Turn Up The Heat | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | May 26, 2022
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🗓️ 26 May 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.7 | Our Reading title, Turn Up the Heat, was written by Patricia Rabin. |
| 0:15.7 | Temperatures where we live in Colorado can change quickly, sometimes within a few minutes. So my husband, Dan, |
| 0:23.8 | was curious about the temperature differences in and around our home. As a fan of gadgets, he was |
| 0:30.6 | excited to unpack his latest toy, a thermometer showing temperature readings from four zones around our house. |
| 0:39.7 | Joking that it was a silly gadget, I was surprised to find myself frequently checking the temperatures, too. |
| 0:47.1 | The differences inside and out fascinated me. |
| 0:51.3 | Jesus used temperature to describe the lukewarm church in Laodicea, one of the richest of the seven cities cited in the book of Revelation. |
| 1:02.3 | A bustling banking, clothing, and medical hub, the city was hampered by a poor water supply, so it needed an aqueduct to carry water from a hot spring. |
| 1:13.6 | By the time the water arrived in Laodicea, however, it was neither hot nor cold. |
| 1:20.6 | The church was tepid too. |
| 1:23.6 | Jesus said in Revelation chapter 3, |
| 1:26.6 | I know your deeds that you are neither cold nor hot. |
| 1:31.4 | I wish you were either one or the other. |
| 1:34.6 | So because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth. |
| 1:43.3 | As Christ explained, |
| 1:49.0 | Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. |
| 1:53.0 | Our Savior's plea remains urgent for us too. |
| 1:58.0 | Are you spiritually neither hot nor cold? |
| 2:02.5 | Accept his correction and ask him to help you live an earnest, fired-up faith. |
| 2:14.0 | Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Revelation chapter 3, verses 14 through 22. |
| 2:23.1 | To the angel of the church in Laodicea write, |
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