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LUKEWARM -- COMPROMISE -- FRIEND

"Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears." Acts 20:28-31

Psalm 101:2-8 I will be careful to lead a blameless life- when will you come to me?
I will conduct the affairs of my house with a blameless heart.
I will not look with approval on anything that is vile.
I hate what faithless people do;
I will have no part in it. The perverse of heart shall be far from me;
I will have nothing to do with what is evil. Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret,
I will put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart,
I will not tolerate. My eyes will be on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; the one whose walk is blameless will minister to me.
No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house; no one who speaks falsely will stand in my presence.
Every morning I will put to silence all the wicked in the land; I will cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.

LUKEWARM COMPROMISING CHRISTIANS
1. They only come to God when they have a problem.
2. Their Christianity is what can God do for me? How can He make my life better?
3. They don’t obey the Word of God and even try to twist Scripture to justify sin. They call obeying the Bible legalism or radical.
4. They think they are Christians because they do good deeds or go to church. They live like devils 6 days a week and are holy on Sunday.
5. They compromise with the world because it’s the most popular choice.
6. They only want to be Christian because they are afraid of hell.
7. They have no repentance. They are not truly sorry for their sins nor do they want to change.
8. They think they’re saved because they compare themselves to others around them.
9. They never or rarely share their faith.
10. They care more of what others think rather than the Lord.
11. They don’t have new desires for Christ and never did.
12. They are not willing to make sacrifices. If they do make sacrifices it will be close to nothing and it won’t affect them at all.
13. They love to say things like do not judge.
https://biblereasons.com/lukewarm-christians/

Spiritual compromise happens when you view salvation as a human endeavor rather than as an act of God.
Spiritual compromise can happen even with leaders who should know better.
Spiritual compromise happens when leaders want to please the people rather than please God.
Spiritual compromise happens when you become impatient waiting on God.
Spiritual compromise happens when you want a safer, user-friendly “god” who will work for you.
Spiritual compromise happens when you excuse your sin and don’t accept responsibility for it.
Spiritual compromise happens when you refuse to submit to God’s ways.
https://bible.org/…/17-avoiding-spiritual-compromise-exodus…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=23&v=znWu2HCJ92c&feature=emb_logo

Alan Jackson - What A Friend We Have In Jesus (Live)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2FqFLKisys

Eye Of The Storm - [Lyric Video] Ryan Stevenson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6qXfZPtzsM&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0Zq1AmmM0yoWXxR8nFWkdfkmFlkN7xFtil4cMhOfd0uGX-HSqsTZH94DA

Matt Maher - What a Friend (Official Lyric Video)

1 Cor. 10:10:11 These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

12 So let the one who thinks he is standing be careful that he does not fall.

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Disclosure: Much of what is in my posts are things I have compiled through the years and I do not know if they have copyrights. What I do know about origin or website I give credit and have tried to always post a link to the origin. I do not market anything in any way on this blog -- I merely hope it will encourage and inspire others.

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LUKEWARMNESS -- RENOUNCE -- REPENT

I know lots of confessing Christians -- of whom most have been lulled into apathy & then drawn into LUKEWARM CHURCHES.
YOU (my brothers and sisters in Christ) ARE IN MY PRAYERS TODAY!

FORGIVE US LORD, AS I HUMBLE BOW BEFORE YOU THIS MORNING,

CONFESSING MY OWN LACK OF SENSITIVENESS TO YOUR WAYS AND TRUTHS ALL TOO OFTEN

AND

FOR BEING A FREQUENTLY COMPLACENT PLACATER --

PLEASE HELP THE BODY OF BELIEVERS (aka the church) RETURN TO OUR FIRST LOVE OF JESUS

AND TO GOD'S HOLY WORDS IN SCRIPTURES --

REVIVE AND REFRESH YOUR PEOPLE, I PRAY

Repent by Steve Green with Lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=23&v=HO5nWZD8Tt0

Revelation 3:14 And to the angel (messenger) of the assembly (church) in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the trusty and faithful and true Witness, the Origin and Beginning and Author of God’s creation:
15 I know your [record of] works and what you are doing; you are NEITHER COLD NOR HOT. Would that you were cold or hot!
16 So, because you are LUKEWARM AND NEITHER COLD NOR HOT I WILL SPEW YOU OUT OF MY MOUTH!

17 For you say, I am rich; I have prospered and grown wealthy, and I am in need of nothing; and you do not realize and understand that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
18 Therefore I counsel you to purchase from Me gold refined and tested by fire, that you may be [truly] wealthy, and white clothes to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nudity from being seen, and salve to put on your eyes, that you may see.

19 Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I TELL THEIR FAULTS AND CONVICT AND CONVICT AND REPROVE AND CHASTEN [I discipline and instruct them]. So BE ENTHUSIASTIC AND IN EARNEST BURNING WITH ZEAL AND REPENT [changing your mind and attitude].

20 Behold, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK; IS ANYONE HEARS AND LISTENS TO AND HEEDS MY VOICE AND OPENS THE DOOR, I WILL COME IN TO HIM AND WILL EAT WITH HIM AND, AND HE [will eat] WITH ME.

21 HE WHO OVERCOMES, (is victorious), I WILL GRANT HIM TO SIT BESIDE ME ON MY THRONE, as I Myself overcame (was victorious) and sat down beside My Father on His throne.

22 HE WHO IS ABLE TO HEAR, LET HIM LISTEN TO AND TO HEED WHAT THE [Holy] SPIRIT SAYS TO THE ASSEMBLIES (churches).

REVIVAL STARTS WITH REPENTANCE & RENOUNCING

THE SPIRIT OF ERROR

LUKEWARMNESS -

LIBERALISM - MODERNISM -TOLERANCE - COMPROMISE
RENOUNCE
TO SAY PUBLICLY
that you no longer own, support, believe in, or have a connection with something

TO REPENT IS
to be sorry & admit that you did something bad
or that you neglected to do something good (omission).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=9xPSr7lwjAc

Bonnie Keen, Donnie Sumner, Gene McDonald - I Have Returned [Live]

"THE ENTIRE BIBLE
IS ABLE TO HOLD ITS OWN
IN ANY KIND OF CONTROVERSY WITH HUMAN WISDOM IN ANY FORM."

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HOT OR COLD -- LUKEWARM CHRISTIANS

Revelation 3:14 “These are the words of the Amen, the trusted and faithful and true Witness, the Beginning and Origin of God’s creation:

15 ‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold (invigorating, refreshing) nor hot (healing, therapeutic); I wish that you were cold or hot.
16 So because you are lukewarm (spiritually useless), and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of My mouth [rejecting you with disgust].
17 Because you say, “I am rich, and have prospered and grown wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked [without hope and in great need],
18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold that has been heated red hot and refined by fire so that you may become truly rich; and white clothes [representing righteousness] to clothe yourself so that the shame of your nakedness will not be seen; and healing salve to put on your eyes so that you may see.
19 Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I rebuke and discipline [showing them their faults and instructing them]; so be enthusiastic and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God’s will].
20 Behold, I stand at the door [of the church] and continually knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him (restore him), and he with Me.
21 He who overcomes [the world through believing that Jesus is the Son of God], I will grant to him [the privilege] to sit beside Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down beside My Father on His throne.
22 He who has an ear, let him hear and heed what the Spirit says TO THE CHURCHES."

Stand for something have people for you & people against you. 

Stand for nothing have nobody for you & nobody against you.

The middle of the road is a poor place to walk.

INDECISION IS A DECISION!

Guy Penrod - Revelation Song

Your ears will hear a word behind you, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left. And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, “Be gone!” Isaiah 30:21-22 

Michael W. Smith - Secret Ambition
1 John 2:15-16 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.

2 Timothy 4:3-5 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
James 2:10-12 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.

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Disclosure: Much of what is in my posts are things I have compiled through the years and I do not know if they have copyrights. What I do know about origin or website I give credit and have tried to always post a link to the origin. I do not market anything in any way on this blog -- I merely hope it will encourage and inspire others.