SERMON STUDY GUIDE Sunday June 7th, 2015
1. What experience have you had where you thought something
was what it wasn’t? Where someone you knew wasn’t what they
seemed?
2. Why do people try to appear different than who they are? Why
is it hard to maintain this false identity?
3. Read Colossians 1:15-23. What does Jesus have the power and
authority to do? What is the source of this power? How does
this bring hope to you?
4. Two of the seven church’s were in such bad shape they didn’t
have anything for Jesus to compliment them on. Sardis is one
of those. What has happened to this church?
5. What does Jesus look at to decide if they are in good shape or
not? What is essential for a church to be doing to be alive?
6. Jesus gives them instructions on how to be revived back to life.
Of the five things he says (see 3:2-3), two are action oriented.
What do you need to be doing to bring greater life to your faith
and to your church?
7. Jesus ends his letter to Sardis with a reminder there is a reward
waiting for those who persevere. How often do you think about
being rewarded by Jesus for your faith? What reward are you
looking forward to? Why is it important to think about the rewards of faithfulness?
8. What’s the life behind your name? What are you going to do
this week to live a life that is a more Jesus-filled, overflowing
life? Write it down and share it with a friend.
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that
they may have life and have it abundantly.” (John 10:10, ESV)
SERMON OUTLINE Pastor David Cooke
Revelation – Spiritual CPR Needed June 7, 2015
What’s the life behind your name?
The Life Behind the Name of Jesus
““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, ESV)
Colossians 1:15–23 (ESV)
A. He Has Spiritual Power
B. He Has Spiritual Authority
What’s Right?
What’s Wrong?
Revelation 3:1
What’s Behind A Name?
“I know your life. You have the name of being alive, but you are
dead.”
It’s what we do that shows our passion, our love, our priorities. It’s
what we do that shows our life.
What To Do When There’s No Life Behind The Name
Revelation 3:2–3
SERMON OUTLINE Pastor David Cooke
Revelation – Spiritual CPR Needed June 7, 2015
A. Sneak Attack
B. Face ____________________
• “The beginning of wisdom is to call something by its right
name.” Chinese Proverb
• 1 Corinthians 10:12–13
C. Do Right _________________
“…strengthen what remains and is about to die…”
D. Focus On The Good and True
“Remember, then, what you received and heard.”
Colossians 1:15–19
E. Do _______________ Things
• “…Keep it…”
F. Repent
• “…and repent…”
• You are completely loved. You are completely saved. You are
being completely renewed.
SERMON OUTLINE Pastor David Cooke
Revelation – Spiritual CPR Needed June 7, 2015
The Reward Of A Good Name
Revelation 3:4–5
A. _________ Clothes
B. Reserved __________________
C. _______________ Recognition
“By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has
come in the flesh is from God,” (1 John 4:2, ESV)
“Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.”
(1 John 4:15, ESV)
What’s the life behind your name?
Answers: Reality, Things, Right, Cool, Seating. Special