The Christian Faith
Podcast

Episode #98:
The Seven
Churches (12):
Laodicea,
the Degraded Church
of Christianity
Today

17 July 2024

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This edition of our podcast
is part of our 12-part series,
“The Letters to the
Seven Churches”

The church in Laodicea is the last of the seven churches the Lord addresses in Revelation 2-3, and of all the seven churches, it is the one most severely reproved by the Lord.

The name means “the Judgment of the People,” and it signifies the church as it has become degraded among so many Christians today, with “everyone doing what is right in his own eyes” (Jdg. 21:25). No doubt it is composed of genuine believers who are loved by the Lord (Rev. 3:19), but nonetheless, the Lord tells them,

“You say, I am wealthy and have become rich and have need of nothing! And you do not know you are the wretched one and pitiful and poor and blind and naked.”
— Revelation 3:17

If we are those who desire to follow Christ, we surely need to consider His word to Laodicea for ourselves, so that we do not follow in their footsteps, but who instead become those who are “hot,” even “boiling” (Rev. 3:15) for Christ.

Length: 36 Minutes

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RESOURCES

Books

Watchman Nee
Order Online: The Orthodoxy of the Church
Order Online: The Normal Christian Church Life

Online Resources

Note: “He Will Only Open to Us Then If We Open to Him Today”
Video Testimony of DAC: Video Testimony of DAC: “How I Found the New Testament Fellowship”
Pamphlet: “What Is God’s Purpose for the Church?”
Website for the church of the Chicagoans: ChicagoMeeting.org

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BIBLE VERSES REFERENCED
IN THIS EPISODE

Revelation 2-3: The Lord’s word to the seven churches.
Revelation 3:14-22: The Lord’s word to the church in Laodicea.
Judges 21:25: Where “everyone does what is right in his own eyes.”
Exodus 8:25: “Go, sacrifice in the land!”
Colossians 4:16: Colossae and Laodicea.
Colossians 2:8, 18: Gnosticism and asceticism.
Philippians 3:12-14: The pattern of pursuing according to the apostle.
Matthew 16:24-27: Losing our life in this age to gain it in the next.
Revelation 3:20, Matthew 25:10-12, 22:11-14: Shut out from feasting with the Lord.
Galatians 6:7, 2 Timothy 2:12: Reaping what you sow.

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Recorded…
in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, 16 July 2024

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