I continue to preach through the messages to the churches of Revelation (chapters 2 and 3), and this past Sunday we were in Sardis. God had some issues with the church. In fact it resembled a lot of places I have seen in my years going to church. The writer said that they had a reputation for being alive. They did good things. They even sounded good. But a reputation is what God is looking for. They were dead. On the outside they looked the part. On the inside there was no life. Jesus spoke to this as He encountered the Pharisees. Listen in to that conversation that got very real … Matthew 23:37-38 NLT "What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs-beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people's bones and all sorts of impurity. 28 Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and ...