Paul was greatly concerned for their and the church of Laodicea's welfare. There was an explosion of false doctrine all around the Lord's churches. Each member is responsible for keeping themselves clean of false doctrine, for the failure of one might be the failure of the whole church, and maybe churches.

We compare the rain God sends and His grace, how they renew dead ground to produce fruit and restore the heart from drought. Grace is poured out in a church, but some have no fruit or a sweet savor of life. Grace produces good fruit and a sweet fragrance in those whose hearts it penetrates and changes.

Jesus is the Living stone, and the saints are the lively stones. Jesus is the Chief Corner Stone, which the lively stones are built upon to form a building. Everything built thereon must be plumb in all directions for it to be a proper building.

Revealing the perfecting of the saints by the Spirit in Christ Jesus. Not all of the saint's suffering is for Christ's sake, for the furtherance of the Gospel. Each saint will stand before God blameless.

The sin of omission is to know to do right but not do it, and usually, it is a Presumptuous sin. The example in our Passage is Israel, who obeyed not, trusted not, and drew not near God. They replaced these sins of omission with sins of commission.

Revealing the different Mysteries of God, hid from the before the foundation of the world when only God existed. God revealed these mysteries in Jesus Christ, by preaching the Gospel to the Jews and gentiles. God reconciled sinners to Himself by Jesus Christ-

We are to partake of the Lord spiritually, as we partake of food physically. It is to permeate our being with the nutriments from on high. However, to do this, we must lay aside some things- malice, guile, hypocrisies, envies, and evil speaking,