Laodocia Today

These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:

"I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. 

So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. 

Because you say, 'I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing - and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked - 

I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him and he with Me. To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. 

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'"

Revelation 3:14-22

The last of Jesus' letters to the Churches makes it clear; He is the last word on God's creation. He not only began the 'Church age', but He alone will finish it and He is the true witness. In other words, if you want to understand how the Church is to function, look at the way it began. The Church of Laodocia then didn't listen and today it is just a ruin. Such will be the fate of all churches who do not listen to the true Head of the Church.

Jesus started the Church, and He hasn't changed. All the so-called 'hi-liturgical' forms, church growth programs, seeker friendly schemes, and new 'revelations' that are permeating the Church today are just man's attempt at running a supernatural organism in a natural organized way. Man’s wisdom will always end in fads, ideas and programs that don’t work, and worse than all – that compromise! That is why we now have the world in the church: homosexuals being ordained and married, divorce going through the roof, inviting Muslims into the church in an effort to understand their religion, etc. The Church is no longer ‘salt and light’ and its influence has dulled to the point where the name of Jesus Christ is not tolerated in public settings. The American government is saying “keep your religion inside your churches!” and the church accepts it! The Church began with a supernatural infusion of the Holy Spirit and that is the only way it can work according the divine plan.

What happens in much of the church-world today is like the tower of Babel. Man is trying to build a name for himself; his own way into the heavens. Men think the bigger it is, the better. But God is not interested in big men at the head of big organizations. He is interested in His body, over which He is the head! You can tell a lot about what is important to men by the size of the buildings they erect. We have big bank buildings, big shopping malls, and big church buildings. But, there is no record of Jesus ever erecting a big building for His Church. Instead, He declared, "My kingdom is not of this world." It is not marked by pomp and wealth. The Laodocians had fallen into this trap. They thought their wealth and worldly riches proved their spiritual success. In fact, it proved the opposite! As Jesus saw them, they were poor, blind, and naked.

Numbers are not the measure of success in the kingdom of God, redemption is.

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness.Isaiah 61:10

There are many in today's churches that are not in the Church of Jesus Christ. You don't get into His Church via membership classes, or giving of tithes, but only by having the garments of salvation and the robe of righteousness, which come from God Himself. Only the Holy Spirit can baptize us into the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:13) and that only follows true repentance, for Jesus taught, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." (Matthew 4:17).

John the Baptist warned that true repentance would bring forth fruit worthy of repentance. True repentance produces a changed life. In today's church, there is little repentance, little deliverance, little healing, and even less manifestation of the Holy Spirit. This is Laodocia. The people are as miserable as the world. They are looking for hope and peace, but few find it. The reason is simple. We can't solve our problems with psychology, humanistic platitudes or Christian rituals devoid of spiritual power. Paul warned these days would come –

"For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness by denying its power. And from such people turn away!" - 2 Timothy 3:2-5

While we may think, "I'm not that bad!" If we can be found anywhere on this list, we are on the downward slippery slope that Laodocia was on. Jesus' answer is 'to be zealous and repent.'


Because He loves us, Jesus warns us to buy from Him gold refined in the fire. Today, as the dollar is about to fail and America is about to lose it’s good credit standing, many are advising to buy gold and silver, but that is not the gold Jesus is talking about here. The only way to get this gold is to take up our cross and follow Jesus. It doesn't come cheaply! The only way to get white garments is to embrace righteousness by willfully choosing to live according to Christ's standards rather than the world's standards. This is what Jesus meant when He said to "take up your cross and follow Me" (Mark 8:34). We need our eyes anointed with the healing eye salve that only Jesus gives. Our eye must be 'single' - no double-mindedness! We can't confess one thing on Sunday and live a different way the rest of the week. That means our voting must also reflect who we are!

Like David of old, we must "set no wicked thing before our eyes!" (That means at least 90% of TV and Hollywood must go). That alone will send most modern Christians into cardiac arrest! But to have 'single eyes' we must be committed to ALL Jesus and the Apostles taught not just those truths that we are comfortable with. To those who vote, that means you cannot vote for those who support abortion and still claim to followers of Christ.


The great news is however, that if we take this advice of Jesus, He will come into our lives with revitalizing life! He will bring a new level of intimacy to us that will lift us into the heavens to be seated with God Himself.

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus: - Ephesians 2:4-6

Our Foundations Under Attack

“An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not of the strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.”

This quote was from Patrick Henry spoken in 1775. The following year he also said, 'It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here.'

 Did you know that 52 of the 55 signers of The Declaration of Independence were orthodox, deeply committed Christians? The other three all believed in the Bible as the divine truth, the God of scripture, and His personal intervention.

It is the same congress that formed the American Bible Society. Immediately after creating the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress voted to purchase and import 20,000 copies of scripture for the people of this nation.

King David wrote, “In the LORD I put my trust; How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain"? For look! The wicked bend their bow, They make ready their arrow on the string, That they may shoot secretly at the upright in heart. If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” – Psalm 11:1-3. Now we are faced with the same problem as David faced. Since 1947 Christianity has been gradually removed from public life and influence.

In 1947 the Supreme Court banished the simple prayer, “'Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee. We beg Thy blessings upon us and our parents and our teachers and our country.
Amen.”

In 1963 they ruled that Bible reading in the public schools was unconstitutional saying “portions of the New Testament were read without explanation, they could and have been psychologically harmful to children.”

Although the Bible was quoted 94% of the time by those who wrote the Constitution, somehow in 1965 it was unconstitutional for a student to bow his head in audible prayer for his food!

And then in 1980 the Ten Commandments were outlawed in public schools and other public places. They ruled, “'If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments were to have any effect at all, it would be to induce school children to read them. And if they read them, meditated upon them, and perhaps venerated and observed them, this is not a permissible objective.” It would be terrible in their minds if students actually tried to follow the moral principles enumerated in the Ten Commandments! From their own words, it would appear that their objective is to raise a pagan generation devoid of moral guidelines.

In all this progression of evil, there are some who say, as they did to King David, "Flee as a bird to your mountain". In other words, “keep your faith inside the church walls!” Meanwhile, as the righteous are hidden from society, these ‘wicked’ continue enacting laws and regulations allowing lawlessness forces to destroy the nation God gave us. Moral abominations, such as homosexuality and abortion, are heralded by the media as enlightened growth. False religions such as Islam are allowed to substitute their laws for our national laws that originated from influence of the Bible. And their influence is allowed in the highest levels of our government further weakening our foundations. We need to remember what Patrick Henry, that fierce proponent of liberty, said; 'It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here.’  

The media speak in glowing terms of those who ‘come out of the closet’ and declare publically their homosexual deviant lifestyle. I think it is time for Christians to ‘come out of their closets’ and declare publically that they are Christians and that this nation was founded by Christians and for Christians!

Of course, that would mean we not only live our Christian morals but we also demand the same of our elected leaders! It is obvious that Democrats don’t want Christian morals in their party, so, no Christian should vote for a Democrat!

When Hillary Clinton defends her aid, Huma Abedin, for having strong ties to the terrorist group Muslim Brotherhood thus allowing them an inside view of sensitive government plans, even allowing her aid to influence them, she and the party she represents should be voted out of office. When, Sen. John McCain and Rep. Keith Ellison attack those who want to investigate the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence in our government, they should be replaced, no matter what party they are in.

Our elected officials and the appointees they make exercise real power over us. Therefore, we should demand that they hold to a high standard of morality; like telling the truth, not padding their pockets at our expense, and that they defend our Constitution. Certainly, they should not steal from some of us to aid others for the sake of their votes. Yet this is accepted practice in Washington D.C., partly because we have no news media to alert us to what is happening. Our President claims he is making ‘shovel-ready’ jobs in building bridges and roads in the U.S. yet the contracts are being given to Chinese firms which are hiring Chinese workers. (see http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/us-bridges-roads-built-chinese-firms-14594513?tab=9482930?ion=1206853&playlist=14594944 ).

We are in danger of our foundations being destroyed and we are certainly surrounded by the wicked. But, God is still on the Throne. James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United States, said this: 'We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.' We can pray and then get involved electing officials that will honor the God of the Bible.

Let us remember as King David did, “The Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness; His countenance beholds the upright.” – Psalm 11:7.