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The message to the Laodiceans is applicable to Seventh-day Adventists who
have had great light and have not walked in the light. It is those who have made great
profession, but have not kept in step with their Leader, that will be spewed out of His
mouth unless they repent. --Selected Messages, book 2, p. 66.

Diagrammatically, then, the Laodicean message may be depicted like this:

As with other passages of the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy we have examined,
the implications of this picture are solemn. For we read, "Because thou art lukewarm

... I will spue thee out of my mouth" (Rev. 3: 16). Says The SDA Bible Commentary
on the text: "The figure of tepid water is pressed to its logical conclusion. Such water
is disappointing and nauseating, and the one who drinks it almost involuntarily
expels it."

I must ask myself, In which of the three groups am I? The cold, lukewarm, or hot? 3

"What Greater Deception?"

What greater deception can come upon human minds than a confidence that
they are right when they are all wrong! The message of the True Witness finds the
people of God in a sad deception, yet honest in that deception. They know not that

their condition is deplorable in the sight of God. While those addressed are flattering
themselves that they are in an exalted spiritual condition, the message of the True
Witness breaks their security by the startling denunciation of their true condition of
spiritual blindness, poverty, and wretchedness. The testimony, so cutting and severe,
cannot be a mistake, for it is the True Witness who speaks, and His testimony must
be correct. -Testimonies, vol. 3, pp. 252, 253.

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