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Well, what is Luke warmness and what barometer would we use to gauge whether or not we are

Luke warm ourselves, Pastor John offered a clear definition and a gauge for us to use in his sermon

on Revelation chapter 3 verses 14 to 22. A text that includes Jesus's words to the church

in Leodicea where he says they are, quote, lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, end quote.

And then of course Jesus threatens to spit them from his mouth in Revelation 3 16. It's a haunting

text. So what is lukewarmness? Here's Pastor John to explain in the sermon he preached way back

in 1983. The essence of lukewarmness is the sentence I don't need it. I need nothing.

I have enough of Jesus. I walked the eye one day and he came into my heart and I have him. I don't

need anything. The lukewarm are spiritually self-satisfied. To find out whether you are among that

number now, don't look in your head and ask whether you think that you're a sinner because you

all do. You've been well taught. The way to tell whether you are among the number of the spiritually

self-satisfied is to look at your prayer life. There's the barometer. To tell whether we are in the

bondage to spiritual self-satisfaction, the question is how frequently, how earnestly,

how expectantly, how extendedly do you strive with God to have a deeper knowledge with Christ?

Greater earnestness in prayer, more boldness in witness, sweeter joy in the Holy Spirit.

Do you long for deeper sorrow for sin, warmer compassion for the lost, more divine power to love?

Are you going after God in your prayer life hard every day, often long? And if not, that's the

barometer of whether you're spiritually self-satisfied, not what you think about yourself in your head.

Does the coolness and the perfuncturiness of your prayer life stack up to exhibit a that you are

spiritually satisfied and therefore lukewarm and therefore on the verge of being spit out of his

mouth? Now, Jesus has a word to you and to me if we think we need nothing at the beginning of

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