1. Revelation 3:5 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is comforting in the Lord's promise?

Revelation 3:5 (ESV)

5 The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

The Lord Jesus Christ promises that he will never remove from this book the name of those few in Sardis who retain their initial enthusiasm for the his return. He knows their names and he will preserve them. As their eye in the midst of temptation and tribulation is on the life to come, the Lord will assuredly reward them with the pleasures of eternal life.