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In this little sermon, I've 
entitled it. 

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Are you hot cold or lukewarm? 
You remember last Lord's day? 

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We talked about measuring 
spiritual growth and when we're 

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finished with this lesson, I 
want you to privately ask 

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yourself. 
Am I hot cold or lukewarm? 

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The passes that we're going to 
be taking is Revelation chapter 

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3 and beginning in verse 15. 
I know your works that you are 

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neither cold nor hot. 
I could wish you were cold or 

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hot, so then, Because you are 
lukewarm and neither cold nor 

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hot. 
I will vomit you out of my mouth

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a couple of years ago. 
I gave a series on the seven 

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churches of Asia and the one 
that was considered the lukewarm

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church was the church at 
laodicea. 

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You remember that I was going to
take these two verses of 

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scripture and have a brief 
sermon on this particular 

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question. 
But remember this, when it talks

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about the seven churches of 
Asia, I believe that the seven 

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churches of Asia were literal 
churches. 

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So we're talking about specific 
things and specific people that 

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were literal that actually met 
and worship God, and Jesus 

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describes them in various ways. 
But secondly, in addition to 

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that, they also represent the 
various conditions that 

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congregations of the body of 
Christ. 

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Can find them self in today, not
only congregationally 

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collectively, but even 
individually as Jewel 

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Christians. 
Okay. 

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One of the brilliant things 
about the Lord is so many things

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that he wrote were so brilliant 
because he knew, he always knew 

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exactly what to say. 
And if you look at all the seven

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churches of Asia, you will find 
that Jesus uses illustrations 

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that they could have understood.
For example, in laodicea, it was

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known for their hot springs. 
They knew that and sometimes 

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there would be a hot spring and 
sometimes there would be a Old 

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Spring. 
Now hot is good, and cold is 

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good, but there were also times 
when the cold springs in the hot

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springs would merge and mingle 
and it would become lukewarm. 

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I actually read from one 
scholar. 

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That said, this makes it 
brilliant with the Lord, says, 

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that people would go and they 
would dip something down to get 

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some of these. 
Some of the water from the 

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spring thinking, it was either 
hot or cold, put it to their 

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mouth, and it would be lukewarm,
and they would spit it out of 

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their mouth. 
Jesus says, that's what you as a

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congregation are Hot springs and
Cold Springs. 

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That's good. 
You know, I thought about this 

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morning about coffee, got up 
really early with my study to 

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look over this little sermon 
that I decided to preach today 

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and I was drinking hot coffee 
and hot coffees. 

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Great. 
And cold coffee is great iced 

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coffee, but lukewarm coffee is 
not so great. 

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We need to do something with it,
like heat it up or put some ice 

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in it, but lukewarm is not. 
Great. 

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Let's go back to verse 15, Dan 
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What Jesus says he says, I know 
your works and he says this, you

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are neither cold nor hot. 
Jesus is knowing their condition

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and is assessing them by saying 
you are not hot and you are not 

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cold. 
You are lukewarm and what he was

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saying from a spiritual 
perspective. 

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You're no better than the 
notoriously lukewarm drinking 

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water that was in their town. 
He's taking their spiritual 

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temperature. 
Now, why does he say cold nor 

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hot? 
Well, hot is. 

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Obviously we, it's obvious Hot 
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Hot represents fervent and on 
fire. 

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Now let's not take this further 
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really is. 
Let's make it very basic and 

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very practical someone that is 
hot fervent and on fire is just 

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a faithful child of God. 
A faithful Christian where God 

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is number one in their life. 
God is at the Forefront of their

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thinking, they're trying their 
very best not perfect but trying

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their very best to be a 
Christian and live a Godly life.

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That's all that means. 
Don't think that this means that

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they are people that read Some 
higher level of spirituality. 

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So what that means, that all our
higher level of Holiness is just

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talking about a faithful child 
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And Jesus says, I wish you were 
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We understand about hot. 
But why cold? 

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First of all, understand this, 
there's no blessing and there's 

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no reward in being cold. 
What is he talking about? 

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Well, I think that a cold person
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I think a cold person represents
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non-Christian I don't think cold
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That quit the church. 
I don't think it means that at 

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all. 
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by saying this, if a person is 
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better to quit the church and be
cold. 

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And the Lord would have more 
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quit. 
I don't believe that's the 

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context here at all. 
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this, it's better if you were 
hot, why? 

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Because if you're hot the word 
of God is still working in your 

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life, you're still aroused by 
the the words of God. 

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If you're cold, you're an 
unsaved sinner. 

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You're a non-Christian, you know
what? 

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You're not saved in that current
condition, but the word of God 

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still can prick your heart, and 
you can change and you can obey 

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the gospel and you can be saved.
I think that's what cold means 

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now. 
What about lukewarm? 

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What about lukewarm? 
What's it mean to be lukewarm? 

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I think lukewarm is a 
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deceiving himself into thinking 
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I think it pictures. 
The person that is pretending to

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be something he really doesn't 
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I think that's the one and 
here's the big word, we always a

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bad word hypocrite, that's 
somebody that's going through 

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the motions. 
That's somebody that lives, a 

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sinful life, for six days, does 
whatever they want, worldly 

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life, but they're there on 
Sunday, their ardor Church. 

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They're pretending to be 
something they never intended to

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be. 
That is a lukewarm Christian. 

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And Jesus said that they this 
congregation they were all 

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lukewarm but there's another 
reason to there's another reason

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to please get this. 
Have you ever stopped to 

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consider that a lukewarm 
Christian will do more to harm 

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the church than an unsaved 
sinner? 

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You know why? 
Let's just use me. 

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Okay, let's just put it all on 
me. 

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Let's just say, I'm not living 
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that I am living a life that is 
worldly or sinful that I'm 

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participating in sinful 
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others that I should not. 
But I profess to be a member of 

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the church. 
I profess to be a Christian and 

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I tell people that I'm a 
Christian, what happens is 

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people that are in the world, 
compare their life to mine and 

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they say this, I'm as good as he
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In fact let me just tell you but
all the things that Frank does a

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lukewarm Christian will do more 
harm than an unsaved center. 

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Now I have to tell you this okay
got to say this most people that

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don't want to obey the gospel 
and become a child of God and 

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change their life. 
They make the decision first 

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then they look to somebody else 
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their choice. 
I believe that I believe a 

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person will do exactly what they
want to do and then figure out a

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way to blame somebody. 
D or cause somebody to be the 

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culprit as to why they won't. 
And that is the clear thing that

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we always hear there's 
Hypocrites in the church or in 

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the religious world, right? 
We hear that all that is is 

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somebody justifying their 
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to do what's, right? 
It's somebody that's living a 

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double life. 
When we do that, we do more harm

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than an unsaved Center. 
Burton Coffman says this though,

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he said this church had lost its
enthusiasm Zeal and excitement 

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concerning their, holy religion.
Through the Ages, they have come

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to stand for the most disgusting
thing on earth, they had become 

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a fat lazy self-righteous into 
place at church basking in their

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own presumed achievements, but 
completely unacceptable to the 

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Lord, very strong words, very 
strong words indeed. 

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So in Revelation chapter 3 and 
verse 15 Jesus says, I know your

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works. 
I've assessed you, you're not 

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hot. 
Or cold. 

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But I wish you were cold or hot 
but you're not the next verse. 

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So then because you are lukewarm
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I will vomit you out of my 
mouth. 

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I have to say something to, 
that's I really want you to get 

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this. 
We don't ever want to have the 

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words come out of our mouth. 
Get in or get out. 

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Or you might as well just quit. 
Don't ever let those words come 

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out of your mouth to somebody 
that's struggling. 

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Spiritually. 
You know why they just might 

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quit? 
We don't want that. 

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Do we? 
I know the father that 20 some 

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years ago told his daughter that
was struggling spiritually you 

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got to get in or get out and if 
you're not going to get in you 

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might as well get out. 
You know she did she got out. 

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You know, all these years have 
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out. 
We don't want to say that at 

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all. 
What we want to say is, is get 

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in. 
Stay and hang on, don't quit, 

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don't you? 
Dare quit. 

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Even if you're hanging on by a 
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You hang on. 
That's what we want to tell 

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people because you know why 
we're going to find that. 

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If you're lukewarm, you can 
still get hot. 

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Hold that thought Burton Kaufman
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Do about the idea of being 
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He said this shows the contrast 
between the hot and medicinal 

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Waters of hieropolis and the 
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There's the distinction, thus 
the church was providing neither

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refreshment for the spiritually 
weary nor healing, For the 

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spiritually sick. 
You got to, you got to get hot 

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is what the Lord say. 
So let me just say this in 

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conclusion, I told you it's 
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I've done that has been 10 
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Heart is fervent and on fire for
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What is that? 
That's a faithful Christian. 

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If you're trying to live a 
Christian Life That's you. 

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If God is first in your life 
that is you that is you as a 

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child of God, what's cold? 
That's the unsaved sinner. 

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That's never obeyed. 
The gospel is that you today? 

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If that's the case, all you have
to do is obey the gospel be 

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baptized for the remission of 
your sins and guess what. 

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You can be hot. 
A faithful Christian lukewarm. 

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Though is the hypocritical 
member living, a double life and

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is self-satisfied with his 
current condition. 

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I read one scholar. 
One time that said that a 

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lukewarm Christian. 
Unfortunately, one of the 

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dangers, he doesn't even know. 
There's a problem, just going 

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right along. 
Satisfied and content just going

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right along. 
So let me ask you this. 

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As I said, I would do this at 
the end of our lesson. 

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Let me ask you the question. 
Are you hot? 

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Are you cold or are you lukewarm
now? 

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If you're cold. 
Come believing in Jesus. 

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Repent of your sins confess, his
name as the Son of God and be 

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baptized in water for the 
remission of sins. 

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Now, if you're lukewarm, maybe 
you're looking at this passage 

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that we noticed and it seems 
kind of harsh. 

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Let me tell you what, the Lord 
said, this is all you have to 

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do, this is beautiful. 
The Lord said in verse 19 of 

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Revelation chapter 3, as many as
I love. 

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Get that as many as I love. 
I rebuke and chasten. 

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Therefore be zealous and repent.
That's all you got to do, 

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repent. 
Make those changes in your life.

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