“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. 2 Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God. 3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.  4 Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. 5 The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels. 6 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” Revelation 3:1-6

The Problem v. 1– They are the walking dead. 

They have a good reputation with man and not with God.

The Solution- vs 2  They need to Wake up!

vs 3- They need to Remember, Re-do, and Repent.

The Result- vs 4-5  They will receive a spotless reputation on earth and in heaven.

“That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3 Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.”  Matthew 13:1-9

“The problem is not with the Sower or the seed… it is with the soil.”

Laws of the Harvest:

1. We reap much of what we did not sow from others who farmed before us.
2. We reap the same kind as we sow.
3. We reap in a different season than when we sow.
4. We reap proportionately as we sow.
5. We reap more than we sow.
6. We reap because God’s grace.