Laodicea was so distracted by everything else that they had become bland and useless to God. Jesus says that rather than being hot, on fire for Christ, or cold, like a refreshing drink of water to those who are perishing, the church at Laodicea had become lukewarm and useless. And Jesus wanted to vomit them out of His mouth. God’s solution? As always, repent.
They had neglected for so long what they needed for their spiritual souls, because they were so distracted by their materialistic pursuits of pleasure that they had become un-needing of Christ. And Jesus says they have allowed themselves to become blind and miserable and putrid.
He wanted to spit them out of His mouth, like a sickening taste, or a spoiled piece of food—that is what the church had become. Jesus reports that what is needed is for them to repent of their apathy for Him and start sacrificially giving whatever time it took to get their eyesight restored.
The Laodiceans had every advantage, but they were so focused on everything that did not matter, they could no longer see the one thing that did matter.
From REV2023FL-09c – Will You Avoid The Ultimate Temptation (230421AM)
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