June 18, 2025

Laodicea: The Church of The End Times

Send us a text A persistent knock echoes through the halls of modern Christianity—not from seekers, but from Jesus Himself, standing outside the doors of His own church. This sobering revelation forms the heart of a powerful message that confronts the lukewarm condition of today's believers. The ancient church of Laodicea wasn't struggling or failing—it was prosperous, comfortable, and self-satisfied. Their lukewarm spiritual condition perfectly mirrored their physical reality: a city that p...

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A persistent knock echoes through the halls of modern Christianity—not from seekers, but from Jesus Himself, standing outside the doors of His own church. This sobering revelation forms the heart of a powerful message that confronts the lukewarm condition of today's believers.

The ancient church of Laodicea wasn't struggling or failing—it was prosperous, comfortable, and self-satisfied. Their lukewarm spiritual condition perfectly mirrored their physical reality: a city that piped in water that arrived neither refreshingly cold nor therapeutically hot, just uselessly lukewarm. Jesus' devastating assessment still rings true today: "You say 'I am rich, I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing,' but you do not realize that you're wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked."

We've created a Christianity that's wealthy but not powerful, comfortable but not transformative. We've traded glory for graphics, built altars to personalities rather than holiness, and crafted a faith that asks Jesus to wait in the back row while we run the show. Prayer altars stand empty while production values soar. Satan didn't need to destroy the church—he simply needed us to believe we were fine without radical dependence on Jesus.

What keeps us spiritually anesthetized? Comfort that avoids spiritual disciplines, fear of man that silences prophetic truth, and idolatry of self that transforms Jesus from Lord to life coach. The consequences extend beyond our personal spiritual lives—our children don't know truth because we didn't teach it, marriages crumble because we didn't fight spiritually, and culture deteriorates because we whispered when called to roar.

Yet mercy remains—Jesus still knocks, offering refined gold instead of fake prosperity, white garments of righteousness instead of shame, and spiritual eye salve for clarity in a blind world. The question remains: Will we be the church that hosts services but never surrenders, or will we open the door and let Jesus take over completely? The time to wake up is now. The remnant will be bold, unashamed, and burning with holy passion.

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Chapters

00:45 - INTRO

02:28 - LAODICEA THEN - A HISTORICAL WARNING

04:07 - LAODICEA NOW - THE MODERN CHURCH MIRROR

05:10 - RICH - BLIND - NAKED

06:25 - WHY WONT WE WAKE UP

07:47 - COST OF LUKEWARM FAITH

08:38 - WHAT JESUS STILL OFFERS

09:33 - THE FINAL WAKE UP

Transcript

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The world is changing and time is running out.

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This is Renewed Mindsets, where we confront biblical truth head-on no sugarcoating, no compromise.

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We expose false doctrine, reveal fulfilled prophecy and shine light on the demonic deception of these last days, but we also stand firm on the hope of Christ's return, the call to holiness and the urgency of true salvation.

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It's time to renew your mind, for the time is now.

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Let's go, boys.

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Hey, welcome to Renewed Mindsets.

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I'm Rick and I'm so glad you're here.

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There's a knock, not a loud one, not a violent one, just steady, and it's coming from the door of the church.

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The scary part it's Jesus knocking, not on the hearts of sinners, but on the doors of his own people.

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Revelation 3.20 says here I am, I stand at the door and knock.

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If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in.

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What kind of church has to be re-invited to let Jesus back in?

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Let me tell you Laodicea.

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And today I'm here to tell you we are living in it.

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The modern church, dressed up in lights and sound and likes and followers, is asleep in comfort while the world burns around it.

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The world is on fire, but the church is not, and that's the danger.

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Not that we've lost doctrine, not even that we've turned away completely, but that we think we're fine when we're not.

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This episode today is not entertainment.

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It's not soft or cute or polished.

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This is a prophetic wake-up call, because the church that won't wake up won't rise up, because the church that won't wake up won't rise up.

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Laodicea wasn't a small or broken place.

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It was booming, a wealthy city in Asia Minor or modern-day Turkey.

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It was a center of commerce, a center of medicine and fashion.

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They were famous for wealth and banking.

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They had a medical school there that was known for eye salve.

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They had fine black wool that was manufactured there for luxurious clothing.

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They had everything except for water.

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There was no local spring.

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They had to pipe in water from other cities using an aqueduct.

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Now, by the time the hot water from Heriopolis arrived, it was lukewarm.

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The cold water from Colossae, same thing, lukewarm.

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That water system was a literal symbol of spiritual uselessness.

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Jesus uses their very identity to speak to them.

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He says in Revelation 3, 15 and 16, I know your works, that you're neither hot or cold.

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I wish you were one or the other because you are lukewarm.

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I will spit you out of my mouth.

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He's not saying I wish you were cold in the faith he's saying.

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You're ineffective, you bring no refreshment, you bring no healing.

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You've become so neutral that you're nauseating.

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This is the only church in Revelation that Jesus has nothing good to say about.

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Not one compliment, just a rebuke.

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Let's take a look in the mirror.

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Today's church is wealthy, image-obsessed, celebrity-driven, doctrinally shallow, spiritually distracted and, just like Laodicea, we think we're fine, I am rich, I've prospered, I don't need anything.

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Meanwhile, our prayer lives are dead, our altars are empty.

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Our churches are entertainment centers instead of hospitals for broken people.

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We've traded the glory for graphics.

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We've made disciples of Instagram, not of Christ.

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We platform personalities, not holiness.

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We quote influencers more than we quote scripture.

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We've got branding merch, motivational sermons, but we don't have repentance.

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Jesus is outside the building and we're too busy to notice.

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So let's break this down.

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Revelation 3.17,.

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You say I am rich, I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing, but you do not realize that you're wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.

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Rich in resources but not spirit, blind, unable to see our sin, naked, spiritually exposed and ashamed.

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This is where the enemy has deceived us.

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He didn't need to destroy the church.

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This is where the enemy has deceived us.

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He didn't need to destroy the church, he just needed us to think that we were fine without Jesus.

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We're clothed in self-confidence, not in righteousness.

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We see through cultural lenses, not spiritual ones.

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We've got money in one hand, but we've got no power Crowds but no consecration.

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Jesus isn't being poetic, he's being brutally honest.

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You're broke, blind and naked.

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What happens when we no longer know how bad it's gotten?

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We lose our urgency.

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We stop fighting, we start coasting, and lukewarm people always coast until they crash.

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So why won't we wake up?

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Well, first reason is comfort.

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Comfort is the anesthetic that puts the church to sleep.

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We don't want to fast, we don't want hard truth.

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We want Jesus, but we want him to sit in the back row while we preach our dreams.

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Yeah, another reason why we won't wake up fear of man.

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We've made peace with sin to avoid conflict with sinners.

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We're silent on abortion because it's political.

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We're silent on gender confusion because it's just not my thing, it's not my business, right.

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We're silent on holiness because it's too old school.

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Fear of offending people has replaced fear of God.

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Another reason we won't wake up Idolatry of self.

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Modern Christianity teaches self-help, not self-denial.

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We've made God a life coach, not a king.

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We've made Jesus the Savior who serves us, not the Lord.

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We submitted to 2 Timothy.

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3.2 says in the last days people will be lovers of themselves.

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Tell me that's not today.

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People will be lovers of themselves.

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Tell me that's not today.

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And when the church is in love with itself, it'll never carry a cross.

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A lukewarm faith has a cost, and that cost is souls.

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Our children don't know truth because we didn't teach it.

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Our marriages fail because we didn't fight spiritually.

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Our culture crumbles because we were silent when we were supposed to roar.

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Lukewarm Christianity is powerless Christianity and in the last days it's not enough just to be nice.

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The remnant will be bold, unashamed and burning.

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Jesus said I wish you were either hot or cold, because even cold people know that they're far from God.

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Lukewarm people don't see the danger, they're content in their compromise and, worst of all, they misrepresent Christ to the world.

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Now here's the mercy of Jesus.

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In this message.

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Jesus doesn't walk away Revelation 3.19,.

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He's knocking, but he's not kicking the door down, but he's waiting.

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He's offering gold refined in fire, real treasure, not fake prosperity.

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He's offering white clothes to wear, righteousness that covers our shame and salve for our eyes.

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He offers spiritual clarity.

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In a blind world.

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He's saying let me back in, let me set you on fire again, let me make you holy, let me open your eyes.

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So here's the question what kind of church are we going to be?

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The kind that hosts services but never surrenders?

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The kind that sings songs but never repents?

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The kind that quotes scripture but doesn't obey it?

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Are we going to be the kind of church that opens the door, that bows in repentance and says Jesus, come in and take over.

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He's still knocking, but he won't knock forever.

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He who has ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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This is your moment to wake up, to light the fire again, to be the church that overcomes, not the one that gets spit out.

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It's time to answer the door.

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The executive producer of Renewed Mindsets is Christy McCurry.

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That's all for today, but I'll be back with more unfiltered biblical truth and undeniable prophecy.

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The time to wake up is now.

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If today's episode challenged you, don't keep it to yourself.

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Tell someone.

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Please.

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Text them a link, share the truth while there's still time.

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Visit renewedmindsetscom to stay connected and to listen to past episodes, and check out our merch at renewedmindsetsstore.

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Jesus is coming soon.

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Stay watchful, stay holy, stay renewed Until next week'm.

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Rick, be an encourager, not a discourager.

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I love you.

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