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God With Us Revelation 3: 18 (NIV) I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.

God With Us • The Laodicean church was blind to its own needs and unwilling to face the truth… • The Laodicean Church was lukewarm – a lukewarm Christian is comfortable, complacent, and does not realize his need. Coffee – hot or cold but not luke warm…

God With Us • The Laodicean church was urged to buy not ordinary gold, but refined gold • Though they had beautiful clothes, they were urged to wear white clothes symbolic of righteousness which would cover their spiritual nakedness.

God With Us • Then Christ exhorted them to put salve. . . on their eyes. • The church at Laodicea is typical of a modern church – quite unconscious of its spiritual needs and content with beautiful buildings and all the material things money can buy. • To all of us is the encouragement to be earnest, and repent.

God With Us • Christ rebuked them because He loved them… John 15: 5 (NIV)“…apart from me you can do nothing. ” • The Laodicean church was independent, self-satisfied, and secure. All the while, their spiritual power had been decaying; their material wealth and glowing statistics were but shrouds hiding a rotting corpse.

God With Us • All the while, their spiritual power had been decaying; their material wealth and glowing statistics were but shrouds hiding something that was rotting. • Their Lord was outside the church, trying to get in • Revelation 3: 20 (NIV) Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.

God With Us IMMANUEL (HEBREW - ‘GOD IS WITH US’ • Isaiah 7: 14 (NIV) Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

God With Us • Matthew 1: 23 (NIV) “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”— which means, “God with us. ” • Matthew 28: 20 (NIV). . . And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. ”

God With Us RESPONDING IN CHRIST… 1. Work Functions – Christ is with us… 2. Parties - Stack it with your Christian friends - Christ is with us 3. Services – here are the invites – several asks is what works - Christ is with us 4. Help someone in need - Christ is with us 5. Christ is with us

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