Welcome to the Vood Church podcast.

Today, Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. concludes our collection of talks, seven,

revelations of Jesus' forest church.

In this message, when God knocks, we study the final of the seven churches in

Leodicea.

Although externally they were prosperous, internally they were spiritually bankrupt.

Jesus corrects them in love and invites them back to relationship with him.

In the same way, God is knocking on the door of our hearts.

The question is, will we open?

Don't miss next Sunday, Vision Sunday, as we look ahead to where we believe God is

leading us, with a special vision presentation from Pastor Rich and Don Shurie.

Now let's lean into the message together.

All right, today we are in part seven.

I can't believe that's a long time.

Part seven of a collection of talks that's affectionately titled seven.

We celebrated our seven year anniversary just seven weeks ago.

And in honor of that, we decided to study the seven churches of revelation.

And it's been a beautiful journey.

And today we are coming to a conclusion.

And today we are looking at the Church of Leodicea.

And the Church of Leodicea separates itself from all of the other churches in the fact that Jesus, as he gives this prophetic message,

he almost speaks in violent terms towards this church.

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