The lukewarm syndrome and what it means to you..

 

Simply put it is a condition of mixing hot and cold. It is the melding of opposites. The compromise of values and ethics. The friendship of the world which is enmity with God. Oh, but wait, the cry will go out – God loves everyone; we all serve the same God; and why can’t we all just get along?

 

How I would have loved to live in the 1^st century where you didn’t have to worry about 401’s, retirement accounts, or a bigger SUV or BMW. 

 

It would have been good not to have people cut you off on the highway doing 85 or discussing which psychiatrist or SSRI was best for you. Nor, would you have all the constant drone of competing denominations with their dogma’s, papal bulls, or religious world ecumenism.

 

Where the fear of loss would have been replaced with the hope of eternal gain. Where the Blessed Hope which is only found in Jesus Christ and only He has to offer. Where instead of trying to find “safe havens” of where to put our temporary assets of physical gold; maybe we would have given it all away in the hope of a better resurrection and not regarded our lives unto the death..

 

Where it might have been good to live in the catacombs (caves) sharing a warm fire and a few crumbs of stale bread with a true brother or sister talking about the Lord and the eternal promise of life over death in Him than witness a land of complete strangers separated by politics, dissention and pride.

 

Maybe it is good not to give in to the consensus of political correctness and suffer the glaring rebuke of being called hateful and not inclusive of the “feelings” of others while even the people closet to you offer their reproach.

 

All I can say is I have not done this for money. I sell no products as a result (I was accused of being a salesman), and I have tried in earnest to warn people -

 

Jesus said in Rev 3:15:

 

“¹⁵I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. ¹⁶So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. ¹⁷Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: ¹⁸I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. ¹⁹As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. ²⁰Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me”.