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Destination—Laodicea
Family Circus cartoon
I like my coffee.
And I like it hot.
The other day I made my pot of coffee, left the house and forgot it
And I returned and my coffee was lukewarm.
This was a good place to live
Built on the major trade routes and received goods and textiles from all over the known world
Its primary industry was wool textiles
It was also the banking center of the region
If it was a modern town, you probably would have found car dealerships and shopping malls, nice restaurants.
It would be a comfortable town.
They were so comfortable that when the earthquake of A.D. 17 hit, and the Roman Emperor offered them money to rebuild, the said, “Thanks, but no thanks.
We can do it ourselves”.
They were self-sufficient and proud.
Biggest problem—water.
They didn’t have a good source of drinking water.
So they built pipes and piped water in from a source of cool water—but it was miles away.
And the water, after traveling through miles of clay pipes in the hot sun would arrive at Laodicea, not cold, not hot, but lukewarm, and tepid
Worse yet, the water was full of minerals which gave the water an awful oder and an awful taste, especially when it began to warm up.
In fact, one can see the sedimentation from these minerals in the pipes today.
This taste would make you want to spew it out of your mouth.
Revelation 3:14-22
Biggest problem—water.
They didn’t have a good source of drinking water.
their water was full of minerals which gave the water an awful oder and an awful taste, especially when it began to warm up.
In fact, one can see the sedimentation from these minerals in the pipes today.
So they built pipes and piped water in from a source of cool water
Some commentaries say that they actually piped water in from hot springs
—but it was miles away.
And the water, after traveling through miles of clay pipes in the hot sun would arrive at Laodicea, not cold, not hot, but lukewarm, and tepid
This taste would make you want to spew it out of your mouth.
This taste would make you want to spew it out of your mouth.
Lukewarm water.
You’ve doubtless gone to the tap on a hot day for a drink of cold water and gulped it down only to find out that you didn’t let the water run long enough and it’s only lukewarm
you might have spit it out and searched for some colder stuff
Or maybe the other way.
—Hot coffee I like it hot and strong.
The other day I made my coffee, having somewhere to go.
I rushed around and got out the door only to find out that I had forgotten my coffee.
I got home a few hour later and of course, it was room temperature—lukewarm
I spit it out of my mouth and nuked it to make it hot.
Can make you literally nauseated.
Is not usesful
Jesus is saying to this church,
“You are luke warm like the water you drink”
"I am about to spit you out of my mouth”
I don’t want to gross anyone out here, but it’s vitally important that we get what Jesus is saying here—how strong this language is.
Greek word is emeo.
Most translations render this word, “Spit”.
Gives you the picture of having something in your mouth that doesn’t taste right and you just want to get rid of it.
But if that is what it was talking about, there would be a couple of other words that would be used.
As in “Jesus spit in the eyes of the blind man” or “The soldiers spat upon Jesus”.
Unpleasant enough.
But this word, emeo, has different meaning and it’s only used one time in the Bible…right in this verse
it means, to vomit.
The KJV says, I will spue thee out of my mouth
Jesus is literally saying to the church at Laodicea, “You make me sick”.
I know your deeds…and you make me sick
Shocking words!
This had to be astounding for them.
After all, they were not worshiping in the temples or listening to that woman Jezebel.
They were just saying, “I don’t need anything”.
Imagine a friend saying this to you
Imagine your King, your Savior, your Shepherd, your Friend, coming to you and saying, “I’ve had a look at how you are living and…literally, you make me want to vomit”.
What was it about the church at Laodicea that caused Jesus to be sick?
Vs. 17 “You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’
But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.”
The sin of pride and self-sufficiency.
This church was healthy, wealthy, and wise.
They had lulled themselves into a mediocre existence.
They were mediocre.
They weren’t hot or cold.
They were just “luke”
You might think, “Oh, the problem is that they weren’t hot.
They had no spiritual furvor.
They weren’t burning up for Jesus
That wasn’t the problem.
The problem was that they were neither hot or cold.
They weren’t useful
They weren’t refreshing and soothing like a cold drink of water.
They weren’t hot and purifying like hot water.
They were good for nothing except to be vomited out and thrown away.
kind of like salt that has lost its saltiness
Or a light that has been put under a shade.
This is a church that is completely blind to their actual condition:
They are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked
Reminds you of that pointed little story “The Emperor’s New Clothes”.
A person who is physically in that condition would be completely without means to take care of himself
But generally a person who is in that condition would know that they can’t take care of himself.
The irony here is that a church in this condition often doesn’t see it.
I have to think of the church in America.
Modern Christianity.
I have to think that the American Church has embraced the philosophy of American self-sufficiency
A philosophy that says, “I’m a self-made man.”
I pulled myself up by my own bootstraps
I did get any help from anybody and I made me what I am today
A philosophy that looks at a needy neighbor and says
Get off your duff and help yourself
Or, I’ll help you this once, but really, you need to help yourself at some point
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