Bible Questions Answered:
“I have friends, don't pray before
meals, don't go to church often, certainly don't think they tithe,
but they're always saying, “we're Christians.”...You talked about
lukewarm, is this it?...”
Claudia/ Fort Myers, Florida U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Text:
Our Lord
told the 1
st Century Church of Laodicea, that they were
lukewarm.
Revelation 3:16 KJV
So then because thou art lukewarm,
and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of My mouth.
Many have denied
The Lord Jesus, and many more will, but their judgment is set.
Matthew 10:33
KJV
But whosoever shall deny Me before
men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
Matthew
26:33,34,69,70 KJV
33 Peter answered and said unto Him,
Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be
offended.
34 Jesus said unto him, Verily I say
unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny Me
thrice.
69 Now Peter sat without in the
palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus
of Galilee.
70 But he denied before them all,
saying, I know not what thou sayest.
Mark 8:38 KJV
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed
of Me and of My Words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of
him also shall The Son Of Man be ashamed, when He cometh in the glory
of His Father with the holy angels.
Luke 12:9 KJV
"...he that denieth Me before
men shall be denied before the angels of God.
Acts 3:14 KJV
But ye denied The Holy One and The
Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
II Timothy 2:12
KJV
If we suffer, we shall also reign
with Him: if we deny Him, He also will deny us:
II Peter 2:1,2
KJV
1 But there were false prophets also
among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you,
who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying The Lord
that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their
pernicious ways; by reason of whom The Way Of Truth shall be evil
spoken of.
I John 2:22 KJV
Who is a liar but he that denieth
that Jesus is The Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth
The Father and The Son.
Rewards
await those who remain faithful to The Lord Jesus, and confess Him,
openly, by what they say and what they do.
Matthew 10:32
KJV
Whosoever therefore shall confess Me
before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in
heaven.
Luke 12:8 KJV
Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall
confess Me before men, him shall The Son Of Man also confess before
the angels of God:
Romans 1:16 KJV
For I am not ashamed of the gospel
of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one
that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Romans 10:9,10
KJV
9 That if thou shalt confess with
thy mouth The Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God
hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth
unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation.
Philippians 2:11
KJV
And that every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of
God The Father.
I John 2:23 KJV
"...he that acknowledgeth The
Son hath The Father also.
I John 4:15 KJV
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus
is The Son Of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
Are the “Lukewarm,”
lost?
Let's ask Jesus!
Revelation 3:16 KJV
So then because thou art lukewarm,
and neither cold nor hot, I
will spue thee out of My mouth.
Emetic: That
which causes vomiting.
“ I will spue
thee out of My mouth.” This statement by our Lord, is a saying,
of absolute disgust, and unspeakable loathing!
The Lukewarm,
prefer a relationship with the world, and God, Baal, and The Lord,
unbelief, and belief, wealth, and The Lord Jesus, Christ, and Belial,
A marriage of
darkness and Light, which we know, just cannot be.
Matthew 6:24 KJV
No man can serve two masters:
for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will
hold to the one, and despise the other..."
1 John 2:15 KJV
Love not the world, neither the
things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of
The Father is not in him.
Revelation 3:17
NLT ( Laodicean Church, a wealthy church)
knowest not that thou art wretched,
and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
By Jesus saying
this, He was stating the fact that, they did not have on a robe
of righteousness.
Revelation 19:8
KJV (God's people.)
And to her was granted that she
should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen
is the righteousness of saints.
Isaiah 61:10 KJV
I will greatly rejoice in The Lord,
my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He hath clothed me with the
garments of salvation, He hath covered me with the robe of
righteousness, as a Bridegroom decketh Himself with ornaments,
and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
What happens to
those without a wedding garment of righteousness?
Let's ask Jesus.
Matthew 22:1-14
NLT Parable of the Great Feast
1 Jesus also told them other
parables. He said,
2 “The Kingdom of Heaven can be
illustrated by the story of A King who prepared a great wedding feast
for His Son.
3 When the banquet was ready, he
sent his servants to notify those who were invited. But they all
refused to come!
4 “So He sent other servants to
tell them, ‘The feast has been prepared. The bulls and fattened
cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the
banquet!’
5 But the guests He had invited
ignored them and went their own way, one to his farm, another to his
business.
6 Others seized His messengers and
insulted them and killed them.
7 “The King was furious, and He
sent out His army to destroy the murderers and burn their town.
8 And He said to His servants, ‘The
wedding feast is ready, and the guests I invited aren’t worthy of
the honor.
9 Now go out to the street corners
and invite everyone you see.’
10 So the servants brought in
everyone they could find, good and bad alike, and the banquet hall
was filled with guests.
11 “But when The King came in
to meet the guests, He noticed a man who wasn’t wearing the proper
clothes for a wedding.
12 ‘Friend,’ He asked, ‘how
is it that you are here without wedding clothes?’ But the man had
no reply.
13 Then The King said to His
aides, ‘Bind his hands and feet and throw him into the outer
darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
14 “For many are called, but
few are chosen.”
The Lord Jesus
Christ, has a message to a last day lukewarm church, and or
individual, stop kidding yourself, you are...
lost.
Proverbs 16:25
KJV
There is a way
that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of
death.
Romans 8:9 KJV
But ye are not in the flesh, but in
The Spirit, if so be that The Spirit Of God dwell in you.
Now if any
man have not The Spirit Of Christ, he is none of His.
Matthew 7:21-23
KJV
21 Not every one that saith unto Me,
Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that
doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to Me in that day,
Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have
cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess
unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity.
A church of great zeal and fervency, and yet a church of “no,”
holy, set apart living for The Lord Jesus. A church which thought it
could “buy,” its way into heaven, through good works or money.
At best (says Jesus) they were hellish workers of iniquity, for they
were on their way to judgment, but not only that they were
evangelistic as to recruiting other poor souls, to blindly join them.
Ephesians 2:8,9 KJV
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is The Gift Of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
II Timothy 3:5
KJV
Having a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
What is the answer,
to lukewarmness?
Proverbs 28:13
KJV
He that covereth his sins shall not
prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
I John 1:5-10
JKV
5 This then is the message which we
have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God is Light, and in
Him is no darkness at all.
6 If we say that we have fellowship
with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not
The Truth:
7 But if we walk in The Light, as He
is in The Light, we have fellowship one with another, and The Blood
Of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves, and The Truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, He is
Faithful and Just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
10 If we say that we have not
sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.
II Corinthians
6:14-18 NLT The Temple of the Living God
14 Don’t team up with those who
are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness?
How can Light live with darkness?
15 What harmony can there be between
Christ and the devil? How can a believer be a partner with an
unbeliever?
16 And what union can there be
between God’s temple and idols? For we are the temple of
The Living God. As God said: “I
will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they
will be My people.
17 Therefore, come out from among
unbelievers, and separate yourselves from them, says
The Lord. Don’t touch their filthy
things, and I will welcome you.
18 And I will be your Father, and
you will be My sons and daughters, says The Lord Almighty.”