Hello, thank you for joining me today, Forgive Him 15.

The title of our post today,

Sensationalism Without Substance.

The last few days, I've taught about the danger of building churches and ministries on gifts and charisma

rather than on God's heart, his wisdom, and sound biblical truths.

This was a serious flaw in the most recent national revivals, the charismatic and Jesus people movements.

Today I want to address another mistake made in those revivals. As I have said previously, I'm doing so

that we might guard against repeating these mistakes in the coming awakening. The weakness I'm

addressing today is building churches and ministries on hype, sensationalism, innovation, etc., rather than on God's

presence, word, power, and anointing. Revelation 3, 1, and 2 says of the church at Sardis,

you have a name that you're alive, but you are dead.

Wake up and strengthen the things that remain,

which were about to die.

This church had obviously been alive and well at one point,

and to the average observer, it continued to have the reputation of being alive.

God, however, looked into the heart of the church and saw its true condition.

The fact that Sardis was still considered spiritually healthy tells us that they continued to do all the right things.

People were impressed.

Jesus, however, said Sardis was dead.

Yes, their presentation was polished, their methods seemingly effective, but it was all

outward show. Inwardly, they had serious heart issues. This problem in the church comes from

attempting to build not on the anointing of Holy Spirit,

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