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"To the angel of the church in Sardiswrite: He who has the sevenSpirits of God and the sevenstars, saysthis: 'I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.
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'Sorememberwhat you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Thereforeif you do not wake up, I will comelike a thief, and you will not know at whathour I will come to you.
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'He who overcomes will thus be clothed in whitegarments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his namebefore My Father and before His angels.
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"And to the angel of the church in Philadelphiawrite: He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and noone will shut, and who shuts and nooneopens, saysthis:
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'I know your deeds. Behold, I have putbefore you an opendoorwhichnoonecanshut, because you have a littlepower, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.
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'Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie -I will make them come and bowdown at your feet, and make them know that I have loved you.
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'Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the wholeworld, to testthose who dwell on the earth.
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'He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the newJerusalem, which comesdown out of heaven from My God, and My newname.
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'Because you say, "I amrich, and have becomewealthy, and haveneed of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,
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I advise you to buy from Me goldrefined by fireso that you may becomerich, and whitegarmentsso that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eyesalve to anoint your eyesso that you may see.