SPECIAL MESSAGE TO WGM TEAM PARTNERS
January 8, 2024
The Straight Testimony to the Laodiceans Series (Rev. 3:14-22).
Prayerfully and carefully read and ponder upon the startling message of “the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning [actually, the ‘Beginner’] of the creation of God” to the last of the seven churches depicted in Revelation chapters 2 and 3.
Omniscience and omnipresence combined with perfect love, divine mercy and the rule of righteousness prepared these startling messages specifically for the spiritually lukewarm members of the remnant church of prophecy.
To humbly “hear His voice and harden not our hearts” is to accept the divine Physician’s diagnosis that the seemingly benign disease of “lukewarmness” is actually malign in nature such that He will “spew out of His mouth” those “infected” and inflicted by the self-deception of presumptuous self-confidence.
The tell-tale symptoms of this end-time spiritual disease is when the remnant church member already believes and manifests by word and action that he is “rich and increased with goods, and has need of nothing.” This is actually saying “I am already doctrinally and spiritually safe and sound.” Such is the outrageously deceptive power and work of Satan, the master deceiver who deployed his first great deception with Eve, the mother of mankind, in garden of Eden of all places!
The divine diagnosis is indeed alarming: “Knowest thou not [don’t you know] that thou are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.” The first-ever nakedness revealed the first-ever guilt of transgression of God’s law by Adam and Eve in Eden. God never changes and neither does His standard of righteousness. And like ifs Author, the Law-giver, it is also “the same yesterday, today, and forever.” All are measured and judged by one and the same standard as defined in His law and magnified in the life and teachings of Christ.
What God required and expected of Adam He does the same for all mankind, particularly those who profess to be part of the “saints who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus” in these last days.
The only hope of those guilty of spiritual lukewarmness is to quickly accept the divine Physician’s diagnosis and immediately comply with all He has specifically prescribed. To respond in any less a manner, for whatever excuse or reason, is to reject the terms of one’s salvation. Hence, “Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.”
To be continued, God willing. Bless all, NMF.