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March 29, 2024
Straight Testimony to the Laodiceans – Part 25
THIS SPIRITUAL DISEASE IS NOT HOPELESS (No. 7)
Jesus sadly said to the self-confident and hypocritical spiritual leaders of His time, “They that be whole need not a Physician.”
All who profess to be Christ’s followers and “water-baptized members” of the remnant church in the these last days need to “stay awake and slumber not” by earnestly desiring and diligently seeking the daily “baptism of the Holy Spirit with fire” that cleanses and purifies the heart and mind, not the physical body.
Because Biblical salvation is individual, all who would be at last eternally saved need to individually—not corporately, never vicariously, but as in partaking of physical food and water for nutrition and health—daily “eat Christ’s flesh and drink His blood,” meaning, “study His Word to show ourselves approved unto God,” and then correspondingly live out the self-denying, self-sacrificing life of Christ as the Example and Pattern, daily, one day at a time.
Thus, by working and overcoming by the empowering grace imparted by the Holy Spirit and ministry of the angels that excel in heaven-borne strength, the character-shaping imaging principle silently works in transformative power so that the individual daily grows into the image-likeness of the character of the yet-invisible Jesus Christ.
By these spiritually-alive, dynamic process and work the true believer and commandment-keeping saint steadily gains by growth in intellectual and spiritual knowledge, understanding, wisdom, and sanctification “unto the measure of the stature of the perfection in Christ Jesus.” He “keeps his conscience void of offense towards God” and thereby obtains “the peace that passeth understanding” and Christ’s “rest” afforded to all “who takes His yoke and learns of His meekness and lowliness of heart.” Indeed, “He will beautify the meek with salvation.”
The spiritually “wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked” lukewarm, Laodicean believer in this seventh and last church stage has only one hope left in Christ: humbly and without delay, fully accept the divine Physician’s diagnosis, submit and yield to Him, and comply with His prescribed life-saving cure and full regimen to maintain and enhance the spiritual health thereafter until one receives “the seal of God in their foreheads.”
To be continued, God willing. Bless all, NMF.