...makes them above being spoken to, and to which the words of the Apocalypse, perhaps, best apply : " For thou sayest, I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing, and Thou knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable, poor, blind, and naked." (Apoc. iii. 17.) One...

...self-righteous ones, — ye who are highly esteemed amongst men, and highly esteem yourselves, — ye who say, I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing, and thank God ye are not like other men, especially like the poor backslider, who awhile ago you heard...

...treasures of his grace, and says, " Ask, and ye shall receive," with Laodicean arrogance he replies, " I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing." And so long as the man thus walks contrary to God, God walks contrary to him. God resisteth the proud....

...through presumption ; guard against that. Feel, 0 Christian, that you always need to pray. Say not, " I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing." Thou art by nature still naked, and poor, and miserable ; therefore, persevere in prayer, and buy of...

...Church was more "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked" than the one that said, " I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing." Indiscriminate praise would be as injudicious and blameworthy as unqualified censure. Our condition,...

...foolish. It is our utter emptiness that fits us for receiving the heavenly fulness. So long as we say, " I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing," we obtain nothing from God. When we are content to be nothing, then we obtain everything. It is the...

...from God. The Pharisee was like those Laodiceans, to whom God sent a message by St. John : " Because thou sayest I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing," mark that, "have need of nothing" — the Pharisee had need of nothing — " and knewest not that thou...

...what earnestness we need to sound in the ears of this man the words of Jesus. "Because thousayest, I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked : I counsel thee to buy of...

...at Laodicea ? Will not a just interpretation of many of its acts and ways bring forth the words, " I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing " ? And do not its prayers meet with this reproachful answer, " Thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor,...

...because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked ; 18. I counsel thee to buy...