The Laodicea Within
Today’s message, given by old friend and visiting speaker Scott Heitmann, challenges us to be real with ourselves and with God. Scott challenges us that honesty in our weakness is the path to strength.
The Laodicea Within
Today’s message, given by old friend and visiting speaker Scott Heitmann, challenges us to be real with ourselves and with God. Scott challenges us that honesty in our weakness is the path to strength.
This subject of connecting the SDA church with Laodicea has been on my mind so I went to the net and Scott’s sermon came up. This connection would make the majority in the SDA church wretched, miserable people.
Will there be a revival in the church or an end to the church as an organisation like what happened to the Jewish nation?
No human plans or arrangements can cure the church of its coldness and hardness of heart. In the pride of worldly wisdom and worldly ambition to be first, may be found the reason that the work of the gospel, notwithstanding its boundless resources, meets with so little success {21MR 151.2}
God declares that He will spue out of His mouth those who exalt themselves, extolling their own wisdom. They have not in their characters the fragrance of Christ’s character. So well-satisfied are they that they would bind men up with agreements as a remedy for all the evils that exist. {21MR 151.3}
The kingdom of Christ does not and cannot bear any resemblance to the kingdoms of the world. In the kingdom of Christ there is no instrument of coercion. In it force has no place.
But the words and works of these self-exalted ones are disgusting to the self-denying Redeemer. The One who knows all things says to them, “I will not hear thy prayers, neither will I commend thy service.” [Rev. 3:15-19, quoted]. {21MR 151.4}
So how is God going to finish the work?
He will gather from the world a people who will serve Him in righteousness, who will not bind yokes on the necks of their fellow beings, but will break every yoke of human invention. {21MR 152.1}