Corporate Repentance - Robert J. Wieland

No one of us as a mere individual is worthy of
this distinction on the stage of world history! Christ
must be addressing us as a corporate body.
There is Hope for Us
The Lord would not spend the remainder of the
chapter telling us how to respond if He had already
finally rejected us. We make Him sick at His
stomach, but He pleads with us to relieve His pain.
This message to Laodicea is the most critically
sensitive and urgent in Scripture. The success of
the entire plan of salvation depends upon its final
hour; and Laodicea's problem is bound up with that
crisis.
Jesus says, "I counsel you to buy of me gold
tried in the fire" (verse 18). In addressing the
Seventh-day Adventist denomination and in
particular its leadership, He tells us that the first
thing we need is … not more works, more activity,
more strategies and programs. He told us in verse
15, "I know your works." Our works are already
feverishly intense. Peter identifies the "gold tried in
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