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

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are saying today that Laodicea has to go back to<br />

the Philadelphian condition before Christ can<br />

come. I am not going to go into that issue,<br />

because, you know, it’s a theological issue.<br />

I will say this much, that there is reproof for the<br />

<strong>Laodicean</strong> church, but there is something at which<br />

you may be surprised. <strong>The</strong>re are two churches that<br />

have no commendation, and one of them is the<br />

<strong>Laodicean</strong> church. God had no commendation for<br />

us. And that is something that we need to know.<br />

In view of this I would like to read you a quotation<br />

here by Ellen G. White [3T 252]:<br />

<strong>The</strong> message to the church of the <strong>Laodicean</strong>s is<br />

a startling denunciation and it is applicable to the<br />

people of God at the present time.<br />

You mean to say that here is a church that has<br />

present truth and God has no commendation? Isn’t<br />

that a startling denunciation? And so we’re going<br />

to see why. Why is it that we have no<br />

commendation from Christ? Here is a church that<br />

claims to have the truth, here is a church that<br />

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