LUKEWARM IS WORSE THAN COLD...WHY?

IT TURNS PEOPLE AWAY FROM CHRIST.

Rev 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.


one of the GREAT PROOFS THAT THE BIBLE IS TRUE IS:
(REAL) Christians are different from other people,,,,,,,,,they are filled with the FRUITS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (love, joy, peace, forgiveness, helpfulness, gentleness, etc)


Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.



lukewarm christians are just like the world..........and that "proves" to the world that the Bible is "false"............

Mat 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

a lukewarm (fake) christian offends people (in that, he turns people away from christ, and hinders the spread of the Gospel)........and lukewarm is WORSE than COLD

Who will get the worse punishment?.........lukewarm or cold?...........it's the LUKEWARM





The three Great Proofs that the Bible is True.

1. Fulfilled prophecies (predictions of the Future).
2. The Great Love found in the Bible.
3. The changed lives of the believers.

1. Isaiah 46;9,10 Amplified Bible
“I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like Me, Declaring the end and the result from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not yet done.”

The Christian Bible (the Old Testament and the New Testament) are the only Scriptures in the world which contains predictions of the future. About 30 % of the Bible is Prophecy (predictions of the future). And a majority of these prophecies have already been fulfilled. Some of the Prophecies await their fulfillment, such as the Second Coming of Christ.

2. The Bible (both Old Testament and New Testament) commands us to “Love God, and Love your neighbor as yourself”. No-one (except God/Jesus) has ever “loved his neighbor as himself”. Each person is far more concerned with his own life and comfort than his neighbor’s concerns. Jesus told us to “Sell all that you have and give the money to the poor”. This is an expression/example of the great Love that God/Jesus has for all people. Did Jesus practice what he preached? Yes! He said “I don’t even have a stone to lay My Head on.” Jesus REQUIRES that we love with Extreme, Intense Love; He loves with Intense Love, and He REQUIRES that we be like Him. And when we fail to love perfectly, He is slow to anger and eager to forgive.
God’s standards of Love and Righteousness are far higher than ours. If we reject His rule over us, He punishes with great punishment. If we live in Intense Love, He gives us a Great Blessing (Jesus, Heaven, salvation from sin). He is TESTING our faith with a GREAT test. We pass the TEST when we obey Him and His Bible. (Genesis 22;1, 12) The TREMENDOUS test has TREMENDOUS consequences (an eternity with Jesus or Satan). “God is love.” And He wants us to be like Him. He wants to Love and be Loved.

3. We see few Physical Miracles, such as instant, blatant Divine Healings. But, think of the many changed lives that we see in the followers of Christ. When we “believe in our Lord Jesus Christ”, we obey His teachings and Commandments. And that “belief and obedience” results in astounding changes in our lives. We are in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit of God/Jesus, and the “fruit” of that in-dwelling Spirit is Love, Joy (gladness), Peace, Patience, (an even temper, forbearance), Kindness, Goodness, (benevolence), Faithfulness, (Meekness, humility) Gentleness, Self-control (self-restraint, continence). Galatians 5;22 Amplified Bible.
The Spiritual Miracles (such as the “born-again experience”) are far greater miracles than the physical miracles. Think of the GREAT difference between the gentle, helpful, wise, loving Christian,……. and the selfish, lazy, bitter, foolish un-believer. We must be “born again, a new Spiritual birth from Heaven”. The Holy Spirit causes us to be Spiritually alive towards Christ.

Ask Jesus to “Come into my heart” today.


Dennis


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Thats right those fruit of the spirit is very in imporant. To be a christian is to be holy like jesus and do the
things that are holy like jesus. Like keeping the commandments, lets look at one of them.

Exodus ch20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exodus ch31:14 14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 31:15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

Hebrews ch13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever

A person can have the fruits of the spirit and keep not the commandments or
keep some commandments and not all. This is what James said about that.

James ch2: 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

The Dietary law is very important. Leviticus ch11:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, 11:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. 11:3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. 11:4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. 11:5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. 11:6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. 11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you. 11:8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.

11:9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. 11:10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: 11:11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. 11:12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
:44 For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 11:45 For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. 11:46 This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth: 11:47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.

That a part of being Holy (a christian) Jesus ate clean food.

Lets look at the Lord High Days, that some people don"t keep.

Leviticus ch23:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
23:4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
Read the rest on your own. These are most of the thing that consist of being Holy.
Then a person can get away from being lukewarm.

When you only get a little of something...you become immune to it. This is the principle behind innoculations.

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John