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What is it? Is it a good thing, bad thing? 32 “For the waywardness of the naive will kill them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them. 18 Discipline your son while there is hope, And do not desire his death. 12 “It will come about at that time That I will search Jerusalem with lamps, And I will…

1 “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “ ‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Seven Spirits of God: Robert Thomas There the conclusion was that the title is a reference to the…

Our Scripture for Today: We continue to read from the Lectionary today. Our passages come from Isaiah in the Old Testament, the book of Romans in the NT, and then the Gospel reading is from John. From Isaiah we read in Isaiah 6:1-8 : In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne,…

INTRO Laodicea was a prominent city. It was located between two cities: Heirapolis and Colossae, the city whose church was the recipient of the letter of Colossians, which Paul wrote. Laodicea was only about 10 miles from Colossae. Laodicea was to Colossae what Three Rivers is to George West. It is apparent…

Intro ; One of the greatest benefits of living in America is the freedom of religion we enjoy and the security of our nation by our armed forces. One of the downsides to living in America is becoming “complacent” in religion and dependent on our government to maintain that security we enjoy. [ Illus.…

Revelation 3:14 . 14 “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation. The city of Laodicea is know for: Their water supply was lukewarm, and tasted bad. It came mineral-laden from a hot spring in an aqueduct. Their…

Introduction: Do you care? You ask, “Do I care about what?” Do you care that people are dying? “Dying of what?” Dying and going to Hell. All of us at times can be guilty of this mission buster. It’s the mission buster of apathy. We can be so happy that we and our crew are saved, that we forget about…

Intro Brothers and Sisters, there are two things you need to hear this morning - that our God is angry, and that our apathy in the face of such anger is appalling. We love to talk about Salvation. It is the message we proclaim! In fact each week we gather here to celebrate and remember the salvation…

In the scriptures, the word lazy [ 18 ], slothful [ 1 ], or sluggard [ 2 ], is used 21 times. Out of those 21 times, Solomon uses them nineteen times, Jesus once and Paul once. Solomon being a wise king and ruler over the people became a good judge of the character of his servants and others. This is…

Overcoming Apathy Last week we started a new series called “Overcomer.” This isn’t a series that taps into something new and exciting that you have never heard before. It isn’t going to change the way you look at your relationship with God for the rest of your life, but the reason I love this series…

14 “And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, ‘These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: 15 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. 16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither…

Pastoral Prayer: If you have been one social media lately…, you may have seen reports about a revival breaking out at Asbury University. From my understanding a routine chapel service ended on February 8th, but the students present did not want to leave the room. Students began to stand up and give testimony…

What does it mean to be complacent? The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “smug and uncritically satisfied with oneself or one’s achievements.” So then what does it mean to be spiritually complacent? Spiritual complacency occurs when we get comfortable and satisfied with the way WE worship instead…

Review So far, we have learned that we have a created mind, therefore, we are accountable to God for how we think. We have learned that God wants us to have a changed mind. He wants us to continually change our mind about our sin. If we practice a changed mind, it will lead to a contentious mind. Our…

Isaiah 32 & 33 Good evening church! Turn with me in your Bibles to Isaiah chapter 32 and we will begin. Let’s pray... 1 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, And princes will rule with justice. I want to make three points before we get too far into this tonight so I’ll do that here. The first is…

Over the last two weeks, we have been looking at growth and things that keep us from growing. Last week, we learned that we don’t often grow in life and in our faith because it can be painful. It takes effort and sometimes the process can be painful. Today, we will see another behavior that keeps us…

This is the first Sunday in November. Early this morning we all set our clocks back. We had our first true frost of the year this past week. Everything that was alive is dead. Have you ever seen something that looks alive but it is completely dead on the inside. I have seen trees that on the outside…

2 Chronicles 14:1-11 The kings of Israel and Judah give us a stockpile of good character traits and bad character traits. They give us a list of men of discipline and a list of men with weak morals. Most of the kings were evil; there was never a good king in the North, the kingdom of Israel after Solomon.…

TEXT: JAMES 5:13 | PRAYER AND PRAISE INTRO EXPLANATION : James, the half brother of Jesus, has covered an array of topics in this his final chapter. He has dealt with the emptiness of living a life for things. One day the Rust of those things will testify against them He addressed the struggle that so…

Mature Christian thinking has no room for complacency--only goals and grit.

Loveless ( Revelation 2:1-7 ) First let’s look at a couple of descriptive’s in this verse - stars and golden lampstands; Taking the lampstands first (‘lampstands’ is a better translation than ‘candlesticks’), they represent the seven churches. It is an appropriate symbol, for the church, being the corporate…

Loveless ( Revelation 2:1-7 ) First let’s look at a couple of descriptive’s in this verse - stars and golden lampstands; Taking the lampstands first (‘lampstands’ is a better translation than ‘candlesticks’), they represent the seven churches. It is an appropriate symbol, for the church, being the corporate…

Big Idea: God’s love casts out your fear, let it! God’s love casts out your fear, let it! All Christians risk falling into a trap. Each day that passes takes with it what we have done or didn’t do. Once a moment is past, it cannot be redeemed, we are simply enslaved to move on to the next moment, and…

First stop Caesarea Paul is in the early stages of an all expenses paid trip to Rome. A place he wanted to go, that was prophesied that he would go and preach the gospel to kings. From speaking before angry mob and Ananias the High priest, and the Sanhedrin Now goes to Caesarea to speak before the Roman…

Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan. It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before. These are the nations: the…