Okay, while we turn, please, to the book of the Revelation, and let's turn to chapter 3 today. We want to deal today with the final church to whom Yeshua the Messiah wrote to in Revelation chapter 3, remember? We have enjoyed the study in Revelation 2 and 3 which deal with the seven assemblies to whom Yeshua, the Lord, the glorified, the risen Messiah, had been written to. And he was sharing with everyone the concern that he had for every local assembly, local church. And as we have been speaking already before, dear brothers and sisters, every church that he wrote to, he had something to say about. Remember, there were seven churches in Asia Minor, and there were seven local assemblies with seven different conditions.

Every local assemblies. Every local assemblies. Every local assembly had a condition. Like you and I have a condition. Whether it is personal condition. Whether it is the group, the collective aspect condition. There are conditions that existed to whom the Lord want to address. And why? Why he addresses himself to these local assemblies. Because he loved the people of God, and he wanted that his own people will be growing in grace, maturing in the spiritual growth, becoming vessels for his honor and glory. And he wanted that his family. And he wanted that his family. And he wanted that his church, his assembly, will have a healthy condition.

Unfortunately, as we have seen, there were some local churches that have not been in the best healthy condition. But we said that as he is speaking to seven local churches in Asia Minor, he is also speaking to the general condition of the church, of the professing church, beginning with Ephesus, ending with Laodicea. And those seven churches, and those seven churches represent the whole period of church history. And you and I finding ourselves today in that last condition, the church of Laodicea. And I want to read those verses. If you turn to Revelation 3, beginning from verse 14, listen and follow me as I'm reading from verse 14. Here we read: And unto the angel of the church of the Laodicean write: These things say as the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God: I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot; I would that you were cold or hot.

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you, I will vomit you, out of my mouth. Because thou sayest I am rich, and increase with good, and have need of nothing. And he says: Knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked? I counsel thee: 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 eye-selves. That thou mayest see, as many as I love, I rebuke, and I chasten, be zealous, therefore, and repent.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." That's the final church, the final professing church called Laodicean, and as you remember that, we noticed that in our last message together, we began talking about Laodicea, and we noticed immediately that he said unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans.

He doesn't say unto the angel of the church of the city of Laodiceans, but the church of the Laodiceans is a church that belonged to them, not to him. It's their church, if you will. Why? Because the Lord was out. And they were kind of cosily having their own programs, their own things of being done, setting aside the Messiah, the glorified Messiah, the glorified Lord who was in heaven, setting him aside, and establish their own kind of a religious type of activity. You know, to go to a place, no responsibility, no care, no concern about what's going to happen in the future. You go through a religious motion without any reality, no conviction, no burdens, no concern.

Everything is like, you know, it's great, you know, we play church, we play this game, and you see what he's saying to them, it's become their church. You don't find it, by the way, this expression, unto the angel of the church of the Smyrnaans. You don't find this expression unto the angel of the church of the Thyatarians, no. To the angel of the church which is in Thyatira, which is in Smyrna, which is in Sardis. When they come to the Laodiceans, it is their church. The Lord is kind of set aside. They were not any longer setting the things of God before them, the person of the Messiah before them.

He was not reckoned. In a sense, beloved, this church is really representing to us the professing church. Now, I'm sure there is true and false in every condition, in every church. There was always those that are real and those that are not. But here what we see, the major emphasis in here, on those that had the profession without much reality. And that's why, you notice, he tells them about, he gives a description about the Messiah himself. He says to them in verse 14, This thing says the Amen, the faithful, the true witness, the beginning of the creation of God. Now, remember, we have covered this already, but just to re-emphasize this again, the Amen.

In the Hebrew, it's a Hebrew expression, by the way. For many years, I'm sure many of you said Amen, Amen, Amen to every time we pray in wherever you have been. It is a Biblical Hebrew, like the word Hallelujah. It's a Hebrew word. You know, every time we say Hallelujah, we say Hebrew. Halel means praise. Yah means Jehovah, or God. Praise ye the Lord. It's a Hebrew expression. Well, Amen, it is the same thing. He, many times, Yeshua said, truly, truly, I say unto you, Amen, Amen, Omer Anilachem. In other words, he is the true and the faithful one. You know, you remember, when we finish a meeting, we say Amen at the end.

There is a conclusion. There is an ending. No more beyond that. He is the Amen. No one is beyond him. He is the one, the end, the beginning at the end. And when he is expressing such a thing about himself, he says, I am the last word that God had for mankind. The whole book of Hebrews, if you read the book of Hebrews, the book of Hebrews began with this expression that God in these last days spoken unto us in the person of his son. He is the last word that God has for mankind. So he is saying to the Laodicean, I am that Amen.

I am that one that is faithful, the true witness, the beginning of the creation of God, the source of the creation of God. That's who am I. I am faithful. I am going to give you the witness concerning your condition. And I am the beginning of the creation of God or the source. And I said last time, if you remember, there are groups who do not want to accept the divine nature of Yeshua the Messiah. And they want to say he was not God. He was only a God. He was a creature. God created him. They use this expression in verse 14, the beginning of the creation of God, to mean, do you see, he was created.

But no, if you read the text carefully in connection with other passages, you will find out that he is not the beginning in a sense of was created, but he is the source of the creation of God. Even in the Gospel of John, in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. All things were made by him, and without him nothing was made which was made. He was with God right from the beginning. He is the source of the creation of God. Now imagine, he is giving a description about himself, the glorified Messiah, and he is addressing the laodicians who had their own church, where he was set aside.

They find a comfortable condition. They did their own thing. There was nothing to, nobody to give account to. Everybody did that which is right in his own eyes, like the judges among the people of Israel. Every man did that which is right in his own eyes. And so, he says to them in verse 15, he says, you notice he gives them now a condemnation. He is condemning them. He is challenging them. There was nothing good to say about this church, by the way. There is no commendation, but there is condemnation. And so, in verses 15, 16, and 17, he is saying to them, first of all in verse 15, he says, I know your works that you are neither cold nor hot.

I wish, I would, that you were cold or hot. And you remember in our discussion in our last meeting together concerning this passage, we have already said here that there is the indifference of the heart. When you have something cold, there is an effect. When you have something hot, there is an effect. But the lukewarmness represents to us like carelessness. Everything is fine. No responsibility. No accountability. Not to be warm. You know, we just heard from our dear brother concerning the necessity of having compassion for the things of the Lord. Compassion for the need of the people of Israel. Compassion that the Messiah Yeshua had in Matthew chapter 9, where he was, had so much compassion for the nation of Israel who were like sheep having no shepherd.

There was warmth in his heart towards the nation. There was warmth in the two who went to Emmaus in Luke chapter 24 who said after Yeshua spoke to them, did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us on the way? And you remember we read in Matthew chapter 24 that because sin will prevail, the love of many will grow cold. We see the two ends. On the one hand, cold is clear cut. God, I don't want anything for you. I don't want anything from you. Heat, God, I'm burning for you. I want to live for you. But the lukewarmness is neither this way nor this way.

And that's why he's saying to them in verse 16. So then because you are lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. The Greeks suggest here not only spewing, but vomiting. Do you know why we vomit sometimes when we are sick? Because there is something that is not good in our body that we need to throw it out. Because our body is sick and we got to vomit something out because we got to take it out of our system so we can be healthy. And that's why he's telling them because of this condition, he said, I will vomit you out of my mouth.

Now, you can see that the description here that there is an apostate church. Sometimes we do not understand the word apostasy. There is two different falling away. There is a falling away in the sense of stumbling. A believer will fall and stumble and go astray. Like the prodigal son who have gone astray from the father, went to live with the pigs, went to have great time, find himself with the pigs, but he never remained in the pig pen. He was restored. He was a son. He never stopped to be a son. Luke chapter 15. But apostasy is more than just falling away. Apostasy is those who claim to be something that they will really actually never have been.

And then they turn away from what they have claimed in the past to have. It's a person who claimed to be a child of God, but actually never had a personal relationship with Yeshua the Messiah. And then eventually saying, I don't need the Lord. And I remember that we had once in our Hebrew Christian community an individual who was singing the song with everybody, who was sharing the word with everybody, who believed in, said that he believed in the Messiah, that Yeshua is the Messiah. But when time came, he ended up turning completely around. And not only did he stumble, like we all stumble, we all fall, we all sin, but completely turned about and rejected the name of Jesus and said Yeshua is not the Messiah of Israel at all.

I don't need him as my Savior, as my sin bearer. I have another way to receive sins forgiven. I will bring about ingenuity, something on my own. I will invent something to get myself forgiven. Maybe by good works. Maybe by keeping feasts, Shabbat or Sunday keeping, or I don't know what. But I don't need Jesus the Messiah to forgive my sins because I can work my way to please the Lord. Yeah, but once you have accepted him, you realize, you confess that you were sinners and that he is the Messiah. Well, he might have confessed with his mouth, but have never owned it in his heart.

And you know how we know that? We don't know the hearts of none of us. None of us know each other's heart. But the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, know. He knows the heart of every individual. He knows our failure. That's why he died for our sins. He knows we are sinners. We don't surprise him. But he also know if we actually have accepted him as our Lord and Savior. That's what he also know. And you remember what he said in Matthew chapter 7 when he was challenging the early individuals and he was reminding the disciples and he said to them that many in those days will come unto him and say, Lord, Lord, haven't we done these things in your name?

And he said to them, I never knew you. He didn't say, I knew you before and now I don't know you anymore. In other words, you were saved and you got lost. No. He was saying to them, I never knew you. You'll find it in Matthew. You'll find it in chapter 7 of the Gospel of Matthew. Many. Many, he said, not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, verse 21, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. But he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven, many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord. Have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name we have cast out demons?

And in thy name we have done many wonderful works? Then I will profess unto them, I never knew you. Notice that, beloved? The Lord knows our hearts. He knows we are sinful. He knows we are by nature, are defiled, unable to lift ourselves up. But he also knows if we have confessed our sins and says, Lord, I need forgiveness. And it is the blood of Yeshua the Messiah that had been paid for me when he died for me on the tree. He paid the penalty for my sins. He knows that if we have done so. And you see, that's why he's saying to this professing individual in the church of Laodicea, in chapter 3 of Revelation, he says to them, I will spew you out of my mouth.

I will vomit you. I will vomit you out of my mouth. And then he's saying to them in verse 17, because thou sayest I am rich and increase in goods and I have need of nothing. They were saying, I have need of nothing in verse 17. And they don't know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. You see, the church of the Laodiceans said, I am rich. I need nothing. I am pretty good. I am comfortable. They must have been very wealthy. Financially wealthy. And you know what they said? They said, you know what? I don't need anything. Don't bother me. I am pretty well.

I am pretty good. I don't need nothing. But he said to them, you don't know that you are wretched, that you are miserable, you are poor and you are blind and you are naked. Now all this description, miserable, wretched, poor, blind, naked, that is a description of a person who is hopeless and helpless. That was the condition there. They were saying that they were rich and they don't need nothing. Beloved, let me tell you, even the richest man on earth, with all the wealth that he or she may have, one thing they do need beyond their riches. And that is the riches of being associated with a living Savior.

The one who loved us and gave himself for us. It doesn't matter how much we may have. And praise God if he provided for anybody wealth. But David himself, who was very rich, said, when riches increase, set not your heart upon it. God might give some wealth, praise the Lord for that. But if they trust in their riches, in order for salvation, relationship with God, and they said to him, I don't want you in my life. They will end up to find that they are poor and miserable and wretched and naked. Do you know who needs to be clothed? A person that is naked. But not only to be clothed physically, but to be clothed spiritually.

Not only to be clothed with physical garment, but to be clothed with spiritual garment, to be clothed with the garment of salvation. And so, beloved. And notice that now quickly in the next verse. And verse 18 is very precious. Verse 18, 19 and 20. Here is the Lord exhorting the church of Laodiceans. Those, the church that belonged to the Laodiceans. He first telling them in verse 18. He counseled them. You know, the best counsel to get is the counsel to advise that come from God. You know, people give us advice all our life. People tell us their opinion they have counsel to give us. And sometimes we are listening to the counsel of those that give us counsel that is no good.

That's why many of us who are parents saying always to our children, listen, listen to the counsel that I tell you. I love you. I'm telling you something for your benefit. I'm not against you. And a wise son or daughter will listen to the counsel of her mom and dad. If you have brother and sister that love the Lord and counsel you to give you good advice, take it. Take it. Learn from that. Learn from that because it's good to get a healthy and a godly counsel. He is the one, the counselor, the prince. He's giving them counsel. He giving and he sent to them in verse 18.

He says, I want you, I'm counseling you to buy of me gold, which is tried in the fire. Now, wait a minute. They were rich. They had a lot of gold. They had so much. They did not need any gold. But he takes this occasion and he's moving, he's shifting from the physical to the spiritual. From that which is carnal and temporary to that which is eternal. And he's saying to them, I want you, I counsel you to buy of me gold that is tried in the fire. Now, what is gold? You know what gold in the Bible? I was actually this morning reading a little bit in Exodus chapter 25.

In Exodus chapter 25, God, the God of Israel gave our own people instruction of building the tabernacle. And in the tabernacle, beloved brothers and sisters, there was so much gold. The Ark of the Covenant was overlaid with gold within and without. On top of the covenant we have the cherubim on top of the mercy seat was overlaid with gold. Everything was with gold and gold represents to us divine righteousness. That's what gold represents. The righteousness which comes from God, not our own righteousness, not our own justification, but the righteousness which comes with God. The counselor giving us the counsel. The counselor giving us the counsel. He says, you know what?

I want you to buy from me divine righteousness. In other words, that will give you a standing before God divine righteousness. Buy of me gold. And gold, what kind of a gold? Gold that is tried in the fire. Now what is that? That really represents to us the righteousness that the Messiah will give to us which have been tested, which have been already tried. The Messiah have gone through the fire of God's indignation against sin. He was tested and found true. He was tested and be found pure. In Isaiah chapter 55, what earlier we read, we read the appeal of the God of Israel to the people of Israel.

O everyone that is thirsty, come ye to the water. And he that has no money, come and buy and eat. Yea, come buy wine and milk without money and without price. You see, we would come to buy from the Lord something that we actually will give it to us without charge. Buy, he said, but without money. Without price. You don't have to pay an iota. It had been paid for you already. That's the thought that we have here. That's the thought that we have here. He's telling to these Laodiceans, he says, I want you to buy gold which had been tried in the fire. And that speak to us of divine righteousness.

You know what? When we came to Yeshua the Messiah, we came just as we are. We didn't claim anything of our own. We haven't done a thing except receiving the gift of salvation. In fact, we cannot bring anything to the table. The only thing we bring to the table is our sin and sins. That's all. Just as I am without one plea, but that your blood was shed for me, the song goes to say. Just as I am. Confessing that we need him as our Redeemer, as our Savior. And so here he's saying, he's challenging this Laodiceans. I want to give you a counsel. Buy of me gold that is tried in the fire.

Others suggest that gold, the trial of our faith, when we became believers. Like in the Book of Peter, the first Hebrew believers in the Messiah had been suffering. And the Apostle Peter was writing to them, the trial of your faith is much more precious that of gold. Sometimes the believer goes through testing and trials. But even the trial, we don't realize that. No, if we'll vote today on something, we'll all vote on one thing. Lord, don't give me suffering. I don't want suffering. Leave it somewhere else. But sometimes suffering purifying us, helps us in our spiritual life. Humbling us, putting us a little bit where we really belong.

Changing us, molding us, making us a little bit closer to Yeshua. So we can be walking with him in a close relationship and be a blessing to others. So the trial of our faith is much more precious than that of gold. But I would like to suggest here, he's talking to people who only believe us by profession without true reality. And he's saying, you better buy of me gold that is already tried in the fire. And the divine righteousness, it speaks of the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, who has given unto us divine righteousness. But not only this. You see, they were saying that they were rich and they don't need anything.

In the same verse, in verse 18, he's saying to them, he continued, in the same verse, not only to buy gold that is tried in fire that you may be raised, but also white raiment. That you may be clothed. You see, they were naked spiritually. They were naked spiritually. So he's telling them, don't only buy of me gold, but buy of me white raiment. And what does the white raiment really speak to us? The raiment, you remember the story that Yeshua said in the Gospel that he invited people to come to the wedding and everyone that came to the wedding had to have a white garment.

But there was one who didn't have a garment there. He didn't have a white raiment. He was really, he could not celebrate at the party, at the celebration. He couldn't be participating in that wedding. Why? Because he did not have the right clothing. White speaks of purity. The raiment speaks to us about the standing that one will receive when one comes to faith in Yeshua, the Messiah. It was the prophet Isaiah in chapter 61 and verse 10. We read this verse. I'm just going to read it to you. It says, I will greatly rejoice in the Lord. My soul shall be joyful in my God for he had clothed me with the garment of salvation.

He had given me the garment which I could not have. He had clothed me. You see, by the way, Isaiah 61 speak prophetically about the nation. When Israel as the nation will be regarded back to the Lord and they will sing and they will celebrate and they will say, I will greatly rejoice in the Lord because he had clothed me with a garment of salvation. And that's what he's saying here in this chapter as well. Verse 18, he continues and he says, not only to buy gold tested and tried by fire, not only to buy white raiment that you will be able to be clothed. But notice, he continues and anoint your eyes with eye cells that you may be able to see.

He talked about the gold. He talked about the white raiment, but now he's talking about the eye cells. Apparently, beloved, in the city of Laodicea, they have invented some kind of a cream of eye cells that was very helpful for the eyes. Now, what Yeshua does, he takes that very same occasion, very same condition, very same thought. And he says, listen, you need to be able to have spiritual sight, spiritual sight. That's why he's talking about a spiritual discernment. First Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 14, we read the natural man cannot see the things of the Spirit of God. He cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

That's why when we read the Bible and we give it to an unbeliever, the unbeliever have no spiritual appreciation, not understanding of the things of God, because he or she are blind, they need eye cells. They need the anointing of the Spirit of God, which will give them the ability to see spiritually. Why is it that you can sit and talk with another person, with your neighbor or your friend at school or at work or in the neighbor apartment area or your housing area, and he or she has no appreciation of the things of the Lord Jesus the Messiah? Why? Well, they are blind. They cannot see.

You remember what we read in Ephesians 2, that you were dead in trespasses and sins. We ourselves could not see. The eye selves speak to us about spiritual discernment. So he is challenging the Laodicean professing ones. He is challenging. He says, you know, you need to buy of me, number one, gold. Number two, white raiment. Number three, that cream, that ice of the Spirit of God that will indwell in every believer. And you know, by the way, let me make it clear. Every one of us that have accepted Yeshua the Messiah already have the Holy Spirit of God. Come one day and go the next day.

Come one day and go the next day. He is either in or he is not in. We have the Holy Spirit of God indwelling us. John 14:16 says, "He will abide in you forever." So we have the Holy Spirit of God. What makes us qualified to receive the Holy Spirit of God is when we confess our sins, repented, and turned to Yeshua the Messiah, who paid for our sins. Then the Spirit of God coming and indwelling in the believer. And that's why when we gather together here, every one of us who is a believer has the Holy Spirit in him or her. When we leave the building, the Spirit of God is going with all of us individually and collectively.

The Holy Spirit of God is a divine person who is indwelling the believer. But the unbeliever, wherever he or she, the Spirit of God might work upon them or seek to work, enter, to minister to them. But he or she are responsible to respond. So quickly, go move down to the following verses. In verse 19, Yeshua now is saying, "As many as I love, I rebuke and I chasten. Be zealous, therefore, and repent." Why does he say that? Why does he say this? You know why he says this? Because he loved him. John 3:16, we read, we sang this meeting today. God so loved the world. He loves us.

He loves people in this world. So what does he do? He's chastening them. He's dealing with them. He's challenging them. He's bringing them into realization that they need to repent. Repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus the Messiah. As many as I love, I rebuke and I chasten. He says, "Be zealous, therefore, and repent." I'm sure, or at least I hope and I trust, all of us here are believers. And we are all not playing the game of being churchy and like to be a little bit with believers. But we belong to him. But if you haven't, if you haven't, make sure that you forget about all of us.

Just think about you and the Lord. Your eternal relationship with the Lord. That's the gospel. That's the gospel. Unless we repent, unless a person repent, he or she will never see the kingdom of God. Don't make a fool out of yourself one day if you're going to have to stand before the Lord and you tell him, "Listen, I've been at a church meeting or congregational meeting or fellowship meeting. I've sang the songs." And he will tell you, "I never knew you." Make sure that you really belong to the Lord. That you really know him as your Lord and Savior. And now notice what he does in verse 20.

And I think it's very appealing, very precious. In verse 20 he says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." Now you see what happened here? He's not inside at all. He's outside. He's outside and he's standing there. And he's longing to, knocking, longing to come in. He's longing to have fellowship with individuals. He's knocking on the door. He's knocking on the door of hearts. By the way, this is an excellent verse in the preaching of the Gospel. But here he's knocking on the door of both true believers and professing Christians. He's knocking on the door. And he's knocking on the door of our hearts. And he's speaking to us through all kind of situations in our lives.

And that's why he's saying, notice he doesn't say, "I want you all to invite me." No, he's talking to individuals. You notice, "If any men hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him. And I will sup with him and he will sup with me." He's talking to individuals. While it's saying here, "masculine," it can be applied to a feminine. "If any women hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to her and I will sup with her and she with me." The Lord wants to come into the hearts of every individual. The unbeliever, number one, he wants to come to save that person.

But what about us sometimes as believers? The Lord is knocking at the door of our hearts and we have no time for Jesus. "Lord, you see, I have a vacation now. Don't bother me. I gotta go away. I have a good time with me. I don't want you to bother me. Don't make me a religious fanatic. I don't have time for you, you see, Lord. I need you when I have problems, but when I don't, I don't want you to bother my life." Or maybe we don't have time to read the Bible. We say, "Lord, you know, I have a time for many things, but I don't have a time to read your Bible." And you know, this is challenging me because many times, occupation with all kinds of things do not give us enough time to read the word of the Lord.

We are busy, you see. I have responsibility. I have family. I have children. I have job. I have school. I have many things, but no time, Lord. Later on, you know, later on. I'll give you time a little bit later, but not now. Well, the Lord's saying, "No, I want to have fellowship with you. I want to have communication with you. I want to enjoy fellowship. I want to sup." You know what we do when we go to have a meal together? We eat together. We enjoy fellowship. Usually in biblical history, in biblical time, they used to have meals together. It was a time to talk and to share both physically and emotionally and spiritually.

When you sit down around a table, why do we gather our family to sit in a table for supper time? So we can enjoy each other together and talk a little bit. How was your day? What is the situation? How was, oh, you know, I had a rough day today. I had many needs today. We can share. We can tell our problem. We can pray together. And then we read the Word of God and we can hear the Lord speaking to us. "Sup with me, and I with you." If you hear my voice, that's what's appealing to us. I'm telling you, brothers and sisters, the Lord is speaking also to us today.

We have heard earlier from our brother that the Word of God is spread. People are listening or at least are challenged when the Word of God is being spoken and shared. And the heart must be open to the things of the Lord. It's an individual. You cannot do it for me and I cannot do it for you. We cannot do it for husbands and wife at all. We can encourage each other. But it's everyone alone. And yet to be a blessing to the other. To encourage the other. So the others will enjoy the fellowship with the Lord. And so he's standing in the door. He's knocking.

You want to come in. You want to be part of the fellowship, the people individually and collectively. And we pray, beloved, that when we gather here together, there will not be a time that the Lord will not be the center and the object. We want to come, have the Lord before us, have the Word open, have our hearts open to praise Him and to sing to Him. That's the reason of our gathering together in the meeting. And enjoy each other and encourage each other and be a blessing to each other. "To Him that overcome, I will grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I overcame, and I am set with my Father on His throne." You know, right now the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, is sitting on His Father's throne.

He's talking about the millennial age when He's going to sit upon His throne. You read Matthew chapter 25. Then He will sit upon His throne and He will judge all the nations around Him. What's going to happen? Believers will enjoy the millennial age with Yeshua the Messiah. We will reign with Him. We will rule with Him. We will be used by Him in a millennial age, in a messianic age, when Israel restored, and the church with the Lord, and the world under the authority of King of kings and Lord of lords. "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." Notice individual.

"He that hath an ear." We have two ears. And we need the thought here is just to have an ear with a desire to respond to the Word of God. May the Lord help us to respond to what He appealing to us today in these days. So the Laodicean Church represents this present-day condition. Apostasy, professing Christianity, and a lot of things are being set aside. But there are those that He will challenge to listen, to hear His Word, and to submit to Him, to allow Him to come into their hearts. Can you say amen to that?