The Laodicean Message - E.H. “Jack” Sequeira

There Peter tells us that the world may
persecute you, not because you have done bad, but
because you have done good. But in the judgment,
they will admit, they will confess, that your works
were not evil. They will have to confess, “Yes, we
were wrong in persecuting you.”
In concluding our introduction, I want to give
you the pattern of the messages. I have already
explained to you that the common thread that goes
through these messages to the seven churches is “I
know your works,” which means that God or Christ
is evaluating the Christian church at different
periods of church history. And we are going to see
how Christ evaluates the Christian church in these
last days. Or, to be more precise, “How does God
evaluate the Adventist church, which is part of the
last-day generation of Christians?” How does He
evaluate us? According to our works. That is what
we are going to study Biblically.
I want to give you the pattern. There are four
basic terms that are used in all the churches, and I
want to give these to you:
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