The Ancient church of Laodicea in Denizli, Turkiye

In Denizli Turkey there is an ancient city still standing today which was one of the richest cities of Asia Minor during the first century when Christianity first began. There was a Christian church there back then which Jesus Christ himself wrote a letter to in the book of Revelation chapter 3. Since these Christians were very rich unlike the other six churches that Jesus sent a letter to, these Christians were in the worst spiritual condition out of all of the churches. We know this because Laodicea is the only church that Jesus never said anything at all good about, although he did have some things that he rebuked five of the seven churches for which are Ephesus, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, and Laodicea, the Laodicean believers are the only ones that he never had anything good to say about although he did give them an encouraging promise that they could have eternal life if they repented of their sin, lukewarmn spirituality, and love for money. He told them to be zealous therefor and repent and he promised that if they did that they would sit with him in his throne even as he (Jesus) also overcame and had sat down with his Father in his throne. It is astonishing that although there were four other churches that had problems and different sins and got rebuked and corrected by Jesus, Laodicea was the only church that was so bad that the presence of God was not even in their church at all! Jesus said that he was standing outside of the church knocking on their door and trying to get in! So although these Christians confessed to love Jesus and be his followers, they were so distracted by the things of the world that their relationship with God was so weak that they had no fellowship with Jesus at all and God wasn't moving or doing anything in their lives at all. Sadly the majority of Christians that live in the western world are exactly like the Laodiceans because they are also wealthy, whereas the rest of the world which isn't as wealthy contains a lot more Christians that are on fire for God and are truly walking with him.
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00:00 Intro
01:20 Looking around the ancient ruins
06:05 Selling your soul for money
08:17 Anoint thine eyes with eyesalve
09:24 Revelation 3:14-22
10:39 Why did Jesus use the example of lukewarm water?
14:34 Lukewarm Christians don't live holy!
18:44 Lukewarm Christians don't serve God!
21:56 Lukewarmness is deadly! It will send you to hell!
24:52 The ancient church of Laodicea
27:59 The promise of eternal life is given to those who repent and overcome sin (Revelation 3:21)

Revelation 3:14-22
14 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; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 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: 18 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 eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Mark 4:19
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

Matthew 6:19-32
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

1 John 2:15-17
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.