God has done with the church as a testimony, the moment Laodicea is spued out. And when the church has come to this entire state of failure, then Christ supplants it as the “faithful and true witness” of God. What the church should have done, Christ presents Himself as doing. Christ is the Great Amen of all God's promises; the church should have shown how all the promises of God were Yea and Amen in Christ Jesus, but the church has not been able to do this; it has failed to put its Amen to God's promises.
J. N. Darby
“We are a testimony to failure. The Lord makes us a testimony to His faithfulness. How humbling! It makes me weep, yet go on, not discouraged.”