The Lukewarm Church

Scripture: Revelation 3:16-22
"To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ⁽The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this: I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. 'Because you say, "⁾I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,

John was left forsaken on the island called Patmos, but God never left him. In John’s time of abandonment on some of the worse piece of property; God showed him things to come. In this particular chapter, John was told to write what he saw and send it to the seven churches of Asia.

The seventh and last church was the Laodicean Church, which seems to represents the coldest and hardest of all the churches. They had left their first love. The first and greatest commandment is to, “love the Lord thy God with all of our heart, mind and soul.”

Being cold in this passage speaks of being formal or without spiritual life. Lukewarm represents straddling the fence or indifferent, as having religion but not a relationship with Christ. Hot would represent that believer that has a passionate love for Christ and walks in the path God has ordained for them.