{"id":358,"date":"2017-08-13T10:38:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T14:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/?p=358"},"modified":"2017-08-14T11:18:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:18:15","slug":"the-seven-churches-of-revelation-part-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2017\/08\/13\/the-seven-churches-of-revelation-part-v\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seven Churches of Revelation &#8211; Part V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church at Sardis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The dead church\n<ul>\n<li>Their works appeared good outwardly, but inwardly they were dead.<\/li>\n<li>There was no persecution in the city &#8211; life was good.<\/li>\n<li>We the church are dead if we look, act and sound just like the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>God commanded the church to strengthen the things that remain\n<ul>\n<li>Remember what we first received from Christ<\/li>\n<li>Repent!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The good news &#8211; \u00a0if the Lord is still working in your life, you&#8217;re not dead yet!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Scriptures:\u00a0<\/strong>Revelation 3:1-6, Philippians 2:13<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-358-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/08-06-17.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/08-06-17.mp3\">http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/08-06-17.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church at Sardis The dead church Their works appeared good outwardly, but inwardly they were dead. There was no persecution in the city &#8211; life was good. We the church are dead if we look, act and sound just&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2017\/08\/13\/the-seven-churches-of-revelation-part-v\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}