{"id":8606,"date":"2019-10-22T17:36:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T21:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=8606"},"modified":"2019-10-22T17:36:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T21:36:30","slug":"tothelukewarmchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2019\/10\/tothelukewarmchurch\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Lukewarm Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>THEME: Unsinkable<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>SERIES: Postcards<\/h2>\n<h2><strong>TITLE: To the Lukewarm Church<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>Scripture: Revelation 3:14-22<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>I.\u00a0\u00a0 THE JUDGE\u2019S INDICTMENT \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">What we know about Laodicea (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>the city<\/strong><\/span>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was a center of (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>trade<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was a center of (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>banking<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was a center of (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>fashion<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was a center of (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>medicine<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was a center of a large (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Jewish population<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It had one serious flaw: its (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>water supply<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>II.\u00a0\u00a0 THE JUDGE\u2019S SOLUTION<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">What the church needed to do to escape their lukewarm label:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They needed to buy (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>gold refined by fire<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They needed to buy (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>white garments<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They needed to buy (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>salve<\/strong><\/span>) so their eyes may see.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NEXT WEEK: \u00a0\u00a0Theme: Unsinkable\/ Series: Servants<\/p>\n<p>Title: What a Servant Doesn\u2019t Forget- Micah 6:6-8<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THEME: Unsinkable SERIES: Postcards TITLE: To the Lukewarm Church Scripture: Revelation 3:14-22 &nbsp; I.\u00a0\u00a0 THE JUDGE\u2019S INDICTMENT \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 What we know about Laodicea (the city): 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was a center of (trade). 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was a center of (banking). 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was a center of (fashion). 4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was a center of (medicine). 5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2019\/10\/tothelukewarmchurch\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon-notes","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8607,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions\/8607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}