Becoming A Vessel Of Honor Rebecca Brown

181 "And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou were cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. 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: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous there fore, and repent." Revelation 3:14-19

The glitter of "Christian" TV stars and "Christian” enter tainment has blinded the eyes of God’s people to their ter rible poverty. The emotional highs induced by repeated choruses and emotional music in many church services completely drown out that still quiet voice of the Holy Spirit calling us to repentance and holiness. I believe A.W. Tozer summed it all up best in his book The Pursuit of God.

"Shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies, the preponderance of the element of fun in gospel meet ings, the glorification of men, trust in religious exter nalities, quasi-religious fellowships, salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such as these are the symptoms of an evil disease, a deep and serious malady of the soul." (The Pursuit of God, by A.W. Tozer, Chris tian Publications, Inc., 1982, p. 69.)

Those of us who have accepted our Savior’s gracious offer to wash away our sins by His precious blood shed on

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