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| by Sandy Simpson, 4/30/07 
Much has been made of this passage, using it to point out what is happening today in the apostate churches around the world. It is true that they believe they are rich in spiritual things when they are very poor. It can be applied in one sense to the Word of Faith movement. It is true that the "River" movement of Latter Rain teachings do think they are hot when actually they are cold. But this letter to the end times church of Laodicea is actually talking to biblical Christians who are born again. The apostate movements of the Latter Rain, Third Wave, Toronto "Blessing", Vineyard, Brownsville "Outpouring", Word of Faith, New Apostolic Reformation, World Gathering on Indigenous People, Manifest Sons of God, Seeker Friendly, Church Growth, Emerging Church and many others have already had their lampstands removed (Rev. 2:5) because of their apostasy and have already been spit out of the Lord's mouth (Rev. 3:16).
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| The consequences of the Lack of expository preaching |
by Mike Oppenheimer, 5/15/20 
Many stand behind the pulpit that should not be there. So many teach extra biblical nonsense, stories that are not focused on the Bible, but their experiences, usually made up. Either they were not called, or if they were called to ministry they did not allow the time for training and education. Jesus picked regular men who had enough Bible knowledge of Judaism and personally trained them for 3 years. They were not Pharisees who memorized all these extra laws invented by man, so they were eager to learn the truth. Later when they were given the Holy Spirit to empower them for their mission, Jesus sent them out - to preach, evangelize and disciple. Preach the word Paul told young Timothy. Yet today we hear people give a Scripture and they launch into various stories that may or may not have anything to do with the Scripture or be true. Going through the Bible systematically teaches us the character of God. It helps understand completely what the writer meant in his book. We are to use the Bible as the authority - which takes the emphasis off man, off of self. The Scripture has less of a tendency to be manipulated when the basis of our preaching is founded in the Scripture, book by book. Hearing the word preached preserves us from sins influence, it changes our affections from being attracted to sin and the world, to instead be obeying God. When the Gospel in the Church is not accurately taught or explained, people end up not understanding the message of sin, repentance and their response which brings them to saving faith. This affects their daily walk with the Lord. So the answer is to get back to the basics and really know them as our foundation to build upon. Once a church gets a certain size and popular, the danger is things become automatic, and they become very busy to keep it going. And that's when we can stop paying attention.
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