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

series of workers meetings, and the pastors, in
appreciation for those workers meetings, took me
on a trip. They gave me a free trip to Mount Sinai,
where the law was given. I was quite amazed: the
daytime was awfully hot — sometimes it reached
112 degrees Fahrenheit — but the nights! I forgot
to take warm stuff, because we left in the daytime,
but the nights were freezing cold. I had to borrow
and do everything, even my sleeping bag was too
cold. You have this extreme of temperature.
During the Exodus, because of these extremes
in temperature, in the daytime, God was a cloud to
keep them cool. Because it’s quite cool in Egypt in
the shade; it’s in the sun that it’s hot. In the
nighttime, He was a pillar of fire, so He had a
miraculous heating system. So the Jews kept warm
in the night, and they kept cool in the day, and God
was their Protector. He was supplying their needs.
So you can see that cold is identified with
works of the flesh. Now go back to Galatians 5.
What is the opposite of cold? Hot. And what is
the opposite of works of the flesh? Let’s look at
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