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Originally Posted by Drake

In that, I also realized something about myself. My sentiment needs to be whatever His sentiment is. If He is unhappy about something then how can I be happy about the same thing? If He is outside the church in Laodicea then how can I be satisfied to stay inside? And though eager in many ways to be wherever He resides and join with Him in His sentiment .... yet, do I also love as He loves? Do I love those believers that reject the Lord and love them as He loves them? His heart is without compare and I realized, speaking for myself, that it is all too easy for me to get technical (by the letter) about biblical things and forget the real and most important thing... joining with Lord in His sentiments and in the spirit of them toward fellow believers.. not only as pertains to righteousness, to warning, to reproof, and with discipline, but also in love.

Yes, I appreciated your presentation of the dilemma that many of us have faced and I suspect all Christians must face in their walk. It is as the Lord said "narrow is the way that leads to life and few there be that find it".

If you hear the Lord knocking to come out of Laodicea it doesn't mean He doesn't love them, just like being born blind is not proof of sin on the child or the parent's part. Rather it is so that the works of God can be done.

In my own experience the day I walked out I had no idea where I was going. I literally walked out of Dunton House in NY early on the Lord's day. Whenever I came to an intersection I simply prayed and "followed my spirit". I walked like this for several miles and then made a sharp left turn as though I had just picked up a very strong signal. I passed an apartment building, saw a man come out the front door with a Bible in his hand, and did a U turn and followed him up the hill to a large meeting hall. That was in 1998. It reminded me of the story of the disciples who saw a man carrying a large pitcher of water and followed him to an upper room.