It's Time - Christ Our Riches
CHRIST OUR RICHES – REVELATION 3:14-22
Riches - What does it really mean to be rich? To win the National Lottery? Would you like to find riches that last for ever? He that has ears let him hear what the Spirit is saying tonight!
Laodicea - A letter to the church in Laodicea – a 50 year old church where the good ground had become the thorny ground - the good seed choked by “life’s worries, riches and pleasures” (Luke 8:15)
Background - a wealthy city famous for clothing, eye ointment, banking – they needed nothing. They were self-sufficient.
Jesus verdict on the church – its true spiritual condition. V17.
- Lukewarm – like the lukewarm water that ran into the city from the hills
- Poor, wretched, blind and naked – in a dreadful spiritual condition
- Deceived and deluded - no realisation of their need for Christ – thought all was well. The spirit of the city had taken over the church.
Material wealth and physical pleasures have been a rival to God since the Garden of Eden - don’t make God’s gifts into an idol that replaces God.
