My friend, for many in the church today worldliness has become a part of regular life, but while this is certainly a device of Satan, it is not the most deadly. Worldliness is simply the outworking of a heart that has not been truly surrendered to God through His Son Jesus Christ. The condition of the church today is spoken of in the message to the Church of Laodicea. Yet while the church acknowledges this, they are blind to its true meaning, limiting it to a condition of worldliness that pervades the members but not the church as a whole.
The true message is to the church as a whole, telling them that their condition is so nauseating to Jesus that unless the church heeds the warning He will spew (vomit) them out of His mouth. Notice "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." (Revelation 3:15, 16).
What is it about their condition that sickens the Lord? Notice "Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:" (Revelation 3:17). They believe that they are righteous when in fact they are not. The church has a false experience of righteousness by faith.
How is it that they have this false experience of righteousness by faith? The answer is found in the remedy given to them by Jesus, the Faithful and True Witness of God saying, "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see." (Revelation 3:18). They need gold tried in the fire which is a genuine faith. They need white raiment because they do not have the righteousness of Christ, and because of this they are spiritually naked before God. They need eyesalve that their eyes may be opened to the great deception that has led them into their current condition.
This great deception is that they have been deceived into accepting the false god of the trinity in place of the One true God and His Son Jesus Christ. As such they have received the false Christ called "God the Son", who is not in reality the Son of God, but is only a metaphor, meaning not literally true. This false Christ has the outward appearance of the Son of God but is not.
My friend, our whole salvation is based upon receiving everlasting life through Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God. "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life." (1 John 5:11, 12). The trinity presents to us a counterfeit Christ who is not truly the Son of God, and as such it cannot give us true righteousness of heart.
If you are worshiping God as a trinity then you are in the Laodicean condition and as such the message of the Faithful and True Witness of God is to you. Jesus is knocking on the door of your heart today saying "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." (Revelation 3:19, 20).
Won't you open the door of your heart to the true Son of God today?
God bless,
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