Revelation 3:14; Christ’s Message to the Church in Laodicea
Revelation 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
“Christ’s Message to the Church in Laodicea” taken from Rev. 3:14-22 is our 6thand last sermon that gave a true assessment of the spiritual state of Christ’s Church in the Church Age. An assessment made by our Lord Himself. These were His very words spoken, recorded and preserved for our generation, relevant, realistic and reasonable, most practical!
It is my prayer that you are paying close attention to what God has to say concerning your spiritual life. He is concerned. That’s why He dictated that the Apostle John may write and we may take heed for our spiritual-wellness.
This church in Laodicea is the last and the worst of the lot. The church in Laodicea is in a state of spiritual delusion. The church in Ephesus had a coldness of heart and the chill is bad for her spiritual health, she needed to rekindle that first love. It was obvious. The suffering and persecuted church in Smyrna thought itself poor when it was really spiritually rich, fervently in spirit. Thyatira, too, had a warmness of heart, a fervency of love though infiltrated subtly with falsehood and not dealing with sin. Progressively, Pergamos is worse than Thyatira in that sin has come in openly and has to be dealt with for her salvation, though there is still that fervency of love in the midst of persecution, one saint was martyred. The church in Sardis is pronounced dead and at least they admit that there is that deadness or coldness in them. The church in Philadelphia is fervent in spirit, faithfully serving the Lord. And so, we see both ends of the scale in the six churches discussed. They were either hot or cold spiritually speaking. But this 7thchurch in Laodicea is one of her kind. She is neither hot nor cold, in a state of self-delusion. It was going through the motions of piety. But sadly, there was no true piety. Yet, it is claiming itself pious, very much like the state of Israel during the time of Christ, the state of spiritual hypocrisy. If you expose them, they turn against you.
Nevertheless, our Lord loves this church in Laodicea and sought her repentance, that they may come back to Him, though the words may not be well received as did Jesus’s encounter with the Pharisees and Scribes.
Amen.