Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, April 27th.

God does all the work of pursuing a relationship with us.

Tune in to today's podcast, Jesus the Seeking Savior,

and discover how he reaches out to each of us with love and grace.

The most beautiful and massive piece of artwork ever to be found about Jesus,

probably in this passage of scripture that I want to talk about today,

because it shows Jesus standing at this door with his hand raised to knock.

And what it is, it is the message of the Lord Jesus to the seven churches in Asia

mana. And this particular verse is in that particular series of two chapters, Revelation

Chapter 2 and Revelation Chapter 3, when Jesus is speaking to the seven churches. I want you to listen to this message. It's a very, very important

message. All of them are, but I want you to listen carefully because there's a picture of Jesus here

that's not found anywhere else in the scripture. And it's so comprehensive because it's about our

relationship to him.

So I want us to read these verses together, beginning in this third chapter of Revelation, and read the 14th through the 20th verses.

Revelation 3, 14 through 20. This is just one of these seven churches.

He said to the angel or the messenger or the pastor of the church in Laoticea write,

Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God says this, that is Jesus saying this.

And he said to them, I know your deeds that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot.

So because you are lukewarm and neither hot or cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. That's pretty

strong language. Because you say, I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing, and you do not know

that you're wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, I advise you to buy from me gold

refined by the fire so that you may become rich and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and that the shame of your

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