The Laodicean Message and Witnessing

1. The message Jesus gives to His last day Laodicean church is vital in order for its members to truly be as effective soul winners as the Lord intends them to be!  The Lord will bless all efforts to share the gospel with others, but the real soul winning power of the latter rain will come upon all those who, while working for souls, also heed the message of the True Witness to the Laodiceans!  Let’s read through this message now.
   
   

2. Revelation 3:14: “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the beginning of the creation of God.”
   
   

3. This message is from Jesus, and it is for the last era of His church of which we are a part!  The True Witness sees things as they really are!
   
   

4. Revelation 3:15-16: “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou were cold or hot.  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of My mouth.”
   
   

5. The Laodiceans are lukewarm.  They are neither cold, nor hot.  They are satisfied in taking the easy road, but the True Witness KNOWS what they need!  He offers them wonderful, FREE heavenly wares, but first He must tell them some badly needed news.
   
   

6. Revelation 3:17: “Because thou saith, ‘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.”
   
   The Laodiceans think they are rich in faith and love.  They don’t feel they need anything in the area of spiritual growth! Rut Jesus says we are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked!  Yet we don’t know it!  So if we deny that this applies to us personally, then it only proves that what Jesus said is true!  We don’t know!  But He does know!  He
   wants us to see our great need, and this applies to the work of soul winning too!
   
   

7. It is wonderful when programs work to win souls, and the Lord blesses serious efforts to share the everlasting gospel with others, but so far we have just touched the tip of the iceberg!  The Lord wants to do so much more!
   
   

8. When we truly understand our condition, and our great need, and go to the heavenly Merchant to buy the wares He has for sale, we will see a work of revival and soul winning like we have never seen before in God’s remnant church!  What are these heavenly wares we need, but don’t know we need? Let’s allow the heavenly Merchant to tell us!
   
   

9. Revelation 3:18: “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.”
   
   

10. The True Witness has counsel for us!  Will we heed it?  He wants us to have the gold of faith and love.  This will make us spiritually rich.  When we have that heaven-sent faith, and agape love, we will be tremendously more effective as soul winners too!
    
    

11. The “white raiment” is Christ’s righteousness.  He alone is our
    righteousness!  When we truly understand this, and repudiate our own righteousness, we will have a deep experience with Calvary love, and we will understand better what it means to be clothed with the garments of Christ’s righteousness!  This experience will give us a deep and satisfying inner joy that cannot be contained -- but must be shared!
    
    

12. The “eyesalve” Jesus refers to is that spiritual discernment that allows us to see our need, and to distinguish holy things from the common and the manufactured.  Brothers and sisters, now, as we are gathered together to begin a work of soul winning, let us go to Jesus in humbleness of heart, and freely buy the heavenly wares He is offering.
    
    

13. Revelation 3:19: “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.”
    
    

14. It is because Jesus loves us that He gives us, His last day church, such strong rebuke.  As many as He loves He chastens. He loves each of us, and He knows what we need.  Let’s buy today what He is selling.  The sale price is FREE!  Let's be zealous for the Lord’s work, and let's repent and ask the Holy Spirit to fill us with His power and grace.  That is how we will
    become HOT for the Lord and His work!
    
    

15. Revelation 3:10: “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 sup with him, and he with Me.”
    
    

16. Let's pray now for the Holy Spirit, and ask the Lord for the heavenly wares!  Let's throw the door wide open for Jesus to enter in!  Let's be zealous and repent!  Let's now pause to pray in groups of two or three.