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Date: 18-May-02
Length: 71 Min.
Tape: 558
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Subject: The Sardis Era of the True Church
Summary:
Martin Collins characterizes the Sardis era (c. 1585-1934) as a time of forgetfulness and dying spirituality. Few of this era did not defile their garments. Many were labeled by their critics as Anabaptist or Seventh Day Baptists (larger Protestant Sabbatarian organizations). Occasionally, some were disparagingly described as "soul sleepers" or other stigmatizing labels. Family churches, headed by the Stennett and the Bantfield families, kept essential doctrines from eroding. Unfortunately, many of their followers, while perhaps ardent Sabbath worshippers, did not internalize much else of God's truth, forgetting the essentials of true religion (James 1:27), fellowshipping with and eventually assimilating into other worldly religions (II Corinthians 6: 14), tolerating false doctrine, sin, and error. God called a faithful remnant from that era to establish the next—the Philadelphian era.
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