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February 16, 2024
The Straight Testimony to the Laodiceans – Part 15
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE LAODICEAN MESSAGE THROUGH THE YEARS (Fifth Part)
1901 - “The Laodicean message is applicable to the church AT THIS TIME. Do you believe in this message? Have you hearts that FEEL? Or are you constantly saying, ‘we are rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing’? . . . God has a CHOSEN PEOPLE and made them REPOSITORIES of truth weighty with ETERNAL RESULTS. To them has been given light that must illuminate the world. HAS GOD MADE A MISTAKE? Are we the men and women who are to bear to the world the messages of Revelation 14, to proclaim the message to those standing in the BRINK of ruin? DO WE ACT AS WE WERE?” -ibid, Man. 51, 1901/ 7BC 961.
1902 “The message to the Laodicean church is applicable to all who have had GREAT LIGHT and MANY OPPORTUNITIES, and yet, have NOT APPRECIATED THEM.” Ibid, RH Mar. 11, 1902/ 7BC 961. NOTE: If, in any way, shape, or form we feel contented, secure, and confident that we have already “made our calling and election sure” such that we are just patiently “waiting” for Jesus to finally come in blazing glory “to take us home” to the “mansions” He has been taking too long “to prepare” for us, then the Laodicean message specially applies to us. We have unfinished work to complete and so little left to “redeem lost time in these “evil days.”
Until we fully realize that our MORAL CHARACTERS have to be first INDIVIDUALLY “transformed by the renewing of the carnal “mind” of the “old man” into the spiritual mind of “the new man in Christ Jesus,” thus enabling us to “present our “bodies as a living sacrifice” to God and the Holy Spirit to be their appointed TEMPLE, “which is but our “reasonable service,” we will fail to please God in Christ, and prevent Him from placing His SEAL of approval IN our foreheads indicating that we were indeed FITTED-UP for eternity (not merely the one-time event of the Second advent) by the lifetime work of daily sanctification until our brief life is ended—we don’t know when, where, or how, only that it is a certainty. One of the most important goals of the whole gospel is to restore the lost image of God in fallen, sinful man.
And Christ, by His mysterious incarnation, followed by victorious death, then His all-powerful intercession has made that possible to all “who love and keep and obey His commandments. The finishing touch of immortality of eternal life is rewarded only to those “who died in Christ,” not to those who “perished in their sins” because of fatal self-confidence. “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth (made new).”
To be continued, God willing. Bless all, NMF.