Sermons and Talks, Volume 1 - Ellen G. White

What is the matter? They have left their first
love. “So then because thou art lukewarm ... I will
spue thee out of My mouth.” What does He mean
by that? Why, if the people have great light and
knowledge and yet they are not striving to give that
light and evidence to the world in their works,
which are living principles that they shall present
to the world, Christ is dishonored, and He becomes
so disgusted with them that he will not take their
names into His mouth to present them to the
Father.
“I know thy works.” “Because thou sayest, I
am rich, and increased with goods, and have need
of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched,
and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.”
(Verse 17)
Now what is the difficulty? “Tried in the fire.”
Christ had such love for us that He could go
through all that trying of the crucifixion, and come
off conqueror. And the white raiment, what is that?
Christ's righteousness. “Anoint thine eyes with
eyesalve”--spiritual discernment, that you may
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