SPECIAL TEXT MESSAGE FOR WGM TEAM MEMBERS:
April 1, 2024
THIS SPIRITUAL DISEASE IS NOT HOPELESS – Part 26 (No. 8)
Before His accurate, comprehensive, and fail-proof diagnosis, here first is a more complete identification of the credentials and corresponding title of the attending divine Physician:
He is none other than Jesus Christ, the “brightness of the Father’s glory and express image of His Person” (Heb. 1: 3), currently in the heavenly sanctuary performing His closing work as our merciful High Priest and righteous Judge whose personal Presence is in and through the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Godhead, His only vicegerent on earth.
In this instance and stage of the church, He is specifically identified by the divine title. “the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning [more properly, the Beginner] of the creation of God” (Rev. 3: 14, KJV).
The divine Diagnosis, Tracing from Cause to Effect:
- Spiritual Ignorance caused by spiritual pride. “Knowest not that thou art.” The details of the spiritual cause: “Because I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing.”
- The General Symptomatic Manifestation: Spiritual lukewarmness; “neither cold nor hot.”
- The Specific Spiritual Ravages and Damages Caused upon the Heart, Mind, and Moral Character of the Afflicted Christian:
- Wretched
- Miserable
- Poor
- Blind
- Naked
Of the seven church stages/conditions recorded in detail in Revelation chapters 2 and 3, this seventh and last stage/condition is quite obviously the worst. Be a Berean. Acts 17:11. Read and verify all from your own Bibles.
Following this, I will share what “the law and testimony” (Isa. 8:20) reveals of each specific spiritual “ravage-damage” caused by the Laodicean disease and the specific cure for each one. Only if God permits and enables me. Bless all, NMF.