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“I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead” (Revelation 3:1).
This is a very serious thing in our verse for today, yet it was written to an assembly that pretended to be an assembly of God. What had happened? Sadly, people had gotten used to Christianity, and were pretending to be Christians, when they had never really accepted the Lord Jesus as their Savior. It is possible to carry a Bible, to go to Christian meetings, to memorize verses from the Bible, and to be able to talk about Christian things, yet not be a real Christian.
There are many people in Western Europe and North America like this, as well as in other parts of the world. They are trusting in the fact that they live good, morally upright lives, and go to “church” regularly. Yet they are not truly saved, and often what they hear when they go to “church” is not a real gospel message.
If you know the gospel, are you saved? It is a very dangerous thing to pretend to be a Christian, and yet to be unsaved. A true Christian has new life in Christ, but an unbeliever is dead. Are you dead or alive?
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