I know what you have done. Sardis was sinking into death, but Laodicea was already dead spiritually. Christ has no word of praise for them. They are barely warm (tepid). They are not hostile to Christ, but neither do they love him.
Verse Revelation 3:15. _THOU ART NEITHER COLD NOR HOT_] Ye are neither heathens nor Christians-neither good nor evil-neither led away by false doctrine, nor thoroughly addicted to that which is true....
I KNOW THY WORKS - notes on Revelation 2:2. THAT THOU ART NEITHER COLD NOR HOT - The word “cold” here would seem to denote the state where there was no pretension to religion; where everything was utt...
CHAPTER 3 Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea _ 1. Sardis: The reformation period (Revelation 3:1)_ 2. Philadelphia: The faithful remnant (Revelation 3:7) 3. Laodicea: The indifferent and apostate Churc...
REVELATION 2:1 TO REVELATION 3:22. THE LETTERS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES. These letters are addressed to individual churches, but their messages are intended for the Church as a whole. In every letter the...
THE LETTER TO THE CHURCH AT LAODICEA. Laodicea was 40 miles SE. of Philadelphia and near Colossæ. It was famous for its wealth, and when it was overthrown by an earthquake in A.D. 60, it disdained to...
_Laodicea_ is last named. The city was situated about twenty miles from Ephesus, and near Colosse. The church was honored with an epistle from the apostle Paul. See Colossians 4:17. Still, it had fall...
And to the angel of the Church in Laodicea, write: These things says the Amen, the witness on whom you can rely and who is true, the moving cause of the creation of God. I know your works; I know that...
THE LETTER TO SARDIS (Revelation 3:1-6)...
_neither cold nor hot_ Neither untouched by spiritual life, dead and cold, as an unregenerate heathen would be, nor "fervent (lit. BOILING a cognate word to that here used) in spirit" (Romans 12:11)....
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THE CHURCH IN LAODICEA...
_LETTER TO THE CHURCH AT LAODICEA REVELATION 3:14-17:_ Laodicea was a wealthy city where many Jews lived. It was a city filled with wealth and pride. Jesus described Himself to these brethren as "the...
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DISCOURSE: 2501 EPISTLE TO LAODICEA Revelation 3:14. Unto the angel of the Church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of...
I WOULD THOU WERT COLD OR HOT.— This is not to be understood absolutely, but comparatively; as when our Saviour says, _If any one come to me and hateth not his father,_ &c. the meaning is, not that a...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 10 Text Revelation 3:14-22 14 And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of...
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. NEITHER COLD - antithesis to "hot" [ zestos (G2200) boiling ("fervent," Acts 18:25; Roma...
THE PROPHETIC SECTION 10 _ Endurance _ will be a cardinal virtue in that day of stress and distress. Seven times are we reminded of it (Rev_1:9; Rev_2:2-3; Rev_2:19; Rev_3:10; Rev_13:10; Rev_14:12)....
THE EPISTLES TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES (CONCLUDED) 1-6. To the Church in Sardis Christ speaks as He who gives the spirit and looks for spiritual life. There is no praise for this Church. Its life is witho...
TO THE CHURCH IN LAODICEA Christ speaks as He through whom alone comes true life with its riches and blessings (Revelation 3:14). The Church is blamed for luke warmness, self-satisfaction and worldlin...
Cp. Matthew 21:31....
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 TO THE *CHURCH IN SARDIS - REVELATION 3:1-6 V1 ‘Write to the *angel of the *church in Sardis. I hold the 7 spirits of God and the...
NEITHER COLD NOR HOT. — The “heat” here is the glowing, fervent zeal and devotion which is commended and commanded elsewhere (Romans 12:11). It is not, however, the self-conscious, galvanised earnestn...
The moral nausea roused by tepid religion. It is best to be warm, and energetic; but even a frank repudiation of religion is at least more promising from an ethical standpoint (Arist. _Nik. Eth._ vii....
The message for Laodicea, where a church existed by 60 A.D. (Colossians 4:16)....
“I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK” Revelation 3:14 It is better to be cold than lukewarm, for in the latter case all that God's love can do for the soul has only produced a moderate result, while if we...
The letter to the Church in Sardis covers the period of the Reformation. The Church was addressed as "dead." Yet there were things remaining which were not dead, but "ready to die." The address is lar...
TO THE LUKEWARM CHURCH Verse 14 Laodicea was 40 miles southeast of Philadelphia. It was in a fertile valley at the junction of several major trade routes. It was a wealthy city famous for much gold, b...
(12) I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. (12) The proposition of reproof is in this verse, and in (Revelation 3:16) a threat while in (Revelation 3:17)...
The seventh and last letter is to the Angel of the Church of Laodicia. Christ here takes the title of the Amen, [3] as if he said, I am the Truth. --- The beginning of the creation, or of the creature...
(14) And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; (15) I know thy works, that thou art ne...
That God should have chosen John to be the instrument of communicating the closing volume of the New Testament is worthy of our consideration. It is not a new thing for God thus to set out the stronge...
The Church in Laodicea A man visited his optometrist to have his glasses checked. "They just aren't strong enough," he told the doctor. "Don't you have something stronger?" "Yes," asid the optometris...
There is no threat of removing the candlestick: that was settled. Judgment, setting aside the assembly, was fixed. But this body would be treated as the world, not ecclesiastically as a corrupt assemb...
I KNOW THY WORKS,.... Which were far from being perfect, and not so good as those of the former church: THAT THOU ART NEITHER COLD NOR HOT; she was not "cold", or without spiritual life, at least in...
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. Ver. 15. _That thou art neither cold_] Such are our civil justiciaries, political professors, neuterpassive Christ...
_And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write_ Laodicea lay south of Philadelphia in the way to return to Ephesus: for the seven churches lay in a kind of circular form, so that the natural...
NEITHER COLD NOR HOT; lukewarm, indifferent in religion. THOU WERT COLD OR HOT; madest no pretension to my service, or else wert zealous in it....
The letter to the congregation at Laodicea:...
I KNOW THY WORKS, THAT THOU ART NEITHER COLD NOR HOT; I WOULD THOU WERT COLD OR HOT....
THE ASSEMBLY AT SARDIS (vv. 1-6) The message to the assembly at Sardis has a very different character, for instead of being a development from Thyatira, it is rather a revulsion from it. Sardis mean...
LAODICEA (VERSES 14-22) The City Laodicea was a city of great wealth, richest in the region of Phrygia. It is located in the Meander Valley on the Lycus River. It had existed since the third century...
14-22 Laodicea was the last and worst of the seven churches of Asia. Here our Lord Jesus styles himself, "The Amen;" one steady and unchangeable in all his purposes and promises. If religion is worth...
I KNOW THY WORKS; I know and observe thy behaviour, thy ministerial function. THAT THOU ART NEITHER COLD NOR HOT; thou art neither openly profane and grossly scandalous, like heathens, or such as make...
Revelation 3:15 know G1492 (G5758) your G4675 works G2041 that G3754 are G1488 (G5748) neither G3777 cold...
‘I know your works, that you are neither cold not hot. I would you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew you out of my mouth.' Laodicea's water supply c...
Revelation 3:15. The contents of the Epistle now begin. THAT THOU ART NEITHER COLD NOR HOT: I would thou wert cold or hot. The latter words throw light upon the interpretation of the former, for they...
NEITHER COLD (ουτε ψυχρος). Old word from ψυχω, to grow cold (Matthew 24:12), in N.T. only Matthew 10:42 and this passage.NOR HOT (ουτε ζεστος). Late verbal from ζεω, to boil, (Romans 12:11), boil...
Revelation 3:15 Lukewarmness. I. The first alarming symptom of lukewarmness is a growing inattention to the private duties of religion. And among these are private prayer, the study of the Bible, and...
CONTENTS: Message to Sardis concerning their hypocrisy. Message to Philadelphia on hollow profession. Message to Laodicea on apostasy. Christ's attitude to the Church in its final stage in the world....
_Epistle the fifth._ Revelation 3:1. _Sardis,_ once a flourishing city, the residence of ancient kings, now a miserable village, having but few christians. This is not the Sardis, capital of Lydia, wh...
_The Laodiceans._ LAODICEA--THE SELF-COMPLACENT CHURCH Laodicea is the type of a self-complacent Church. Underneath the condemnation of luke-warmness there is a yet more heart-searching lesson. Lukew...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 3:14 _Laodicea_ is criticized for its spiritual immaturity. The city was a commercial center. It had thriving medical and textile industries. It was so wealthy that it de...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 3:15 The church’s LUKEWARM indifference was disgusting to Jesus. COLD and HOT water both represent something positive, for cold water refreshes
7. LAODICEA. Vs. 14-22. Laodicea receives no commendation. She is not hopeless, but indifferent. However indifference is next to hopelessness. The city of Laodicea, named for Laodice wife of the Sele...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Revelation 3:14. LAODICEANS.—The city of Laodicea was situated on the banks of the Lycus, near Hierapolis and Colossæ. Archippus was possibly the angel of this Church,...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 3:1 _The epistle to the Church at Sardis. _This Church is one of the two which receives unmixed reproof. Smyrna and Philadelphia receive no blame; Sardis and Laodicea receive no...
7. LAODICEA: THE MATERIALLY RICH APOSTATE CHURCH Background: The city was founded before 1000 BC but the city was named Laodicea in 250 BC. The physical location of the city was about 40 miles east of...
And unto the angel of the church in Sardis (Protestant Reformation) write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God (Revelation 3:1), And so the fullness of the Spirit as it dwelt in...
1 Corinthians 16:22; 1 Kings 18:21; 1 Peter 1:22; 2 Corinthians 12:20;...
Cold [ψ υ χ ρ ο ς]. Attached to the world and actively opposed to the Church. "This," as Alford remarks, "as well as the opposite state of spiritual fervor, would be an intelligible and plainly - mark...
THE CHURCHES AT SARDIS, PHILADELPHIA, AND LAODICEA Revelation 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We present some of the outstanding things written to the Church at Sardis. This is the fifth Church in the seven...
I know thy works — Thy disposition and behaviour, though thou knowest it not thyself. That thou art neither cold — An utter stranger to the things of God, having no care or thought about them. Nor hot...