Oakwood Church

“And Jesus answered them, ‘See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, “I am the Christ,” and they will lead many astray.’”
Matthew 24:4-5

“Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
Matthew 24:42-44

“If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.”
Revelation 3:3

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’ and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 24:45-51

Stay Alert:

1. Recognize your spiritual Condition
(dead/alive; weak/strong)

“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.”
Revelation 3:1

Stay Alert:

1. Recognize your spiritual Condition
(dead/alive; weak/strong)

“I know your works. You have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead.”
Revelation 3:1

Stay Alert:

1. Recognize your spiritual Condition
(asleep/awake; incomplete/complete)

“Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.”
Revelation 3:2

Stay Alert:

2. Remember the Gospel and repent

“Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent.”
Revelation 3:3

The Gospel:

A) Jesus is Savior

B) Jesus is Lord

The Popular Gospel:

● Receive Jesus as your personal Savior so you go to heaven when you die

“Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.”
Romans 10:9-10

The Biblical Gospel:

● Surrender your life to Jesus as Lord, believing He died for your sins and rose again

“Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Romans 10:9

The Biblical Gospel:

● Surrender your life to Jesus as Lord, believing He died for your sins and rose again

“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.”
Mark 8:34-35

Stay Alert:

2. Remember the Gospel and repent

“Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent.”
Revelation 3:3

Stay Alert:

2. Remember the Gospel and repent

a. Sanctification – being Clothed with the righteousness of Jesus and walking in His ways

“And they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.”
Revelation 3:4

Stay Alert:

2. Remember the Gospel and repent

b. Justification - being Counted righteous by Jesus through faith in Him

“The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments and I will never blot his name out of the book of life.”
Revelation 3:5

Stay Alert:

2. Remember the Gospel and repent

c. Identification - being Confessed as one with Jesus to God the Father

“I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.”
Revelation 3:5

Stay Alert:

3. Resist the Contaminating effects of sin

“Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments.”
Revelation 3:4

“Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord open to us.’ But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.”
Matthew 25:11-13

“And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 25:30

“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.”
Matthew 25:35-36