Christian Desperation

January 7, 1994

 

• Revelation 3:14-19 asserts that a Christian must live a life of desperation before God.

"And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this:   'I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I would that you were cold or hot.   'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.   'Because you say, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,'  `I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich, and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.   'Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; be zealous therefore, and repent.'

• The basic questions of life help expose our need by probing the fundamental elements of our existence.
• For the Christian, A Quest For Meaning is a study of surrender.
• We will rediscover:

 
God at the source of all things (Rom 11:36).
what it means to be made in the image of God (Gen 1:26).
what it means to take "every thought captive to the obedience of Christ" (2 Cor 10:5).
what it means to glorify God (1 Cor 10:31).