What Jesus is saying to the church.

The LORD looks at the heart. What does He see when He looks at yours? One that is faithful to Him and His word? Is He still first in your heart or have you like the church in Ephesus, forsaken your first love? Are you self-centred or are you God-centred ? Do you live by God’s rules which are clearly stated in His word or are you living by your own rules thinking God’s rules don’t apply to you? Jesus told the church in Pergamum and Thyatira that if they didn’t repent of their sexual immorality He would soon come to them and would fight against them with the sword of His mouth and make them suffer intensely. The church in Sardis was spiritually dead and their deeds not complete in the sight of God. Jesus said if they didn’t wake up that He would come against them at an hour they did not know. Are you on fire for God or are you like the Laodicean church that was neither hot nor cold and because of their lukewarmness Jesus was going to spit them out of His mouth? Do you belong to one of these churches? If you do you need to repent because we don’t know when Jesus will return. Then there are the faithful churches Smyrna and Philadephia. Jesus says if we have kept His command to endure patiently He will keep us from the hour of trial that is to come upon the whole world.