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No Christian will ever ADMIT to being a part of the church of the Laodiceans which is described in Rev.3:14-22. Our Lord, Jesus Christ has NOTHING good to say about this church. Christians always point to some other "church group" and say, "See, that is a Laodicean church!! We aren't like that!!"

Again, we have a "pot/kettle/black" kind of situation. Most of the time, Pastors do not teach what this "church" is all about....and WHY God is "nauseated" with them. Too often, this would be like looking in the mirror!! And that won't happen because it would decrease the ($$)profits.

I have my own opinions from personal observance and much study....but sometimes I interject my opinions not very well because I get too emotional. Therefore, I look for others who can tell it better, and more concisely than I am able. Below is a very good link on this subject.

Another thing that I've noticed that most Christians today are ignoring. It is the words that Jesus Christ, Himself, spoke:

Luke 17:20-21..."....The kingdom of God cometh NOT WITH OBSERVATION: (vs.21) Neither shall they say, 'Lo here! or 'lo there!' for, BEHOLD, THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU."

The Laodicean church IGNORES this verse and keeps looking for signs in this world for the approaching "Kingdom of God"...even when God tells us it will not happen this way. This is Biblical "ignorance".

Piece of link article:

I WILL SPEW YOU OUT OF MY MOUTH



"So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth" (Rev. 3:16).


When the Lord warns those in the lukewarm state that He is going to spew them out of His mouth it doesn't mean they are lost and He is going to send them to hell. It is not a word to unbelievers or unconverted, but to the people of God! God says that this is His attitude toward a carnal church! Just like lukewarm water, tea, or coffee, a carnal Christian is not good for anything. God cannot stand the taste. Lukewarm is a sickening combination of hot and cold water. He just wants to get it out of His mouth! Oft times I feel the same way myself. The Greek brings out the idea of ad nauseam more realistically, for it says, "I will vomit you out of my mouth." This sense of loathsomeness on the part of the Lord of the church is undoubtedly the saddest and most lamentable appraisal of God's professed people in all of the scriptures.


David Wilkerson wrote the following words a number of years ago, which have stood the test of time, and with which I heartily concur. "Jesus said of the Laodicean church, 'It will say.I am rich, increasing with goods (wealthy), and am in need of nothing.' (Rev. 3:17). How sad that this particular church, arrogant and boastful, is being heralded by so many undiscerning Christians as the glorious last days church of power and dominion which will subdue the world and bring King Jesus back. It is the Laodicean lie! One dear soul wrote the following: 'Don't you realize, sir, that our next president will be a tongues-speaking, Spirit-filled man? Don't you know that all these great building projects by evangelists are ordained of God? The Lord is training leaders, raising up huge projects so they can move into government positions - having learned all about high finances and building. The church is going to take over the government - Spirit-filled leaders are going to make the laws, doing away with abortion, pornography, and crime. God has raised up a powerful church to take dominion now.'


"God is not at all impressed with this church's bloated estimate of itself! The Laodicean lukewarm church is not destined to dominion, power, and authority of any kind. It is destined to judgment! It is the worst kind of spiritual blindness to line up with those who boast that the modern American church, Charismatic or otherwise, faces its finest hour. What an incredible lack of spiritual discernment! Jesus rips off the façade and exposes the truth about the Laodicean church. It is not what it thinks it is - it is not what it says it is. It is not rich - it is poor! It is not on the increase - it is wretched and is about to be cut off! It is not strong and in need of nothing - but rather, it is naked, shameful! It is not a church with new revelation and deep spiritual insights - Jesus said IT IS BLIND! It is not going to be the vehicle of Christ's dominion on earth, but rather the object of His wrath and abhorrence.


http://www.godfire.net/eby/rev-57.html


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We have seen that the Laodicean church is a democratic church, controlled by the will of the people. We Americans have been told that "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" is a divine form of government, given by the mind of the Lord to our founding Fathers. Where do you find that in the Word of God? Nowhere! The issue is one of authority: is it from God, or from man? If God is the sovereign authority over all things, and Christ is head over all things to the church, which is His body, then His Spirit, mind, and will alone can govern all things. If the ultimate authority is man, then all things must serve man and bow down to man. When the will of the people rules man assumes the posture of sovereign - and that is humanism, pure and simple. It is the rule of the flesh! There is even a church organization called the "Congregationalist Church" which glories in the fact that it is ruled by the people! It is a branch of the church in Laodicea.


I believe in the rule of God, by God, and for God! He is the almighty Creator of all things, for out of Him, and for Him, and unto Him are all things. His omniscient mind arranged the spheres and ordained the ages, and His infinite wisdom and immutable purpose established the end from the beginning. Nothing else has any potential beyond the dismal realm of sin, death, and the grave. If it had not been that God ruled me I would have gone to the devil long ago. I know just a little of my own heart, though it is abundantly true that the Adamic heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, and the wise man wisely asked, "Who can know it?" Yet I know just a little of my own heart and I have seen enough of the little I know to realize that I would have shipwrecked on some benighted shoals of sin, shame, delusion, or death were it not for the rule of God in my life by the Spirit. Thank God, He has taken His great power and has reigned! This is precisely why the kingdom of God has to be within.


It is true - you may have good government under democracy if you have all good people. You may have saintly government under democracy if you have all saintly people. If the people were all ruled by God and for God, and the Voice was the voice of an awakened, renewed, and transformed spirit within, then God would rule. But it is not so. It was not so in Laodicea, for the people were carnal, and the vast majority of Christians today are no less carnal! With carnal people you get carnal government, and all democracies in the end are government of carnality, by carnality, and for carnality.

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I couldn't have said it better. In fact, I couldn't have said it as well.

Arlene