Revelation 3

Pastor Marshall Ochs | August 21, 2022

In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Revelation 3. This chapter includes the final three letters from Jesus to His church. Out of seven churches, only two are faithfully enduring in obedience to God’s Word. They are suffering persecution while the remaining five struggle with false teachers or drifting toward irrelevance. Jesus calls all His churches to turn from their sin and back to Him, but many are overwhelmed with success or false doctrine and ultimately refuse His knocking at their door.

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  1. Read Revelation chapter 3 and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal what He wants to speak to you today. The beauty of God’s Word and the Holy Spirit who lives inside us is that we can read Scripture daily, and it becomes new each time. Not because we are reading something different, but because the Spirit who lives inside us reveals what we need when we need it.

  2. Jesus’ assertion to the church of Sardis was they had a reputation of being alive, but He declared they were dead. Are there any ways you outwardly appear alive, but inwardly you are asleep?

  3. Jesus’ message to the Church of Sardis was to remember what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. What is Christ speaking to you today? Where is He calling you to repent?

  4. Jesus promises those who conquer will be clothed in white garments, and He will never blot their names out of the book of life. We are not called to prevail in our strength. Spend time in prayer asking God to empower you to walk in obedience, awake to what He is doing, and in complete surrender to His plan.

  5. Read Isaiah 22:15-25 and ask the Holy Spirit to open your eyes and heart to understand His Old Testament words in a new way; not a different way, but an exciting understanding of seeing Jesus from the very first word of Scripture, throughout the middle and to the very end.

  6. Jesus’ assertion to the church of Laodicea was they were neither hot nor cold; they were lukewarm. Their identity was not from Jesus but their city. Where is your identity found? Are you trying to buy “healing” from the world or Jesus?