Revelation 3:17; Wretched, Miserable and Poor and Blind and Naked

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Revelation 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells us that materialism is a strong master that tears one from his devotion to God. It gives one a false sense of security and stability.

Matthew 6:19-24 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.  

The Apostle Paul points out the sin of covetousness. The word “covet” means “to stretch one’s self out in order to touch or to grasp for something, to reach after or desire something to give one’s self to the love of money”.

The delusion of material wealth has to point the Christian to spiritual well-being is the blind-spot in the life of the Laodicean church.

Our Lord says to them – thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. What a shock it must to receive such indictment. In their delusion, they could not see their spiritual poverty.

This spiritual disease is very much a picture of the Singapore church, left unchecked. May God be merciful to save His church. Amen.



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