Letters To The Church Pt. 7 - Laodicea

True Church Perspective

G. Craige Lewis

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🗓️ 7 November 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Christ told the church at Laodicea that He would rather they be hot or cold instead of lukewarm. What does this mean and how does it relate us today? In this message, Pastor Lewis discusses the meaning of this popular saying and how to properly apply it to our churches.

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0:00.0	We welcome you now to a true church perspective with Pastor G. Craig Lewis.
0:07.2	Revelation 3 and 14 starts out.
0:10.0	And unto the angel of the church or the pastor of the church of the Laeo Deceans write,
0:14.4	these things say it the amen, the faithful and the true witness, the beginning of the creation of God. He says, I know that works,
0:24.0	that thou are neither hot nor cold. I would that thou wert hot or cold. Amen. So then because
0:30.3	thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will what? Spue thee out of that mouth. This is probably one of the most misinterpreted passages in the whole Bible.
0:43.9	Man, church folk have butchered this up so bad to think that Luke warm is a church where folks ain't bucking.
0:53.9	Let me tell you. Okay, here are the different interpretations. The first one is. is a church where folks ain't bucking.
0:55.0	Let me tell you.
0:55.3	Okay.
0:57.3	Here are the different interpretations.
1:01.4	The first one is they believe that being hot is when you buck it.
1:04.5	And you're just lukewarm.
1:06.9	So you're just sitting there not getting with the preacher and the music.
1:09.1	How many of you was taught that?
1:10.1	Amen.
1:13.2	You know you was. I said, we're going to to be hot. This church going to be hot. Okay. So Jesus said he'd rather you be cold. So then they start saying that hot was,
1:21.1	you know, bucking the shouting church. Cold was folks in sin. So if you're not, if you're hot, you're on fire for the Lord.
1:29.9	Jeremiah said it's like fire,
1:31.4	shut up in your bones, bones, bones, bones, fire, fire, bones, bones,
1:36.8	fire, bones, bones, fire, fire, bones, bones.
1:40.2	Y'all remember them songs?
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