Confession and Repentance

Colossians 2:18-19

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This morning, we continue to direct your attention to Colossians 2:18-19, "The Error of Angelic Worship," segment number 24.

The Word of God is a great prize, and it is the true wealth of the individual believer. It is always gratifying to find that the people of God who are in touch with this ministry, in one way or another, have a sense of receiving something special – something out of the ordinary, when they listen to what is said from the sermonic material – the exposition of the Word of God. This was demonstrated again yesterday, when that magnificent choral group sang for us right out of the Meyers Musical Center (quality people). Kevin Guess is very appreciative person. And you saw how big it is. When he hugs you, "you done been hugged." One family came up and said, "We are grateful for what we get from Berean Church. We live 65 miles away, but we're in touch with the Word of God."

Another family who was here lives at a distance now. After the banquet, the husband said to me, "We've been getting some of the unedited tapes on the current series in Colossians, and we have been reminded again about the church in Laodicea." And the point that is so important about this church is that it did have a lamp stand. It was one of the seven lessons where Jesus stood and said, "You are one of My churches. And if you do not remain faithful to Me, I'm going to shut you down. I'm going to take your lamp stand, and knock it over." And for some of these churches, that did happen. But the point of that is that Laodicea was also one of the genuine churches of Christ. The problem was that there were deep in the carnality.

So, this man said, "Last Sunday, our preacher got up, and he talked about the Laodicean Church, and how these unsaved people needed to come to the knowledge of Christ." So, after the service, we went up to him and his wife, and said, "The Laodiceans were not unsaved people. They were Christians out of fellowship with God. That was the reason that Christ was standing knocking at the heart's door, and saying, 'Come on back. Open it up to Me. Let Me back into your life.' And they were not unbelievers." Well, here was this seminary graduate saying, "No, you're wrong. Those are unbelievers."

So, don't take it too lightly when you get the great perspective on the Word of God that is really the truth. We went through several writers, and people like Dr. Walvoord from the seminary. We said, "All these men are great scholars of the Word of God, and they all uniformly say that that church was made up of Christians, but they were out of touch." Well, the man wasn't phased.

So, your congregation will be colored by what comes out of the pulpit. And if it is false, you will be affected. If it is triviality, you will be affected. If it is baby stuff, or salvation gospel truth, you will be affected, not only now, but the worst way you'll be affected is at the Judgment Seat of Christ. There you'll have cause to realize that you never grasped what life is all about as a Christian. So, you never got around to your mission, and your life has been wasted. We do not want that to happen to you.

So, we remind you that this church in the city of Laodicea, recorded for us in Revelation 3:14-22, was a genuine church of the Lord Jesus Christ. It had people who were born-again. But it is an example of church-age believers who had been robbed of the prize which accompanies salvation, that is spoken of in Galatians 2:18. When you get the package of salvation, there's a great prize. It's like when you buy a box of Cracker Jacks. The only important thing is what the prize is at the top of the box. That's what you tear open to find. It comes with the package. Well, when you have the package of salvation, there's a great prize. These people lost it. And every one of us, as Christians, is under the gun of having that thing taken from us, because that's the main purpose of Satan toward you.

A Prize

The church age spiritual power system for living a holy life, and for divine good works to store treasures of rewards in heaven – that's the prize which comes with the salvation package. The Jewish people never could really live a holy life. It all depended on themselves. And their sin nature kept tripping them up. They had no power from God to do what was right. Well, they knew what the right was, but they couldn't beat the game. And to serve God, there was no Holy Spirit power. There was no Holy Spirit enablement, because the Holy Spirit did not indwell them. He would come upon them periodically, and then He would leave them for certain purposes. But it was so different than what it is today. It is a real prize to be able to walk like God, and to be able to be the holiness of God Himself, because He does it for us.

Church-age believers have God's power through the filling of the Holy Spirit to do the morally right thing, and to obey the will of God in their life mission in Christian service. We have no excuse to be poor people in heaven – devoid of treasures of rewards.

Galatians 5:16: "But I say walk by means of the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh (the sin nature)." You could not say that to a Jew in the Old Testament Mosaic Law system. You couldn't say to him, "Walk by the Spirit." He didn't have the Holy Spirit in him to be guiding him. He didn't have what he needed to beat the sin nature. But that is true for you and for me.

In Ephesians 2:10, we have our mission: "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Those good works is our life mission. Colossians 1:9-12: "For this reason, also, since the day we heard of it, their love in the Holy Spirit, we have not ceased to pray for you, and to ask that you might be filled with the knowledge – the 'epignosis," by the way – the full knowledge that is doctrinal truth, that you said, "Amen" to: "I will choose to do it. As we pointed out, these magnificent titles at the banquet that certain people had, because they went with the Word: "That you would be filled with the full knowledge of His will, and all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit and every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God again (increasing with the doctrine stored in your human spirit), strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, attaining attaining of all steadfastness, and patience, and joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light." He's talking about the prize – to share in the prize of the inheritance of grace.

One more: Ephesians 5:15-16: "Therefore, be careful how you walk – not as unwise men, but as wise, making the most of your time because the days are evil." You can enjoy the prize of the spiritual power, or you can ignore it, and waste your whole life – a life lived in a devil's world, based on self-effort and sincere good intentions, as was the case under the Mosaic Law way of life. It has no divine power enablement to succeed. It only tells us what ought to be. There is no doubt that the Mosaic Law says that this is the way it should be. But it did not enable you to do it. The sin nature of the flesh always undermined it.

Romans 8:3-4 points that out: "What the Law (the Mosaic Law) could not do, as it was through the flesh (the sin nature), God did, sending His Own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the requirements of the Law (what the Law said ought to be, might be fulfilled in us (we Christians), who do not walk according to the sin nature, but according to the Holy Spirit." We could do what they could not.

Now, the spiritual prize (the power prize) of Colossians 2:18 is a result of being placed into Christ by the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which every believer experiences at the point of salvation. Colossians 12:13 points this out: "By one Holy Spirit, we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free; and, were all made to drink of one Spirit – all filled with the Spirit.

Now, this is our position in Christ, This is our potential prize. The benefits of it is turned on and off by carnality. The Mosaic Law system and the church-age grace system are opposite lifestyles for the people of God. Law brings spiritual defeat. Grace brings spiritual victory. Christians who fall into a carnal lifestyle governed by the sin nature, fall into spiritual revisionism, and they become victims of the sin nature of the world system and of Satan. That was the condition of the Laodiceans.

1 Peter 5:8-9 says, "Be of sober spirit. Be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour, but resist Him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world." Satan is always out to trip you up. Oh, he's not going to drag many of you into gross sin. You're not that type. That wouldn't appeal to you. But he can really pull you down by getting you tied up with the trivialities of life, and you forget your orientation to have your eyes on Christ and the things above. That's where he'll get you. And pretty soon, you will drift off into the world system. But you are not his slave. You enable him to bring you down. Be of a sober spirit, on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, is looking for a chance. If you don't give him a chance, He cannot bring you down. He's a prowling lion. And resists him." God would not tell you to resist the devil if you couldn't.

In the Old Testament, that was a problem. Be firm in your faith, and firm in your confidence, in the principles of the Word of God. And while Christians suffer (you betcha), there is a stride that one can hit, and that's suffering, and that's the way it should be.

Compare this to James 4:7. James says, "Submit, therefore, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." You are not a victim of Satan. You choose to go with it. The Christians in the Laodicean Church were lukewarm. They were indifferent to separation from the lifestyle of Satan's world. And they were indifferent to investing their lives in God's services as witnesses, and as stewards – stewards of the material treasures that he had entrusted to them. They were entirely self-oriented. They did not have their eyes on the Lord Jesus Christ as the "amen;" the faithful witness; and, the Creator in the Godhead.

The Laodicean believers were a country club church who thought more highly of themselves than they should have. It was all based on their wealth, and all based on their social standing, and all based upon the power that they exercised over other people in the community. And they thought that that made them something special with God. But their blind, lukewarm indifference to godly living, and the Christian service, made these Christians nauseating to God the Father, who promised to vomit them out of His blessings, and to discipline them. The view the Laodiceans themselves was that they were rich, wealthy, and in need of nothing. That was human viewpoint. But the view of the Lord Jesus Christ to them was that they were wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. That was divine viewpoint.

Satan will trip you up if you think more highly of yourself than you ought to. The advice of Jesus Christ, to the spiritually disoriented Laodiceans was to buy certain things from Him, to correct their spiritual revisionism and shameful appearance. And the money with which they would buy these things from Christ was faith in the Word of God – believing what He was telling them.

Gold

First of all, he told them to: "Buy gold – the gold of church-age doctrine, as wisdom purified by the holiness of God, so they could become truly rich." Revelation 3:18: "I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire, by the holiness of God." What is He telling them? Where are you going to buy this gold? Where are you going to go to buy the gold of doctrine? Church-age realities – you're going to attend an expository preaching ministry. There you will find the mind of God. That's how you buy the gold of divine viewpoint.

Please remember this: It is amazing how many Christians never understand this. Any material well, which a Christian possesses, is not genuine riches, if he cannot take it with him to heaven when he dies. Whatever wealth you have, and whatever possessions you have, they are not wealth unless you can take it to heaven. No matter how big your bank account, and no matter how big your investment reserves, it isn't riches. It's not wealth unless you can take it to heaven with you. That is because if you can't take it to heaven, Peter says that all these things are going to be burned up, and turned back into the elements out of which they were made. Now, that's an important point. If you learn that this morning it was worth coming to church. Never look upon what you have, and say, "I'm well off." No, you're not. You're only well off if you can take that to heaven with you. Obviously, that has to be a transition of those material things as storage treasures in heaven.

These possessions are all that you have. And this wealth is nothing but possessions unless you can take it with you. Luke 12:15-21 is a very classic example of not being able to take it with you: "Jesus said, 'Beware, and be on your guard, against every form of greed. For not even when one has an abundance, does his life consist in his possessions.'" That's true. Your wealth is not what you have, unless you're going to take it to heaven. And you have to convert it into a form that you can take it with you. It is foolish to have the opportunity to take great wealth, and not convert it.

Verse 16: "And Jesus told them a parable, saying, "The land of a certain rich man was very productive. He began reasoning to himself: 'What shall I do since I have no place to store my crops?." Her said, "I have so much. I'm so wealthy. This is what I will do. I'll tear down my barns, and build larger ones. And there I will store all my grain and my goods." This poor man operated on the principle of "get what you can, and can all you get." The result was that it never occurred to him: "Man, I can't even stuff the things I have into the barns I have. I can't even store my wealth anymore. I can hardly keep up with all the money I have. I have every box at home stuffed, and every safe deposit box in the bank is stuffed. My assets are enormous."

It never occurred to this man that Israel is filled with poor people. Israel is filled with widows and orphans. Israel is filled with people that you can now help in a tremendous way. It never occurred to him to say, "I will contact the authorities, and have them take all this surplus, and take care, in this theocracy in which we live, of those who are poor." For indeed, that's what Jesus said: that the widows, and orphans, and the poor should be cared for. He could have done it, because it's not a socialist system where the government does it. It's the individual believer that does it. It never occurred to this man to say to the priesthood, "I have more than enough. You priests and you Levites – you have no land. You can't earn anything. All the other tribes have a plot of land. And every family has an assigned land. And if they sell it, 50 years down the line, in the year of Jubilee, their heirs, whoever is alive at time, get the land all back. It goes back into the family possession. So, you can never sell your land beyond that 50 year period, the year of Jubilee. How much is your land is worth? You look at the calendar, and you say, "Oh, it's just two years till Jubilee. Then I have to give this land back to the original family," and you don't get paid for it. You just give it back. So, you say, "I'll pay you this much, because I can only use it for 2 years."

Well, this man could have said, "I want to help the priesthood. The priests have families. The priests would like to have some good things in their lives. They get things from the sacrifices. They do get to use the animals which are being sacrificed. God has provided for them, but they are in the service of God, and the care of our temple. Take my surplus. Let's make the ministry there better, as we operate with the facilities. Why should I build something better for myself when our religious facilities need some improvement and care? He didn't do that.

Verse 19: "I'll say to my soul, 'Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come: take your ease; eat; drink; and, be merry.' But God said to him, 'You fool, this very night your soul is required of you, and now who will own what you have prepared?'" He could have taken the whole crops with him, had he done the first thing I said – had he put it in God's work, and had he put it in the service of the Lord. He didn't do that.

So, the question was: "Tonight, you're going to die. Now who is going to have all these crops? You're not rich. If you could take all these crops with you, because you had put them into God's work, you really would be rich in heaven. So is the man who lays up treasures for himself, and is not rich toward God."

Luke 12:31: "But seek for His Kingdom, and these things will be added to you."

Then there's another sobering passage, and it's Matthew 6:19-21: "Buy the gold," Jesus says to the Laodiceans. They had the wealth. They were like the rich man. They had everything, but they didn't know how to take it with them. Matthew 6:19-21: "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroy, and where thieves do not break in or steal. For where your treasure is (your love), that's where your heart will be:" "Where your treasure is (my treasure is in heaven), and that's what I'm going to convert my material goods by putting them into the service of God, and sending them up ahead." Yes, you can take it with you, but you have to convert it into the proper transmitting form to begin with.

So, here Jesus is telling him to do a very practical thing, take the gold of the Word of God that you have. You have grace salvation. You have potential a great power system. This has been this prize you have lost by your carnality. Get back to buying the preciousness of the reality of the Word of God. Stop doing other things on Sunday and get out to the church services and and receive the gold of church age truth. The advice of Jesus Christ continues now to the latest science of how to conduct and how to correct the nausea's condition when the second thing that they should do, first of all, set by the goal. Secondly, they need to buy White Rayment. The money for this again is believing the Word of God, believing church age doctrinal principles there to buy white garment. White is the color of purity holiness. Malaysians are to secure something which is holy. Oh, they got plenty of garments. They got plenty of the latest fashions that they're wearing. But those are not holy garments. They're just things. What they are to receive, he says, "Are the garments. This refers to this Greek word tells us a little more about the kind of garment it's called the High MacKean H. I am Apptio N and that means the metal that's thrown over the undergarments. It is what people see. It is that which in the artisans are to secure a holy garment that people will see and they're to buy this from the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a spiritual covering and wine. Well, he's there to buy this. He says, "This particular holy garment so that they may clothe themselves in the word clothing. So, just a little more about the style of this garment is called appear rebelo. Petit means around means to throw. So, it means something to cast around yourself like a tape. Jesus Christ declares that the latest scenes, we're naked. All they had was their underwear. They thought they were fashion plates, jeans, saw the ladies in Christians and their true condition of spiritual nakedness. That's what counts in eternity. So, while people might be impressed with how stylish you are every Sunday, they see that God is not impressed with the garments that he sees that are really significant. Your spiritual covering revelation. 19, Rosie has a very important point about these garments, Revelation 19:8 says, "And it was given to her, to the church, to the individual believers of the church age to clothe herself and find linen bright and clean. Holiness of God for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Pearl, it is the righteousness of the Saints, so there's the material out of which you make your garment that you're going to show up in heaven, the garment will be made out of your divine good service, your acts of righteousness and fulfilling your mission. That is what will make up the garment that you are clothed with a lifestyle of godliness, personal sanctification. That's the material out of which you cut the garment. Divine good works produced by the Holy Spirit to fulfill Ephesians to mission. That's what you make the garments out of. So, when he says, "To buy this special garment, they only garment that you could throw about yourself to cover yourself so that you're not standing there just in the undergarments, a garment that you may clothe yourself. This white because it is the holiness of God. It's not always carnality things that dress. This is the godly things. That's what dresses us. you know that we pointed out that Leotta Sia was a city that was known for its Blackwall special kind of she had a lovely black wall, like black woolen cloth was desired all over the empire. It was symbolic here of the carnal lifestyle of the congregation. We ought to see it. But the leotta of sins viewed themselves as good Christians and that they looked really good instead of the white garments of divine righteousness, which is the only garment that you can wear in heaven. In daily living. They wore the black garments of the smug, self-centered carnality of the world system. They had religion, but they did not have a relationship with Christ. It is a terrible thing then, for a believer to be insensitive or indifferent to his own evil ways, because that's the garment that you're making for yourself and the eyes of the Lord Jesus Christ. They were dressed in Isaiah 60:4 or 6 that are just filthy rags, the latest. Christians therefore are to repent of their reversionism, then clothe themselves in a sanctified lifestyle and just pay a little attention, for heaven's sakes, to the service to God that you can perform. Pay a little attention to meditation upon reading the Word of God, pay a little attention to having fellowship with Christians. So, you're not walking around rubbing shoulders all the time with a world system and all the crummy depressive degroot dating qualities that that imposes on you. That's why the bright banquet Friday night was so magnificent and people came from such a distance because the fellowship to step aside and be in the presence of the godliness of people in this terrible evil age who understand where the world where history is going and helps keep our head screwed on straight. If you don't think that's true, I think you're going to find that was a very bad mistake to see. Christians are to repent and to confess. They get back on track in their service. They're to buy sanctification in the middle voices. Whether that means they do it for themselves, but it's subjunctive mode means they might do they might not do it. A lot of Christians don't care about designing a garment of righteousness. Why do you want this kind of garment? Well, first:18, so that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed. The idea is the same. This word connotes humiliation. The layout of science found is a hard word to impose upon them. They were proud in their arrogance of their carnality, when in fact they stood in a position of humiliation. They weren't they weren't ashamed of everything. They they felt that they were just great people. But when God looked at them, Lord Jesus Christ, say you're all glumness. Do you, unless you're all naked, this is weird word, no clothing, public nudity, by God centered is a shameful thing. You may read about this in Genesis 9:20-30 in Genesis 9:22:23, where Noah became drunk and lay there naked in his tent and His Son had made fun of the woman, the other 2 sons. No, that's a shameful thing. We should not treat our father with that disrespect. The boys 2 boys took and put a robe over their backs and they went in backwards and covered their father as he lay there. So, they did not view him in his shameful nudity. Our people shame the nudity in our society. They are not likely. They think it's really cute and cool. Well, this is what Jesus said to these people. I mean, they had everything in life to sense and they were born again people. He said to them, spiritually, you're naked and public nudity after the fall. And it became a major factor to our day, which has led to sexual immorality. Public nudity leads to that. This word is sometimes used to describe one who's only wearing his undergarments. This is an interesting thing. The word nudity is also for just being in your undergarments, which is near nudity. John 21 for 7. This word is use. The disciples have been fishing and Jesus comes along. They recognize him then that disciple therefore whom Jesus loved, that is John said to his friend Peter at the man who was talking to them on the shore, It's the Lord. So, when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his outer garment on, for he was stripped for work, or he was nude in the same Greek word and he threw himself into the sea. He had stripped down to his underwear to work hauling in the in the fish. So, he puts on his outer garment, jumps in the water so he could swim to shore to the Lord. The ladies in cushions were therefore walking around in their spiritual underwear. Spiritual underwear is salvation. By the grace of God, they didn't have that righteousness. But the garment that they were going to cover themselves with was their own works of divine good righteousness. They had the covering of salvation, righteousness, but they had no experience of sanctification covering. When you get up to heaven, it is going to be that way. A lot of Christian going to be walking around in their underwear of their salvation. That's great. You need that righteousness. But the rewarded ones will be walking around with magnificent garments that have been the product of their faithfulness in their divine good service. It is a shameful sight to see a Christian walking about without the clothing of experience of sanctification. It is not a nice sight and we see that happen all the time at all age levels and all of a sudden some Christian gets into deep trouble. He can be a youth, he can be an adult. It's always because he has permitted a hole or his his experience until sanctification become shredded. So, he's walking around in the undergarment of salvation. He's covered with it, but he has no experiential sanctification out of which to make a holy garment to walk before the Lord. So, garment is important now when some Christian stumbles and is tripped up by Satan because he is not in the right uniform of the day. If you have been in the military service, you know what it means to have the word passed out, the uniform of the day, the uniform of the day. When is posted by having you better wear that uniform that is the accepted clothing, nothing else. It is like that with God. You talk about experience or sanctification garments that you will take to heaven. And you build that experience of sanctification, garment, what you do with your material things. That's the connection. So, don't be too quick to say, oh, sure. I've I've got experience of garments. I love that good good works material. Not too fast. You better be very careful about how much your eyes are on things below and not on the things that God has for you to do. Nice and Sapphira, classic example to people who say no experiential garments or sanctification, just the just the undergarments grace salvation. Here we do this. It says, "So, that your lack of covering would not be revealed. The Greek word is fundido. An e r o font means manifest of the public view and our garments of righteousness indicate our true character. But they are decisions that are being warned that are in the undergarments of salvation, righteousness. But they are spiritually naked in their outer garments of righteousness and God's service. This is a passive condition. They can say there's something they're not. They can't pretend that there's something they're not. It is something that they cannot hide. But it is, again, that subjective food. You choose to do it or you ignore it. What a sight to see Christians going in the Lord's presence and nothing but their spiritual undergarments at the Judgment Seat of Christ personal sanctification. That was the clothing, the delay, Oddisee intellect. Jesus said that's a very, very shameful condition. And it is one which they simply were not sensitive. Then he said, you need to buy one thing more for me. You need some icemen to anoint your eyes so that you may see these these people were spiritually blind as a bat at Laticia Christians but blind. He said, you need to buy from me. Also buy your positive Omeish to the Word of God. I said so that you can anoint your eyes or to anoint looks like this angry old e.g. The age are old and frail means to rub in the B smear and a something that will heal spiritual blindness to medication for spiritual blindness. There was a very serious problem in the ancient world with eyes. We suspect that one of the reasons the apostle Paul and one of his letters did with what large handwriting I write this, we suspect that that was one of the things that was a problem for him. He has physical problems and eyesight was one of them. Here it is. The these people need to have something to anoint their eyes so that their spiritual sight would be brought into focus. Their eyes, the physical organs were used for spiritual vision in a symbolic sense. They had eyes to see on the earth, but they were missing the realities of spiritual things. This concept of being able to see spiritual things is in. First is in the Ephesians one known as:17:18, Ephesians one 17:18 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and a revelation in the knowledge of him. Full knowledge again, that I pray that the eyes of your heart, the eyes of your mentality, may be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of this calling and what are the riches, the prize of the glory of his inheritance in the seats. You don't have this. You have an appreciation for what you have in the package of salvation. This word. This word. Thank you. This word that is to anoint the eyes is also used in Matthew 13, 15, Matthew 13, 15 heads for the heart of the people has become dull and with their ears they scarcely hear and they have closed their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and return. I should Hilman Fugo spiritually blind. You're in a very bad condition. The consequences of lacking eyes of spiritual inside are eternal in nature. As a result, you're not having a garment of experience and righteousness to wear and you will not have the rewards in heaven. What does it take? It takes what he calls. I say this was made sort of like a lipstick. It was a formula was compacted into a little roll and it was called Accordionists is a medical word. Oh, you are my own. Korean refers to a cylindrical shape and the background of the words comes from the what was called the TEFRA Phrygia. This was a medical product. It was an eye powder which was developed in the Odyssey in medical school, for they had a medical school there. This eye powder was very popular because of the problem that people had with eye infections in very unsanitary conditions often. So, this powder was mixed with the grease or oil, and then it was rolled into a tight little cylinder like a lipstick. Then it was applied to the eyes of the Lord Jesus Christ had this medication for their eyes so that their spiritual discernment will come back. The latest Ephesians have been blinded by carnality and their eyesight will come back when the Word of God is applied. Is this real? Is real. This is not just inspirational talk. It is for real. So, there we are, these people we thought they were everything because they headwall and they did. They had their eyes on things below and they had status in the community and they had good clothes and they could go to any restaurant they wanted and they thought that God was blessing them. Jesus said all you are you think you're a fashion plate, but you're walking around spiritual underwear of righteousness, of salvation, but you have no garment to cover that up. So, I advise you to do this. Three things you need to buy from me to get back out of your version isn't gold. That is the Word of God refined by the ambitions of God. Then you'll be a rich person and white garments so that you may call yourself the shame of your nakedness would be in your righteousness is your godly life and your Christian service. I said to anoint your eyes. Confession of known sins and positive addition to the Word of God. So, as you can see the truth, you can see yourself as you are there going to be multiplied numbers of people. I can guarantee you that the Judgment Seat of Christ who will wonder what ever possessed them to miss the point when they said here in Green church and they heard these things laid out from the Word of God and the order of things, they say, yeah, that's nice, but not for me. You cannot have a foot in God's camp and a foot in the world can forget it. You're a fool to think that the world's camp will always win out. That's what happened in the odyssey of Christians going to heaven. Yes, but all they had was the garment of the God gave them of absolute righteousness and how they dressed themselves in their spiritual service. Nothing. That's why there will be tears in heaven that Jesus will have to wipe away. You want to cry then?

Dr. John E. Danish, 1995

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