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Attributes of Jesus
Knowledge of Jesus
Question- how many times does Jesus say to the churches, “I know your works?” 5 or 7?
Revelation 2:13
Οἶδα ποῦ κατοικεῖς
‘I know where you live, where the throne of Satan is.
And you hold fast to my name and did not deny your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan lives.
Most early witnesses have “I know where you live,” but some later witnesses have “I know your works and where you live.”
The difference with the latter is an explicit claim to knowledge of deeds done by the church at Pergamum.
Spiritual Condition of the Church
What is the major spiritual problem that Jesus is addressing in v. 17?
What is a bigger problem?
Being wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked?
OR NOT REALIZING that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked?
The issue is even worse that simply NOT REALIZING the negative things about yourself.
What is even worse than that?
Thinking that you are rich, and that you are still rich- you prosper, and that you have need of nothing!
Why is that worse?
Illustration: This is like an NFL player who throws the ball away in celebration before he crosses the goal line.
He celebrates, his team celebrates- but the defense picks up the ball and runs it back the other way.
What kind of riches are we talking about?
Physical or spiritual?
What kind of state of mind does v. 17 produce in a church?
Contented complacency!
Whatever the people’s condition, they were happy with it and regarded it highly.
The Lord’s subsequent picture of reality points to a false self-sufficiency based on wrong attitudes and a wrong interpretation of the facts (Swete; Moffatt; Walvoord).
What is the first major step to remedying this problem?
They must fix the problem of their ignorance!
Here was a church, rich in pride but poor in grace and ignorant of the poverty.
What adjectives does Jesus use to describe the true condition of the church?
Wretched- of very poor quality or condition / pathetic.
Used one other time in the NT
What is the major difference between Paul and the church of Laodicea?
Paul knew he was wretched.
Pitiable- miserable.
Used one other time in the NT.
Poor- Ptōchos (“poor”), an adjective, is derived from πτώσσω (ptōssō), which names the action of one who crouches and cowers as a beggar.
The idea is that of beggarliness or destitution that results from begging.
What did the church think of itself?
It was rich- but Jesus says your are in a state of beggarliness.
Blind- Spiritual blindness!
Written to a city famous for producing eye medications, its reference here is to an inability to see spiritual values (Trench; Beckwith; Walvoord).
Naked- spiritually naked!
What does that mean?
Salvation is often pictured in Revelation as being clothed.
The Importance of Self-Evaluation
How do we avoid being the the church of Laodicea?
We might not be pharisees who think we are saved, but are not.
But what if we look around at our church and we say-
“We are a pretty good church!”
“We are not like a lot of other wordly churches out there!”
What do we mean by that?
What criteria do we use to make the statement we are good church, we are not a wordly church?
But what if we are just like the Laodiceans?
We think we are rich, we think we are prospering, we think we need nothing, when in reality we are the exact opposite!
How can we really know?
What criteria should we be using to take an accurate self-evaluation of our church?
What would be a good tool that everyone in the church could use to take their spiritual temperature?
Church mission statement!
Faith Baptist Church exists to equip and inspire believers for Christlikeness unto the abundance of the glory of God.
How are you accomplishing the mission statement of the church personally?
Are you involved in church related ministry?
Is that ministry accomplishing our mission statement?
How can you change if necessary?
Jesus’ Offer of Help
The idea to buy is used three times in this text-
Buy gold, buy white garments, and buy eye salve.
What is the problem with Jesus counsel to buy these things?
What did he just say about their spiritual state in the last verse?
They are beggars!
Jesus is telling them to buy things they cannot afford!
What is the solution?
GRACE!
But the way this is the same grace we will need if we are to be successful as a church!
What does Jesus counsel this church to buy?
Gold refined by fire?
What is that?
High quality faith!
Why did they need to buy gold?
They currently are beggars and Jesus will make them rich!
What else did they need to buy? White garments- the very righteousness of Christ
Why? clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness many not be seen
What else did they need to buy? Salve to anoint their eyes.
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