The Lukewarm Church

 In Revelation 3:15-18
   "I know your works, that you are neither cold or hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my Mouth. Because you say, I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see."
   These list of verses are dealing with those who claim to speak the Truth but are selling you a false gospel which will lead to judgment from God. As I was thinking today preachers are hirelings that is you are paying them good salaries to tell you what you want to hear and there is no truth what they are telling you. In Jude 4, "For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God in to lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ." As I look at scripture, I don't see Peter or Paul and James getting paid to preach the gospel, they didn't sell the gospel they told the the Truth. Everything has change since the early apostles the gospel has been compromise. The first thing we see in examining verse 15 is that Christ sees your works, which would mean that faith alone is a lie and it is the devil's faith. James warns us today in chapter two verses 18-22 "But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe and tremble! But do you want to know O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Issac his son on the altar? Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect." Anybody can say they have faith but it is true faith that acts and demonstrates that it is not dead because by doing you have real faith.
  As we continue He talks about hot and cold this speaks of someone who is indifferent or a double minded man and a double minded man is someone who produces good and bad fruit which is not according to someone who is a good tree because they produce good fruit all the time. They claim to be wealthy, but only in their own eyes they have wealth that the world knows of not the true spiritual wealth that God offers to his children. He speaks of those who claim to be wealthy and they are arrogant as to say I need nothing but in reality they are poor,blind, and naked and this demonstrates their heart condition that they think they know Him but they do not. He even gives them counsel by saying buy from Me the gold that has been refined in the fire so it is able to be obedient to God. He speaks of them as being naked and they do not realize that they are, again they are blind and they are in need of eye salve so that they can see the Truth about themselves and who God is. Again this is the state of the Church no matter if you are Reformed or Arminian in the Protestant denomination. The best thing for you to do is get out of the churches because they are preaching false doctrines and they will destroy your soul and you will end of in Hell.