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You know, a lot of people try to fake it till they make it.
They try to give the impression that they're one way when they're not that way.
They're not being authentic.
Yeshua challenges the Messianic Synagogue at Laodicea to authenticity, to no longer fake the religious thing, but to be really committed disciples.
This was the lukewarm messianic synagogue that needed an in your face challenge from the Savior, and that's exactly what they got, so that's exactly what we're going to try to give in today's message.
Ha-foke Bah
Ha-foke-bah
Our final messianic synagogue is the Laodicea Messianic Synagogue .
Laodicea was a wealthy city known for three things.
Some miles southeast of Philadelphia, our last city and last church, Laodicea was known for its finance industry, its banking industry.
It would be akin to our common day Wall Street.
It was a very wealthy place to live, work, and raise a family.
It was also known for its fashion industry.
In New York, you would call it the fashion district, where they made fancy clothes that would go out to the retailers to sell to the general public.
Not only was it a financial district and a fashion district, but the city of Laodicea was a pharmaceutical district.
It was known for its medical industry, particularly when it came to eye diseases.
It was specializing in this salve for the eyes to improve the sight of those struggling with seeing.
That is why you will see these three areas, finance, fashion, and pharmaceuticals, referred to in Revelation chapter 3, verses 14 to the end of the chapter.
Yeshua, as he does in each one of these churches, introduces himself as he wants you to see him now.
And he says in Revelation 3:14
So, before he gets into what he wants to say, he wants you to know who's doing the talking.
He says to the messianic synagogue at Laodicea and our congregation today, "I am the amen."
Amen means so be it, it is so, that’s the way it is.
Can't you hear?
Amen means the final word on the subject.
So, when Jesus says, "Listen because the amen is talking," he's basically saying, "I don’t care what anybody else said to you.
I don’t care what other folk told you.
I don’t even care what you're telling yourself.
I am the AMEN.
I am the faithful and true witness.
So, I'm going to give you the testimony."
A witness is a testimony.
"And whatever I tell you is going to be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God.
Something you need to say AMEN to."
And you'll see in a moment why he defines himself this way.
He says, "I am the beginning of the creation of God." Now, if you're the beginning of the creation, that means you existed before the creation that you began.
So, Yeshua the Messiah declares himself to be the pre-creation, existing prior to creation.
That is because he has always existed as the second member of the triune Godhead.
And the one who's responsible for how history operates.
So, what he's saying before he ever gets into what he is saying is, "Pay close attention 'cause I know what I'm talking about.
I am the AMEN, I am the final testimony and witness, and I am the one who existed prior to you even being here."
Having established himself to the messianic synagogue at Laodicea, he now makes his complaint, his condemnation.
He says in verse Rev 3:15-16
He addresses the problem at Laodicea Messianic Synagogue of lukewarmness.
You are lukewarm.
Now, to understand why he is saying this, you have to understand Laodicea's unique location.
On one side of Laodicea the city was Hierapolis, which was akin to Hot Springs, Arkansas.
If you’ve ever been to Hot Springs, Arkansas, you know the heated water that comes up from the earth, the steam that shows up because of the heat, and that water is used for healing and refreshing.
Hierapolis was the Hot Springs, Arkansas of the day, and that hot water flowed down to Laodicea.
Unlike Arkansas the Hot Springs of Hierapolis were said to have healing properties.
But on the other side of Laodicea was the city of Colossae, where we get the book Colossians, and cold water came down from the mountains into Colossia.
Those cold waters were refreshing.
The kind of refreshing cold waters like we have up in Austin in the rivers.
The kind of cold that chills you when you step in because of the Texas summer heart but once you are in, you don’t want to come out.
When the hot water came down from Hierapolis and the cold water came down from Colossae, they met at Laodicea.
And when the hot and cold water met, the water now became lukewarm when it reached Laodicea.
So, Yeshua the Messiah uses this geographical reality to express a spiritual reality operating at Laodicea Messianic Synagogue.
He says, "You are neither hot nor cold."
Yeshua writes this church through its pastor and he says, "You tell them I know about them.
They are neither hot, they don’t offering healing to anyone.
They're not cold, they don’t refresh anyone.
They are lukewarm."
In other words, they are unacceptable, of no real use to anyone in this world.
They don’t bind up the wounded and they don’t refresh the weary.
Yeshua says I would like a Messianic Synagogue that can heal and one that can refresh at the same time but if I can’t have that I would at least like you to be one or the other.
But you are neither and I don’t want lukewarm.
He says their lukewarmness, that is their stagnant spiritual state, their in-between Messianic commitment, their mixture that has made them unusable, unspiritual, is unacceptable.
How unacceptable is it Yeshua?
"I want to spew them out of my mouth."
Notice they “are” currently lukewarm.
I am sure no one thought this of themself.
We never do, do we.
He says because you are currently lukewarm, he uses a rather vulgar expression that has been tamed down in the TLV.
The phrase "to spew out of the mouth" means to vomit chunks.
So, it's possible to be a church that makes Yeshua just sick to his stomach, disgusting to the taste.
We watch this show on Netflix called “Nailed It.” Amateurs like me trying to make professional level cakes based on Instagram recipes, ha, ha.
One guy read the ingredients wrong and put two cups of salt instead of two cups of sugar.
When the judge put the cake in her mouth, it took two seconds and she began gagging and it spewed out on the floor.
Yeshua says, “your ingredients, your lukewarkness” makes me sick like that.
What was it exactly about the Laodicea Messianic Synagogue that made Yeshua sick?
Here's what Jesus says was the problem.
Rev 3:17
He says, "I have a problem with how you view yourself.
You say, 'I am rich, I am self-sufficient.'"
They were measuring the spiritual by the physical.
Let me say that again.
They were measuring the spiritual by how things looked in the physical.
The fact is the physical and the more of it you have camouflages the spiritual.
He says, "Let me tell you what you really are."
Rev 3:17
Second half of verse 17, "You do not know you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked."
The worst thing in the world is to believe folk in your ears who are lying to you and not telling you the truth.
Yeshua says, "I don’t play those games.
I'm going to tell you what I see, and what I see is not good.
I see you playing religion as lukewarm Messianic Jews and Gentiles.
You coming to fellowship, you part of Laodicea Messianic Synagogue, but you're playing games with this thing.
You're not--you're not committed to me.
You're not dedicated to me.
What you're doing is coming to show time at the church."
What do you want me to do Lord?
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