Are we hot or cold…or lukewarm?
We Can’t Be Lukewarm
Revelation 3:15-16 NLT – 15 “I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other! 16 But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth!
Jesus is addressing one of the churches listed in the book of Revelation. Jesus is telling them he knows everything they are doing, but they are not going after God very strongly. They are going through the motions.
Jesus is telling me that either be all in or all out, don’t be in the middle. Don’t be lukewarm.
Our family had a discussion the other night that even those that reject God will give him glory. Everything will give him glory. In Isaiah 45:23 it tells us that every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord. There will be no exceptions. But if you don’t bend your knee before you die, it will be too late to choose Jesus. In our lives, that is God’s plan…. to give him glory.
When we knock on doors and no one answers, or there isn’t anyone that has any interest in God. That still brings him glory. The act of us knocking on doors in faith brings God glory.
When we go door knocking, we don’t open gates. We respect the privacy and ownership of their property, and a closed gate is an implied, Do Not Enter. In those cases, we will leave our information on the gate for fence and go to the next house.
A man came out to the sidewalk, holding our flyer, yelling “hail Satan, 666, hail Satan, 666!”
The same night we had the discussion about God getting glory, we had a man in his 20’s come out of his house after we put our info on the fence. We were about four houses away and he was yelling, Hail Satan, 666.
My first response was, “really?” Maybe it came from a heart of sadness for this man. I don’t know, but then again, I know that God will get glory from everything. I then said to a couple of my kids that at least he is not lukewarm.
Other Recent Newsletters/Stories
Ayudame
Ayudame – Help Me We will go anywhere to talk with people about Jesus. Just on the other side of the border there are many people in desperate situations. These are great opportunities to help and also to share the love of Jesus with them. We have gone across the…
November Updates on Evangelism
November Updates on Evangelism What have we been up to?In the past few months we have started working some new fields. We will go wherever we can find people to talk to. Wherever there is a crowd…. let’s go!YOUTH GROUPS: Our kids have been attending several different youth groups and…
Where are the Workers?
Where Are the Workers? Jesus tells us about the Harvest in the book of Matthew…Matthew 9:37-38 NLT – 37 He said to his disciples, “The harvest is great, but the workers are few. 38 So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send…