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GoD's WorK - God's Puzzle Solved

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386 God’s Workthrown into The Lake of Fire. Christ’s warning to the Christianswho are not growing spiritually, is how they receive the samepenalty as the unbelievers or atheists - which is The Lake of Fire- the many stripes written in Luke 12. Jesus warns one of HisChristian Churches that they need to go into The Lake of Fire inorder to become zealous growing Christians. Revelation 3:15-20relates to one of the seven churches, which are, indeed, of Christ,but they were lukewarm and not really growing spiritually.The Laodicean ChurchThis section of text deals with those individuals in Christ’s bodyor church who were in The City of Laodicea. What was theirproblem? “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold norhot…” (Verse 15). He preferred them to be either cold or hot. Ifthey were cold, then it is like an atheist or agnostic. They do notneed to receive many stripes in “hell” or Gehenna. Or, if theywere very zealous, they would not go into hell at all.Why are they lukewarm? It is because they didn’t think theyneeded to grow in new truth any longer. This is apparent becausethey believed they already had the truth. Once they believe theyalready possess all the truth, they are automatically placed inserious trouble. Paul plainly states that humans can only knowin part. There is not one person, group or denomination who hasall the truth - but only God and Christ have the whole truth(I Corinthians 13:9-10).The Ten TalentsThe parable of the ten talents in Matthew 25:14-30 is about theindividual who buried his one talent. This was because he wasafraid to keep growing into new truth as he thought he already

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