Revelation 3:3-4

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 3:3

‘If therefore you will not watch, I will come as a thief and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you.’ Jesus’ teaching was full of the need to be like servants waiting for their Lord to return, busy about His service, doing good, and honouring their Lord, with love in their hearts as they expect His arrival. This is what this church must revive if they are to live. They must begin to watch for His return and live in the light of it. But if they will not do so then He will suddenly... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 3:4

‘But you have a few names (people) in Sardis who did not defile (spoil) their clothing, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.’ Sardis was a centre for the manufacture and dyeing of woollen garments. They knew what it meant for clothing to be ruined in the process of manufacture and dyeing, and that is what the church themselves have done with their spiritual garments. They have totally ruined them. They are useless. No longer are they concerned to be clothed in the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 3:1-6

Revelation 3:1-Joshua : . The Letter to the Church at Sardis.— Sardis was a little more than 30 miles SE. of Thyatira: formerly a city of great importance, at this time it had become a town of the second rank. It had been destroyed by an earthquake in A.D. 17 , and though rebuilt it had not recovered its former glory. Revelation 3:1 . seven spirits of God: Revelation 1:4 *.— name that thou livest: this is the severest condemnation passed upon any of the churches. Revelation 3:2 . the things... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 3:1-22

Revelation 2:1 to Revelation 3:22 . The Letters to the Seven Churches.— These letters are addressed to individual churches, but their messages are intended for the Church as a whole. In every letter there occurs the phrase, “ He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.” read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 3:3

Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard; to wit, from the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ. All true reformation, either of doctrine or manners, lies in the reduction of it to the doctrine delivered, and the rules of life given by them. And hold fast, and repent: wherein our judgment or practice is conformable to theirs, it is to be held fast; wherein it hath varied, it is to be repented of. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief; if thou shalt not keep... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 3:4

Thou hast a few names even in Sardis, a few persons even in that polluted place, which have not defiled their garments; who have kept their integrity and innocency. There is a garment of Christ’s righteousness, which, once put on, is never lost, nor can be defiled; but there are garments of holiness also: hence the apostle calls to Christians to be clothed with humility. As sin is expressed under the notion of nakedness, so holiness is expressed under the notion of a garment, Ezekiel 16:10; 1... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Revelation 3:1-6

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESRevelation 3:1. Sardis.—Modern, Sart; once the capital of the old Lydian monarchy, now a village of paltry huts. Seven Spirits of God.—Most writers see in this the endowment of Christ with the Spirit, so as to be judge in His Church. But this idea involves unduly pressing the word “hath,” which more naturally suggests “hath in control” than “hath in possession.” Stuart understands our Lord presented here as having the seven presence-angels under His control, or at... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Revelation 3:3

DISCOURSE: 2496EPISTLE TO SARDISRevelation 3:3. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shall not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.IN the Church of God, there must, of necessity, be a great diversity of characters: and the office of a minister is, to make a just discrimination between them, and, like a steward in a great family, to give to every one of them his portion in due... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Revelation 3:4-6

DISCOURSE: 2497EPISTLE TO SARDISRevelation 3:4-6. Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches.IN all the preceding part of this epistle, we... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Revelation 3:4

A Solemn Warning for All Churches February 24, 1856 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white; for they are worthy." Revelation 3:4 . My learned and eminently pious predecessor, Dr. Gill, is of opinion that the different churches spoken of in the Book of Revelation are types of different states through which the church of God shall pass until it comes into the Philadelphia state, the state... read more

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