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THE last word of our Lord to the church is not the Great Commission. The Great Commission is indeed our program to the end of the age, but our Lord’s last word to the church is “Repent.” That was his command to five out of seven of the churches in Asia, and that proportion still holds. Five out of seven Christians and churches today need first of all to repent.Today there is plenty of religious interest, a wave of mass evangelism, and all kinds of church activities. But none of these add up to real revival in the church. The messages in this book are meant to exhort both individual Christians and the church at large to take our Lord’s last call seriously.Havner closely examines our Lord’s words to each of the seven churches of Asia Minor, devoting a chapter to each church. The chapter titles are suggestive: Ephesus: Lovelessness; Smyrna: Longsuffering; Pergamos: Laxity; Thyatira: Libertinism; Sardis: Lifelessness; Philadelphia: Loyalty; Laodicea: Lukewarmness. In the last chapter he talks about the Lordship of Jesus Christ and finishes with this statement followed by a question: “The heart of revival, of the deepest Christian life, of Christianity, is making Jesus Lord. Have you done it?”