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Monday... We have heard, and it is so important.


Revelation 3:3a (AMP), "So remember and take to heart the lessons you have received and heard."

Monday... We have heard, and it is so important.

We are headed into a new week. Now, many have over the weekend gone to church and they worshiped in song, heard some scripture and then a message, a sermon was given.  All of that can be just a part of our routine as Christians. We have done what we are suppose to do, now it is off to live another work week. But John, the writer of the book of Revelation gives this thought from God to the churches in Sardis and Laodicea and it is also to us.


In Revelation 3:3a (AMP) John writes what God has told him to write, "So remember and take to heart the lessons you have received and heard." Now so many of us don't spend too much time during our work week reading and meditating on our Bible so what we hear when we go to church on the weekend, it is so imperative that we, "Remember and take to heart the lessons you have received and heard."

Now we don't want this to be said of us but verse 2 says about this church in Sardis, "Wake up, and strengthen and reaffirm what remains [of your faithful commitment to Me], which is about to die; for I have not found [any of] your deeds completed in the sight of My God or meeting His requirements."

The whole verse 3 says, "So remember and take to heart the lessons you have received and heard. Keep and obey them, and repent [change your sinful way of thinking, and demonstrate your repentance with new behavior that proves a conscious decision to turn away from sin]. So then, if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you." Yes, remembering, taking to heart, keeping and obeying the lessons from Him and repenting and demonstrating with new behavior is so very important to God. 

In verse 1b (NLT) God says to this church through John, "I know all the things you do, and that you have a reputation for being alive - but you are dead." 

Now in verses 19-22, He says this to another church and He says it to us, "I correct and discipline everyone I love. Do be diligent and turn from your indifference. 'Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends. Those who are victorious will sit with me in my throne, just as I was victorious and sat with my Father on his throne.'"

And then John says at the end of this chapter, "Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches." So let's listen and understand and do. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning



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