Do you really appreciate the Bible?

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

We are so casual with the word of God.

We even just throw that phrase off our lips so easily,

but this is God speaking.

If we really believed that,

would we not be on our faces, on our knees?

Would there not be conviction?

Would there not be wholehearted surrender? Would there not be on our faces, on our knees? Would there not be conviction? Would there not be wholehearted surrender?

Would there not be transformation in our lives if we received this as the Word of God?

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMas Walgam.

Author of Surrender, The Heart God Controls. For September 18th,

2023, I'm Dana Gresh.

Have you grown complacent to God's word and the message of the gospel?

Oftentimes, we need to call to wake up, just like the letter Jesus gave to the church at Sardis.

Nancy's been explaining the background of this letter and why it matters for us today.

She's in the middle of a series called Wake Up. Let's listen.

The city of Sardis was built on a plateau that reaches up 1,500 feet over the valley floor. And this plateau city was surrounded on three sides by smooth rock walls that go

almost straight up, almost perpendicular to the ground. There's no way to scale those

walls. And in the ancient days, the only way to get into the city was one entrance on the south

side, and the path leading up to the city was steep and difficult to climb. So this is a city that was

considered impregnable. They felt secure, and as a result, they became complacent, and they were prone to let down

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