satisfaction. That spirit comes permeating, enlightening, illuminating, vivifying, discerning, and strengthening all of us if we yield ourselves to it. He does not take up with appearances, but sees through every disguise, and takes things as they really are. of man that looketh only on the outside. Our chief concern is with one infinitely greater: He that judges us is the Lord.11. III. Do you feed the life of Christ in you? Lavington. How fit is Christ to be the Judge of all men at the last day, who knows every man's work now!6. H. Spurgeon.How like to a Christian a man may be and yet possess no vital godliness! To those whose souls are prosperous, and who enjoy the inestimable privileges of religion. thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead, with what solicitude should every one make the inquiry, Lord, is it I?10. How different with the soul that really lives! Maclaren, D. D.By these seven Spirits of God is meant apparently that One Divine Person, the Holy Spirit, to whom, with the Father and the Son, we render homage and praise. It had not life enough to be obnoxious! GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point How big with terror to hypocrites is this doctrine.7. If we have self-condemning heart, how much more shall we find a condemning God? If it be asked, With whom such may have a name to live? Maclaren, D. D.)I know thy worksGod knows the works of menW. Deadness of guilt; when a man is guilty of any offence, that is death by the law. (5) The knowledge Christ has of the works of men is with approbation, or dislike, according as they are found to be good or bad.II. The effect of spiritual declension soon makes its appearance in the domestic circle.3. Maclaren, D. D.)Uselessness of mere professionJ. Jews had cast them out, but the God of the true "holy city" had declared it theirs, and that their true home was his own city. If we have a name to be alive, we are without excuse if we be not. Gowen. (3) A name to live may result from experiencing the common operations of the Spirit of God, which for a time may look hopeful and promising. True, spiritual life, as it is a quickening, so is it an impulsive principle. Many a man that is smitten at the word, that begins amendment, and gives good hopes that he will come to something in the end, when he lights upon such Sardian saints, that are so in name, but there is no life at all in them, these put him back again. Beware lest the too partial judgment of men mislead thee as to the judgment of God. A traveller lost on the prairie, with the snow falling fast and thick, with his blood coursing slowly, feels that sense of ease which the opium-eater knows. Fifthly, Does God know all men's sins? Johnson assumes (again) that the day of the Lord must begin before the seven-year period. of man that looketh only on the outside. What is it that takes away the grievousness of it, but a lively heart?(Wm. Then, whatever else you may have, you are destitute indeed. "Ye Jews say ye are Jews, but in any real sense ye are not; ye do lie; but this my despised, yet faithful Church, I have loved her, and I, the Holy, the True, the King of Israel, do now confess her as she has confessed me." it is with many; having a name to live, they are dead.(T. "The decay was not as yet thorough in the Church at Sardis; there was still a chance of regaining the lost time, and living by Christ. Ay! The reason is this — religion hath an inward dependence upon God; it hath an internal relation unto God; it puts a man into a propriety with God that God is his God; it puts the very name of God upon a man. Now, if a man take the name without the thing, it must needs be a very blasphemy. -------------------- This is a poor thing, if this man now be not lively stone. Cooke, D. D.)That a minister may be in fault that the people are deadWm. He is the spirit of consolation, of adoption, of supplication, of holiness and wisdom, of power and of love, and of sound mind, and into all our deadness there will come the life-breath which shall surely quicken it all. May one that has a name to live be spiritually dead? Fifthly, it is an impudent thing. (2) A name to live, as it implies an open and visible profession of subjection to Christ, a joining with His people in His worship and ordinances, and an holding on some time in such a course; so it may arise from these. 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