Now, Colossians is a great book to debunk the false doctrine of church ages, okay?
There's a false doctrine out there taught by dispensationalists called church ages.
If you've never heard of it, let me just give you a brief synopsis of what this is.
The doctrine of church ages is the doctrine that teaches that the churches found within
Revelation chapter 2 and 3, specifically the seven churches, are not literal churches.
They're actually church ages, a period of time where churches existed and they all share
the same characteristic of this highlighted church.
For example, you have the church at Ephesus that was addressed in Revelation chapter 2,
right?
And what was the problem with the church at Ephesus?
Is that it had left its first love, right?
It says, you know, I have one thing against me, thou has left thy first love, repent therefore
and do the first works, amen?
Now what they'll say is that the churches within that time period were all struggling
with that.
So basically, the church at Ephesus represents many churches within that time period that
were all struggling and they're all leaving their first love.
They weren't doing any soul winning is what that's saying.
Now that's ridiculous, okay?
And the reason why that's ridiculous is because we're independent churches.
And look, the church down the street does not dictate what kind of zeal and excitement
and passion we have here.
You know, look, and by the way, you can be influenced by churches, right?
So much the more today because of the internet, YouTube, social media platforms, you know,
but back then they didn't have YouTube.
You know, back then they didn't have social media, they didn't know what was going on
in some other churches unless they got a letter from them.
So to say that all these churches were struggling, they didn't like soul winning, they left their
first love, this is not true.
And you know, conveniently, they'll say that we're located today in the what?
The church age of what?
Laodicean church error, right?
And what was the problem with the Laodicean church error is that they were lukewarm, they
were neither hot nor cold, they were God's vomit because it says I will spew thee out
of my mouth.
It's not saying that, you know, that they're making God vomit, it says that they were God's
vomit.
That's what it was saying, I'll spew thee out of my mouth.
And they'll claim, you know, oh, you know, the reason people aren't getting saved today
and the reason we're not on fire for God today is because we're in the Laodicean church error
or age or whatever.
That's false.
That's right.