Title: Open the door to your heart
Revelation 3:18-22 Open the door of your heart Topic: 7. Relationships 2008. 1. 27.
◎ Introduction
: This is God's counsel, promise, and command to the Laogedia Church, which has the worst spiritual condition.
※ La Gaddy Church was the church with the worst spiritual condition.
① A church that has nothing inwardly good;
② A church that does no benefit at all,
③ It was a church that would have been better not to exist.
1. Christ Speaks (14)
2. Rebuke and warning (15-17)
3. Recommendation (18-20)
4. Promises and orders. (21-22)
1. Christ Speaks (14)
※ The recipient is the messenger (minister) of the church and is ultimately responsible for the status of the church.
* He wants the minister to awaken the believers first and then lead them to a place of repentance and total devotion.
※ Laogedia was the most prosperous and prosperous city in Burgia.
* The center of finance and banking * The center of the apparel industry * A medical school famous for eye drops
※ Who is Jesus Christ?
One). It is “Amen”. - Personal claim.
※ He will meet the needs of all churches who will repent, turn and give their lives completely to Christ.
2). “The faithful and true witness.” - to my father
※ If you want to be accepted by God through baptismal rites, church registration, regulations, worship services, ceremonies, fellowship, and attendance, that church cannot see Christ.
3). It is “the beginning of God’s creation.”
※ The church is neither the creator nor the sustainer itself.
2. Rebuke and warning (15-17)
One). Rebuke: Neither cold nor hot, and lukewarm. (15)
※ The realistic appearance of most church members is
① Because he is lukewarm, he is half devoted and has no enthusiasm.
② I was satisfied with myself and lethargic.
③ He took a cold and ambiguous attitude.
※ “It is better to be cold than to be lukewarm” (I know the need for clothes and warmth. It is a word of faith)
※ What made the Laodia Church badly, useless, and worthless?
①Because of lukewarmness (indifference, self-satisfaction, helplessness, lack of enthusiasm, taking an ambiguous position)
②The church and the believers did not fully devote themselves to the work of serving.
※ I did not find anything good for those who properly believe.
2) Warning: I will vomit (16~17)
※ “I will vomit you out of my mouth” reject all those who are lukewarm and do not fully commit themselves.
※ A lukewarm devotion will only make Christ nauseous.
① lukewarmness leads to false confessions.(17)
* There is nothing lacking because we are wealthy on our own. I thought I was given a special blessing.
* They confuse prosperity and material blessings with spirituality and spiritual blessings.
* The Laodia Church had the money, manpower, strength and ability to carry out various ministries.
* They indulge in self-satisfaction and are not comfy, so all things (worship, Bible study, prayer, missionary work, evangelism, other activities, etc.)
It was formal and was done as a part of church activities. (There is no sense of necessity, desire for the Word, spiritual burden, or spiritual growth.)
② The lukewarm church is rejected because of its reality.
* Their reality is wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. (Spiritual Life)