(Revelation 3:1-6)

Jesus exerts His authority as King and Lord, and gets tough with the Church of Sardis. Sardis is spiritually dead. It is unregenerate, void of the Holy Spirit, not prayerful, fails to accept nourishment from the Word of God, and a host of other big issues that God is seeking. In other words, they are way too tangled up with the world. Jesus brings these things to their attention, and mentions to them that if they do not repent, and they continue in this fashion, He will come again and they will not know what hit them. The word of warning that this sends to us today is that Jesus is NOT ONLY a loving savior and friend, He is the Lord of the earth, favored by God the Father and should have authority and dominion in your life and in the life of the church.