accurate description of the Laodiceans. The externals of church life and personal wealth replaced the spiritual riches of repentance and faith. It is very hard for people who live with material comforts to believe that God is not happy with them. That’s why Jesus said, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” (Luke 18:25). Physical comfort blunts the spiritual discomfort needed in repentance. That’s why the Laodiceans did not realize
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