I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other!“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
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Brace yourself and buckle up. You are about to hear a life-changing, history-making, world-defining message from the New Birth Podcast. Tell everybody you know, things will never be the same. Revelations chapter 3 verse 15 and 16. Amen. Great. Revelations, the third chapter, verse 15 and 16. Once you found it, once you say, I got it. Let's read it together with uplifted voices. I know your deeds. Lord, that's heavy right there. Come on, let's read it again. I don't want you to think this is for your neighbor. This is for you. Come on, let's read it again. I know your deeds. Bless the Lord. You may be seated. Amen. I'm starting a new series for the month of July called Minding Your Business. Minding Your Business. how you do business, what business you get involved in, the anointing for entrepreneurship, how to handle Christ-like values in a corporate structure. I don't want you to miss not one Sunday in July because we're going to be taking care of business. This is the first impartation of that series. Revelations 3 verse 15 and 16, I know your deeds. …
… is actually so startling that the commentators all wrestle with it. Notice what he says? He says, 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'm about to spit you out of my mouth. He says, I would rather you would be cold or hot than lukewarm. Now it makes sense for Jesus to say, I'd rather you be hot, because that's zeal. So it makes sense to say, I would rather you would be passionate and hot in your spiritual fervor and keenness and ardor for me. But he actually says, I'd rather you were cold than you were lukewarm. Now, what does that mean? What does that mean? Generally, to be spiritual cold, you know, means to not believe at all. And people really wrestle with this thing. Why would Jesus Christ say, it doesn't make any sense that he would actually say that it'd be better to be spiritually cold than to be lukewarm. But you know, if you've been in ministry for a long time, as some of us have, you know exactly what he's talking about. The commentators may not know, but I do, I think, and a lot of ministers do. I remember when Kathy and I first moved to Virginia and we tried to start to reach out to the youth in the neighborhood. …
II. I shall conclude with an earnest exhortation to all, no longer to halt between two opinions, but immediately to come to a determination whether to be Christians or not. Let me insist upon it, that you now make a choice, whether you will have heaven, with a life of universal and persevering obedience, for your portion; or hell, with a life spent in the pursuit of this world.—Consider those things which have been said, showing the unreasonableness of continuing in such irresolution about an affair of infinite importance to you, and as to which you have so short an opportunity to make your choice.—Consider two things in addition to what hath been already said. 1. Those who live under the gospel, and thus continue undetermined about religion, are more abominable to God than the heathen. He hates those persons who continue from year to year, under the calls, and warnings, and instructions, and entreaties of God’s word; who yet can be brought to nothing; who will come to no determination at all; will neither be Christians nor heathens. These are they who are spoken of in Rev. iii. 15, 16. “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.”—And Ezek. xx. 39. “As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God, Go ye. serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.”—These are (2 Tim. iii. 7.) “ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of the truth.” …