I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, and that the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest; and eyesalve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.
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… You do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. Therefore, I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich and white robes to clothe yourself and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent. Listen, I am standing at the door knocking. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and eat with you and you with me. And now let us pivot to consider counsel offered by the Apostle Paul to the church in Philippi. Before reading this text, I want to point out that the word gentleness that appears early in this passage can also be translated as forbearance or moderation. Listen now for God's word as it echoes to us from Philippians chapter 4, beginning with the fourth verse. Rejoice in the Lord always again. I will say rejoice. …
… description if ever I read one. And I advise you to buy from Me gold, that you may become rich, and white garments that you may clothe yourself, and the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed. An eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. He's playing off three of the most important industries in Laodicea, mining for gold, the the wool industry, and some kind of eye salve. And he's saying, you need a different kind of gold. You need a different garment, and you need a different salve. One that will produce righteousness and spiritual sight. Verse 19, those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, therefore be zealous and repent. The Lord expresses even love for this church, calls on them to repent. And then verse 20 is such an important verse because it's quoted so often. It's not about a personal experience where Jesus is knocking on the door of your heart. This is Jesus knocking on the door of the church at Laodicea because He's not in there. …
… not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments, so that you may clothe yourself, and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline So be zealous and repent Behold, I stand at the door and knock If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into him and eat with him and he with me The one who conquers I will grant him to sit with me on my throne As I also conquered and sat down with my father on his throne He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. Thank you. After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, Come up here and I will show you what must take place after this. …
… is what is the symptom of this condition? And the symptom is in verse 15 and 16. I know your deeds that you are neither hot nor cold. Now, that's always kind of inappropriate at the Westside evening service in the summertime because there's nobody here, nobody who's cold. But, you know, you're going to have to get beyond the literalness here and understand what he's saying, lukewarmness, spiritually speaking, neither hot nor cold, tepidness is what Jesus is talking about. Now, what is that? What is spiritual lukewarmness? It's contrasted down in verse 19 with a word that's one of the remedies. We'll get to that later. But the remedy that Jesus lays out here is earnestness. See, down in verse 19, he says, you lukewarm people be earnest. Now, what is that? That's the opposite of lukewarm. And if we understand the word, we'll understand what it means to be lukewarm. What is earnestness? It's the Greek word zealos, zealous. Our word zealous is the Greek word zealos that's used here, that's translated earnestness. Therefore, a lukewarm Christian is a Christian without zeal for God. So what is that? …