Nancy DeMoswagamuth knows none of us is fully sanctified, so that means you might need to repent today.

It's to be a way of life within the church, within our lives as believers.

And repentance is not just feeling sorry about the condition of our lives or the condition of the churches.

It's mourning over our sin. It's changing direction.

It means reorienting our lives around the call and the implications of the gospel and living as

redeemed people. This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Choosing Gratitude.

For October 20th, 2023, I'm Dana Gresh.

Jesus sent seven messages through John in the Book of Revelation.

Those messages have been a rich source of study for us on Reviver Hearts

as we've devoted several series to these letters this year.

Today, Nancy is going to wrap up all those series,

looking at what Jesus' words say to the church and to each of us today.

I got an email recently from one of our Reviver Hearts staff who had been listening to this series as we've been recording it.

And she said, this series may turn out to be one of the most important you have ever recorded in light of all that's going on today.

She said it's hard for us to fathom where we could be as a nation and globally by the time this series airs.

And as I'm recording this, I don't know where we will be globally and as a nation by the time this series airs.

But it's interesting that the timing of Jesus' revelation to John and the focus of the revelation that we've

been looking at, remember we said at the beginning of this series that the churches in the

first century in Asia Minor were going through horrific persecution. The emperors of Rome,

Nero, Domitian, they were using cruel measures to try and wipe out the church.

And you would think that if Jesus were going to speak to a church in that era where they were suffering so much,

that he would have given them some type of survival manual.

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