Revelation
3: 15 17: I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were
either one or the other! So, because
you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you
do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
The passage in Revelation 3: 14 – 22 addresses the
church of Laodicea. Their material prosperity at the time caused this church to
be spiritually asleep. Jesus Christ described this distasteful condition as
“lukewarm” and invites them to repent of their condition and make him the
centre of their love and passionate worship once again.
Hypocrisy based on false (materialistic)
self-confidence makes you lukewarm which represents being unendurable and
distasteful to God. Christ’s warning is that he is about to spit you out of his mouth. You may be lost forever.
Yet
Christ’s encouragement, his promise, is that he stands knocking at the door of
the household of his faith community. If we hear his voice and
open the door, he will come in, have true fellowship with us again and feast
with us. Jesus wants to change distasteful, unfaithful, lukewarm Christians
into enthused, passionate and useful followers of Christ again.
Jesus is ready to cover the shamefulness of our
unfaithfulness and restore his relationship with us that we may experience the
full and complete blessing of true fellowship with him and of meaningful
worship once more.
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