The Lukewarm Church | Pr Matthew Chang

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We hope this message will light up your day.

If you can turn with me to Revelations chapter three.

I'm gonna be covering one of the churches and it's

actually the last church.

It's called the Lukewarm Church. Since we're talking.

About revival, right, Oh look warman revival. Who doesn't like

that topic?

Man?

Okay, So but before we go and read the passage here,

I'm going to give some introduction and a bit of

our background about this church. And so when you read it,

you won't just read it as a passage from the Bible.

Now you begin to read it with a bit of understanding,

with a bit of context, and after explaining it.

So when you read you start to have an understanding.

Oh, this is what maybe our Lord Jesus is trying

to refer to as well. But before I read, I

want to let you know that God is the God

of big and he's also the God of the small.

Said that God is the God or the general God

is also the god of the specific as well. You

get what I'm saying. No, you're not just a Malaysian,

you are your individual. God has a general calling God

also has a personal calling.

You know what I'm saying. A lot of people just

live as a Malaysian.

There's a Malaysian government, but they don't live as if

there is a father in the house.

You know what I mean.

Right, They just do their own things, you know, they

just do the own thing. But I want to let

you know that God is very specific and as you

read through and as explained you read, you realize that

God is very actively and keenly what they call it,

involved in your own personal life, whatever that you're going through.

Okay. So this city is called the city of Laodica.

Okay, at least I pronounced it called Laodica Okay, leo

dca Okay, sounds very great.

Okay.

So now this city was is actually quite a young

and new city Okay by the age, only founded about

two hundred and fifty years before Christ two hundred fift

years considered quite young.

Okay.

A very rich city, Okay, a very rich city. You know,

for a few reasons I'm going to share very briefly

with you guys. One of the main reasons why is

because they are very strategic. They are at the center

of a lot of what they call it important trade

roots and sow their function as a very important commercial

hub as well.

And because they are so rich.

And one of the ways that the cities, you know,

if you are very successful and you're rich, you flaunt

or you make a name among all the people in

the region or from overseas as well, is that you

display through buildings and architectures as well. There is why

you see Rome is very nicely decorated, you know, with

a very grand called the coliseums and pthaters temples and

they also had that as well. Okay, very very nice building, stadiums, marketplaces,

and they are one of the richest cities, you know,

top five at least in Asia minor.

Now.

Three things that actually made them very rich, Okay. One

I mentioned before is that they are very strategic and

they are also a center of commerce. When I say

they are center of commerce, they not just a they've

got a few banks, you know, not that just one

of those sections fifteen, or got mainbank, public bank, hold

on bank, whatever bank. You know, you go there, not

just there or not. They are so rich, Okay, they

have their own goal. Okay, they are so rich that

when they had an earthquake, you know, Normally when cities

have been earthquake, they will go and ask, you know,

a can you federal government, can you please go and help?

You know?

Recently, there's a fire in in San Born. There, okay,

how many of you saw about two weeks ago there

was a fire.

I think how many houses are? Almost a thousand?

About a thousand houses are It looks like the whole

entire map, but looks like a cigarette bunging. Some of

you look at me. I don't know why it's happening. Okay,

you know, oh because they are so packed.

I don't know.

One fire just swip through and oh it's just looked

like secret oh or so bad burn everything. And normally

when you have an extreme natural disaster, you go and

ask a better government, can you give us an a okay,

So this cityo d year they got struck by earthquake,

and they were so rich they didn't need assistance from

the government.

It's okay, we can help ourselves.

It's like when you get sicker, you don't need to

apply for insurance right now. It's okay, I you know,

I just I just touch and go to you. They're rich,

you know what I mean, they don't need to call

any one one, and now they we can't help ourselves.

It's so hey, you know, that's that's how their flegs lie.

You know that they were so rich because of that.

The second thing they were very known for as well,

they had this very special black wool, you know, that

they had because of their what they call it livestock,

especially their ship. There's black color, natural black color, very fine,

very nice to feel, and it's considered a luxury item

as well, so people come and flock to buy the wolves.

They have a lot of products as well. From there

you can see Bosace, you know, Gucci, Dashade as well,

all the famous names. And the people at that time

got taste one okay, okay, no, they got they got

taste for the finer things in life or so there's

the truth is the truth.

They have a taste for the finer things in life.

They really know how to Okay, not all of them,

some of them know how to enjoy life and now, okay,

so they were very so because of that, they were

known for it as well. And the third thing they

were very known for was actually medicinal products.

Okay.

One of the things they were known for is actually

called the eye medicine, or it's actually a form of

a powder.

They call it the Few region powder.

You can go and check it out, but basically it's

like an ointment and a south and sometimes a powder

form that people will mix it up and then apply

it on their eyes. It's found through some kind of

set found on localized the area, and people from everywhere

will come and actually buy from them as well, and

so you know they will rich. They got style and

they can heal as well. Man, they got everything they need. Man, okay,

they got everything they need. And so now it's a

good time to read what they call it the verses,

and you start to realize that, hey, although Jesus is

not in their era, and so that when God speaks

to them, God speaks to them in the context of

their living. And this is a very important teaching, you

know why, because a lot of things that happen in

your life are not coincidences.

You know that God might not just speak generally.

That God can speak specifically through you through events in

your life and whether you are really awake spiritually to

hear and to discern maybe God has been speaking you

through people, through your dreams, through events, things in your

life God is trying to wake you up, but you said, nah,

I cannot be. It's just man, you don't realize it.

But that God speaks to your situation and speaks to

this particular entire city specifically.

Okay, so that's very very important. Okay.

Now let's read the verses. Okay, I put it up here,

just to tree. Verse fourteen. Now it says and to

the Angel of the Church of the Laodicians. Right, these

things says, the Amen means this are this entire verse.

Here is the title that Jesus assigns or being given

to Jesus specifically to be revealed who he is to

this particular church. So Jesus is revealed as the amen

means what definitely or let it be?

So let it be? So?

Okay, this thing says the amen, the title, the Amen,

the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation

of God. These are the titles God. As Jesus has

many titles, but he has chosen these three titles to

be revealed about himself for this particular church. Then Jesus says,

I know your works, okay, that you are neither called

nor hot. Okay, I could wish you were cold or hot.

So then because you are a little warm and neither

call nor heart, I will meet you out of my

mouth because you say I am rich.

Ah, what do they tell you? Guys?

They were rich right, so was. It's just on the

next door hearing them. This is not just one person,

This is the entire city speaking in their hearts.

Okay, what has been breaming?

What they've been meditating in their hearts and not boasting

in their hearts? Every you know what they call it, locals,

You know what they feel inside. Jesus says that you

have said that you are rich and have become wealthy

and has need or nothing. It's not that you're rich, No,

it's what you conclude after you become rich. Okay, God

is no problem you become rich, But it's what you

conclude about life that is alarming. You conclude that you

need you have need of nothing. That's the problem. You're saying,

Oh God, that's one of the best of know. It's

because when you have you say you don't need nothing.

Oh God reads their hats. Okay, God reads their hearts.

He didn't have to go and look, he didn't. He

don't have to go into Instagram and look, hey, what

did you say the six months ag He knows exactly

where your heart is. Okay, But and do not know

that you are wretched, You are miserable, you are poor,

you are blind, and you are naked. Notice the kind

of adjectives that are being used to describe this, uh,

the locals and dyssa wretched, miserable, poor insteall of rich,

blind instead of seeing, and naked instead of clothes. Not coincidences,

not coincidences? Okay, Then in verse eighteen, Jesus says, I

counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire.

They have their own goer. But Jesus said, I counsel

you to buy go from me, that you may be

rich instead of being rich in your own eyes and

white garments. You think it's a coincidence that Jesus mentioned

white comments here.

Now you're like, oh, oh, or this not a coincidence?

White garments, That you may be clothed not clothes in

a way to give a sort of impression that you

are successful in the eyes of the world, that people

can judge you by the suit or the handbags that

you wear or the watches that you have as well okay,

that the shame of your nakedness.

May not be revealed. Wow? Is it?

Because that everyone was dressing to cover their own insecurities

and shame, But God gives another level of covering that

your true shame will not be revealed and annoying your

eyes with eyeself that you may see not depending on

your own that your own medicine isn't it? Now you'll

realize that a lot these verses starts to make a

bit of sense right now, build sense right now, let's

read on. And as many as I love, I rebuilk

and chasten.

Wow.

A lot of times, you know, we imagine that if

Jesus comes out, of course Jesus is love live, you know,

but you know we think that sometimes, you know, some

people think have an impression that Jesus is a teddy bear.

You know, Jesus is a teddy man. Man when he comes,

it's gonna hard meet man. But if I read the

verse become people, that's not my Jesus. I tell you,

people say, that's not my Jesus. That's not my brand

of Christianity. And you go in online right now, people

will create different versions of Christianity, you know, to South.

They are kind of Christianity and religion. Some people have

changed the Bible as well. Some people picture them Bibles,

picture them books of the Bibles. Some verses they interpret

differently because they cannot reconcile. They cannot reconcilt with their

own lifestyle because the moment God would take priority and

take but they got it, uh take eminence right. Their

lives become undone. They have to give up so many things,

you know, which is harder to trust God or to

give up their own to trust God, or to trust

their own lives, or to cling on to what they have.

What is His name?

Then it says, therefore, be zealous and repent. Okay, I

want you to highlight those two words, zealous and repent.

And he says he verse twenty before, I stand at

the door and knock. And if anyone hears my voice

and opens the door, okay, here and open, I will

come in to him and dine with him, and he

with me. And to him who overcomes, okay, I will

grant to sit with me on my throne, as I

also overcame and sat down with my father on his throne.

That he who has an ear, let him hear what

the spirit says to the churches. Oh right, So how

do you feel after reading these verses?

Still a woman? Huge? Right now, Teddy bear?

The people think, but I tell you that, you know,

it's kind of funny that we had no.

Homes last week just this week. Right?

What was the title about the Fear of go? Yeah,

they can thank me for writing the notes. Okay, kind

of kind of similar theme, man, Yeah, no, like Friday

read or not I have today, Like it's like fear

of God.

No.

But but but the truth is a lot of times yes,

it's Christianity is not about feeling, you know, It's about

truth more than any more than anything else. Truth is

the one thing that you cannot replace one. And no,

it's irreplaceable one. Okay I'm saying not so. And when

you begin to leave your life not based on feelings,

but based on truth, based on what is irreplaceable, you

are unshakable one and all really really unshakable one. Whether

you go through a good time a bad time, whether

the world is up there or down there or shaking,

their life continues to have a meaning and purpose. Okay,

So now I want to talk about you know, uh,

this part in verse fifteen. Okay, Jesus says, I know

your works that you are neither call nor hot, and

I wish you were call all hot. So then because

you are little warm and neither call nor hot, I

will meet you out of my mouth. Now, this is

a very famous part that has been preached by many

pastors and many just before. I just want to explain

a bit of context. So now we've established that Laodicia

very rich. Okay, strategy, they got style, Then they got

a lot of solutions, answers to medical things. But out

of all these things, then they still lack one very

very important thing thing that a city needs.

No, what's that thing? What do they lack? They don't

show the slides yet. What is that? What is what?

When you if you're going to start a civilization, you're

going to find us start a city. What's the one thing?

What's the one important thing you really depend on to

begin a civilization order or a village?

Was it? Someone says something? Sorry? A king?

Yes, yes, you need a king, but many places don't

have a king as well. What's the one important resource

that you really need?

Land?

You need land, you are water. One of the most

important thing you need is water. I can tell you

you can like food, but I tell you today, just

for tomorrow, if no water comes into your condor or whatever,

that you will suffer, trust me or not? How to

flush after you PUPA huh? You want to leave your

place unwashed for one day? One day, just one day,

no shower for one day, just one day, You'll be

crying off the top of your head, just one day.

On here.

I cannot imagine how important water and sewage is it now?

It's so so important, and this is one thing that

this city doesn't have. But despite this lack of this

strategic importance water, this city still finds success and people

still want to stay there because of what other resources

they have as well. And so where do they get

their water from? If they don't have a natural water source,

where do they get their water from? They get their

water from two key places, right, two key places. So

I'm gonna show you a map here. Okay, do you

see Leodisicia in the middle there? Okay, sorry if the

phone is a bit too small to you. So Leodissia

is at the bottom there, on the left side there

and the top and on the right there there are

two important cities Okay. At the top there there is

hot because the Herepolis okay, Hereopolis there, and then at

the right side there we have the coloss A.

Okay, so now I just want to make sure that

I got it right.

Let me just check my notes, apologizer, just want to

make sure that I really get my notes correct.

Do do.

Okay, because suddenly I mix up the thing. So now

if I'm not mistaken, Colosse say, Colosse could be wrong.

And then suddenly I don't know why, my missoule thing.

I think here Appos is the place where you have

the mountain waters. Correct me if I'm brong, somebody can

double check me in Okay, suddenly my back run.

There are two places.

One is the mountain areas and one is the what

they call it the hot spring areas. Okay, so Herepols.

Actually it doesn't sound right. Colosse is the cold water. Yeah,

Colosse is the coll water. Actually, okay, Colosse is the

call sudden my mind, I can remember, Colosse is the

cold water. So they will have what they build. What

they do is that they're actually the mountain waters. They

have a snow cap okay, mountain, what are the snow

and then melt and the waterway actually flow down and

they will actually build these pipes okay, all the way

from there and then channel it the way all the

way down to Laodicia. And then the other place where

they have is at Herappoli. Is there where if you

see this beautiful or instagrammable hot springs wanna, these are

called the hot waters hot springs. They'll actually flow down

all the way and they also use the pipe okay,

all the way going to Laodica. So if you go

to the next light there you actually can see the pipes.

They are actually still existing. Just so that you know

I'm not bluffing you, Okay. Some of you are like

this past the really reaching, you know, really really reaching

today you think I'm not.

Okay, I'm telling you the truth. Okay, this is the truth.

If you go back to the previous like okay, this

pamel Calay is actually a very famous I don't know

where there's a wonder bies how many you've been to

Pamela before.

No, no, they're in the permaclay house the water there.

Do they allow you to go in? I don't know

whether that some hats allowed.

Right, you flew over Okay, yeah, it's very it's very famous.

You go online National geography, you should be able to

see that the very famous. Okay, now both water sources

actually directing down all the way to Lao this year.

Now the waters from you go back to the Okay,

let's keep there. No that the previous one. Sorry, okay,

the waters from Heropolis are actually very cool, very nice

to drink one.

How many of you like to drink hold water? Of sure?

I mean nobody likes to drink like warm. That's just

generally no bust. People like to drink whole water on

huh warm.

It is good.

I know it's good for your I know it's good

for your thing. But my mouth, heaste tells me and anohing.

You know, you know nowadays we have too much information

is that we should drink water, but actually we want

But most people when they are hot, they desire cold

one okay most most most of the time. But hot

water is not They don't live like us. Hot water

is desirable for a different thing. Why is hot water

desirable for when they go to the hot spring? Well,

not for tree in one min lower their time they

go no tree in one Their eyes are telling me

they were not selling boat. They don't know hot water

was famous for what?

What? Healing?

Why does it make sense when you go to the

Romans to Rome? What do they have plenty there? Romans?

You know? Roman buff is actually one of the signs

of Roman luxury? Did you know that?

And if you go to Roman but normal bus are

just not normal about the bus are layer one? Know,

so the richest people will have the hottest water, and

then after they showered, the left over waters are going

down to another level where people like you amediate to

use one needs go down and down on a few

levels one and there they got system one on there

they don't have cold weave giving you hot water.

Okay. Then you're like, oh.

My goodness, I'm bathing using people's left over hot water.

But that's how it is, Okay, it is how it

was done like that one Okay, there was so they

had Roman But if you are rich enough, if you

have your own bath system as well, really proper bath one. Okay,

So if you go and study, it's like that. And

so having a hot water was a sign of luxury

living for health, okay, please, it's not about treating one coffee.

Okay.

So when you think about cold and hot water. You

must have a different mindset at that time. Coal is

to drink, hot is for healing. Okay, so now let's

move on there. So because of that, Jesus begins to

to Jesus recognizes what.

They actually have as well.

But when the water's actually reached them, what happens to

the water.

It says that it became little warm. You know why,

it's little warmer.

It's not just the normal water you get, you know,

non just buy it off, you know, a family mine.

You know.

It's not like that warm is warmer. It's like the

type of temperature when you warming. If you right now,

if I ask you the vomit, if I ask you

the vomit, now you take the temperature that's lute warm

and I actually to drink that water. Now you like

you got grossed out right now? You are all grossed out.

Right now, you're like, oh, that's what you men look warm.

It's not mineral water called No, it's the body temperature.

It's like the type of water you're like, oh, nobody

likes it. So Colrosse has a big water problem. As

rich as they are, they have a big water problem.

People don't like their water. They get sick because of

the people comes like, ah, you are rich, but your

water is making people sick.

There has one of the highest penetration of cholera.

And you know just what they call it uh food

contamination as well because of their uh loute warm water

and what made it lute warm?

What makes a water lot warm? Three?

I feel like I mean a lecture sasi, Yeah, asking

my student what makes a water LiOD warm?

Sorry?

Travel time? Yes, exactly. All the word I will use

is along the way, along the way. You see when

it travels, right along the way, what what happens? It

gets conditioned by the surrounding. It gets conditioning as you travel.

It's not just traveling. When you travel, you get conditioned

along the way by whatever that you pass through, by

the surrounding, by the temperature as well. You no longer

remain the same as you once started from. Life is

like there isn't it? Ah started on fire? Then your

children comes?

No time? Now you don't have children? Tell me how

to leave my life?

Oh we played that car with people you never maybe

don't tell me how to leave my how to leave

my merry?

We played that card? You know? Then after that oh,

what comes sous on? What comes us on?

Actually, I got a lot of things that don't want

to tell by it. I think I hold it back, right,

I got a lot of things, but hold it back. Yeah,

yes I will. I will in due time. Any time I.

Got, I gotta pick. I gotta learn to pick, you know,

I got to pick my bads.

I got a lot of things I want to tell

my children, but I gotta pick my bad But it's

along the way sometimes, you know, work comes. And actually

when I was working, I got offer a jobson to

work on Saturday the other day and one of the

best corporate finance equity from before time. Okay, so work

for this very famous Bach guy. You know, everything went well.

That was so. I was so proud I got selected

in that team.

You know, you're like, oh, you only get one selected

one and and the listen.

I was like, so proud I got I got.

Cruel when there I found oh you also the wook

on today, I'm like, then you ask this question? Now, God,

why you give me such an opening? Are you trying

to bless me or are you testing me?

You know? Have you you asked a question before?

You know?

I'm talking about you God, are you blessing me or

are you testing me?

No?

Make it clear to remove the temptation away. Lord, you

bring this girl into my life. It's Lord, are you

testing me or not?

I mean right?

But I tell you this is a very important theology.

And God will never force you to follow him man,

He will always give you an option always. Today I

just thought I was preaching at the Breakfacer. You know

why is a good example. Of course, you can talk

about adamant if giving having a trader, but think about

Peter when even after Peter denied Jesus, right, how did

God restore him? Jesus actually went to the sea where

Peter was fishing. Peter went back to the thing that

he did before following Jesus. He backslided so faster that

his name from Peter became Simon.

That's how how bad he backslided. From Peter became Simon.

And so Jesus went all the way back to one

stage one to restore Peter, met him and where he is,

and but he didn't follow See Peter, you deny me

three times? Are you going to follow me back? And

he didn't say that. What did Jesus do? He saw

Peter what he was doing, and he actually blessed him.

You know, cast your net on the right side.

He caught so much he could, he could survey one

year for written on and God will give your heart's

desire and make it there. He won't force you. And

he said that what did he What did Jesus ask him? Peter?

Do you learn me more than all of this? And

all of this?

I will give you what you pray for, give you

all that you want, all your mistakes. You'll deny me

three times? You don't, don't. People will read about it

for the next two thousand years, about in the about

your failing in the Bible.

It's quite a nice deal. How many of you want?

Your mistakes are to be revealed for the next two

thousand years on the Bible. Peter, you messed up big

time life. You can heap it all wiped out your name.

Don't have to follow you live your own life and

you got blessed and that's it.

Or you choose to follow me your weaknesses and everything.

I will use you know what I'm saying? All is

it amazing? God will always give assault. I always say people, Now, Pastor,

is this job a blessing for me. It's I said,

what is It's not just about what God giving? What

is God asking you to choose?

Yeah, I mean said now and what discernment has He

given to you to choose? Then you decide. I'm saying no. Now,

everything that gets is gold. People, it's the truth. But

now I'm creating a lot of confusion in your life. Ready, no, Pasta,

you're not making my life easier. Pastor, I go better

and fast and another one more days. Ready, I just

finished pasting. Ready, now the prayer. Past already? Okay, good,

let go for you. Okay, but it is the truth, okay, everybody, Okay,

So okay, let me finish the life. So along the way,

we get conditioned by circumstances in our lives, by temptations,

and then you realize that it's very, very, very challenging.

Okay.

So now let's morn so a faith that passed by condition,

by the environment, and it's emerging different from the sauce,

and it's coming out as loukewarm. Sometimes you are neither

hot nor cold, and it's sickly to drink now a

long the time. Man, there's the thing you know, when

you're look warmer. You don't just stay your woman. Now

you kind of want to tell yourself that you're okay.

It looks like water, smells like water, feels like water,

but it's totally different from its sauce and some of

the things that you begin to tell yourself. You begin

to say, well, I am wealthy, I don't need anything.

I'm fine, I'm spiritual. I come to church. You know,

I sing loud and I clapt during worship time as well.

I sound and feel like a typical, perfect tempered Christian.

By inside, you are miserable. You know what I'm saying.

My Christian life is about which church I attend and

label myself.

Labeling.

You know what I mean, right, It's an exercise or labeling. Okay,

next life can go to the next one. Okay, no

worries me. Okay Now. Jesus then proceeds to tell them

to do what I counsel you to buy from me,

go refined in the fire. Jesus is telling them, you

see all these things you accumulate.

You buy with your wealth, Bawan.

Let you know that in the Kingdom of God, the

thing the only acceptable currency that you can use to

obtain anything that is off goal or what we call

eternal value eternal value. The goal of the earth has

permanent value. The goal of heaven has eternal value. Okay,

what can you what can you buy it? You cannot

buy with Malaysia ring gage, you cannot buy with bitcoin,

you cannot buy if anything else you can only buy

with faith that everyone always have the option to exercise

no matter how hard your circumstances is.

You can always choose faith.

Even a robber or a criminal who is hanging on

the cross, he can still choose faith. In stripped of

nothing shame by the public, on your last dying breath,

you can still choose. You can still exercise faith. As

long as your brew have breath. You can choose faith. Yeah,

I mean I nothing in this world. You can not

say all my circumstances, I don't have time for growth

and faith.

No, no, no, you always have Okay, So to buy? What

to buy?

Go refine in the five minutes goal that actually lasts

and that is tested. There's pure and eternal and white

garments that you may be clothed. You want style about

only clothe that God cares for you is that you

have proper covering that you may be saved. There's a

time I will teach you guys about the concept of covering.

Okay, but I don't have time today.

But the covering, okay, that covers with not material think

that covers with righteousness Okay, righteousness okay, and soft that

you may and sorry, and anoint your eyes with eye

sound that you may see.

Okay.

Now, So now in verse nineteen, Jesus says, as many

as I love, I rebulke and chase them. Therefore be

zealous and repent. Okay, can you go back to that? Yeah,

just give it to this line. So if being cold

and being hot sae, so it being lukewarm is undesirable?

Okay? What does being cold and being hot spiritually actually mean? Okay?

Before now, so Pasta, you're saying being the worm is

no good? So should it be hot should be called?

What does being hot spiritually mean? What that's being called spiritually?

Me?

Which one do you preve her? Who wants to be

called spiritually? Who wants to be hot spiritually? Are you sure?

Some of you?

Like I know, I know you're starry Pasta man, I

know your tactical right there. You always give you always

you always give us a fake, fake, move on a head, shagen,

Am I going right?

Am I going right? Fake? Fake? You not he pasta.

You cannot fake me?

Really?

Some of you like, no, no, no, I'm not buying that.

You know no, So tell me is it? What is

this just talking about? Neither hot nor care.

I always believe that the way to interpret scripture is

always using scripture.

To aid to interpret scripture is in scripture.

The key to interpret a lot of things is always

in the scripture if you want to interpret, and times

are of revelation as you use scripture. Actually a lot

of the keys are in the Bible. So the key

to do this, as I draw eventually is actually in

these two words. To be zealous and to repent. Okay,

to be zealous and to repent. Now, let's talk about

a core Christian. Why is a core Christian? It's a

core Christian? Good?

No, it's not good. Lie.

If you talk about currently like we say, hey, I

am a core Christian, yea, nobody's abana. We always identify

col Christian as someone who doesn't attendure, doesn't read Bible,

don't don't pray anymore.

That's what we think. It's core. But you must understand

the viewers don't read the scripture like we do.

They think when they this this letter was written to

the Laoticians. When they think about cold water, what do

they think about? They think about the water they came

from close saying, they think about the cool, refreshing water

that is unlike the liot warm water they have in

level this year. So what does it mean cold water

is desirable? Is the desirable waters that I is called

one hundred plus that I want?

You know what I'm saying. You know, when Jesus says

that cold it actually means that. So if cold water

is desirable, what is the opposite then? Or what is

the loot? Warmness? Then means that you are undesirable. When

you are little warmed, you are undesirable. Then you ask

another level, what is an undesirable Christian?

What is an undesirable spiritual state that God really dislikes?

It's written there the type of heart that is not

willing to repent. There is why Jesus the be zealous

and repent. The first one is repent. There's nothing and

the more undesirable than a person who chooses not to repent,

even when they know they are poor wretched and naked,

unwilling you. I'm saying, now, but what is the most

desirable Christian or believer, or child or daughter before the

eyes of God? One day is broken, humble, contrite, and

nothing ready, and they saying, God, you have your way.

I'm wrong.

The one that fears God more than anything else, the

one that is willing to repent, you come saying now.

So when we talk about what a day is called

means a person who is having such a broken and

repentant heart. There is why Jesus repent. So when we

we don't repair, we've come to that. I don't think

my Christian life is wrong. So if a pastor comes

here and tells me and speaks to me something I'm

uncomfortable with, I change church first. That's the first thing

I change church. I'm not saying that you cannot change church. Okay,

I'm not trying to retain membership. I don't think we

are there in that member We're not horror. More importantly,

I tell you the most important thing is truth. More

than anything else. You cannot take ext membership, can't enter

into heaven and pe say okay, we don't sell that.

We don't sell that do we sell there. We don't

sell there. People are sorr. Yeah, we don't have that membership.

We don't sell there. The only thing you can is

the blood of Jesus.

Stuff. We don't sell there in all. We don't sell

that at all. But the truth is that's why that.

When you when when someone speaks to you something it's

very painful, meanstells like hey, directing it personal? He asked,

does it speak truth? And are you willing to recognize

something is wrong?

Yes?

The delivery sometimes the way it could be done, but

I did end of the day. Can you see God

speaking behind them? Be I'm saying that a lot of

people cannot look past the messenger and look at the

king that sent it.

A lot of people.

How many times have people turned away the messenger because

they doubt? You know, they're turned away the message and

because they a doubt the messenger. And that is to

your own demands, you know, because you like discernment and

wars have been waging this world in the history of

this world because they turned away the messenger before you can.

I mean right, they're not perfect. I guarantee you far

from perfect, like you and me as well. Sometimes could

be even of lower staters than you. But yet the

message what are they saying as well? So the first

thing that we doing, if we want to make ourselves

core desirable in the eyes of God, first is that

we are humble and repentful, repentant before God. Now, why

is a hot Christian? Then hot Christian means like yeah,

you know, shout out and everything. But I remember, like

I said, what what is the reader considering the time?

They don't ge attentions like we do want to know

this different? Now, okay, when they think about hot water,

what do they think about the hot water?

Off?

They think about what healing? But Jesus asked them to

do what to be zealous? What does zealous actually mean?

The zealous means boiling over, boil you forgot and you

boil something. You know, you boil your hardboard, you forgot

off the water. Then you suddenerate everything, all the water

spilled out, and then you know, you close your fire

and your guests, you know, boiling over. This caused zealous

boiling over. So what is the opposite of a zealous

and zealous? And hot is such a word? And hotcall

and hot or lukewarm Christian? It's a poor person who

is not zealous means when you, when you, when you

believe in God, your faith must flow over to touch lives.

The waters in Pamelkalay was so attractive that people from

everywhere comes for the water for healing. Is your life

as a Christian overflowing with the truth, with the wisdom

of God that everyone around you wants to come to you.

Because it's overflowing.

You come saying not A lot of Christians say, I

just want to seemer, I just want to remain. Look,

I'm comfortable that no one in this world will want

to come over for you.

You're just having enough for yourself.

The whole Christian life is just about God blessing me, me.

Going to the country that I want.

Maybe I want to immigrate this I was just this

is the only thing that I want.

I don't care about anything.

You know, when I was young, I want to want

to go to Australia until God said no, no, Australia, kill

my dream of eighteen years. You know what, there's a

saying on you know what I do have? Timer needs

a very important thing, very very important. A lot of

people this very great importance on calling and I was

preaching about calling on ab Abs agree, it's very very important,

very very important, and I believe in calling on God.

But a lot of times when people receive the calling

of God, they don't realize that the moment they begin

to respond to the calling on God, there are two

forces drawing you, the voice of God and the voice

of the enemy. What can possibly happen when a person

is walking along the calling of God? What can possibly

go wrong? What can possibly go wrong? Just ask, just

ask Father Abraham? What can possibly go wrong? This guy

I followed God to the tea, left his father's house.

What can possibly go wrong? When you follow off the

colling on God and each mail can come out? I

can tell you why you can follow God for so

many years. Ninety he followed God up until he was

ninety years old. I think it's nine years old. None

about ninet years old. He got about ninety plus ninety

nine like that, okay, up to ninety as well. It's

like nine out of ten. And he follower and then

he decided to do things out of his own way. Oh,

he used his own strength to fulfill God's calling. And

he called it Ishmael. You know I'm saying now you

can be so focused on. Oh, God has given me this.

He told me he will start this ministry. He told

me he will do this and do that. And you're following, Hey, God,

this is not working out.

Man.

This person's supposed to help me, betray me. You're supposed to.

Have this funding, didn't get provided, supposed to go in

go to this place, but didn't get fulfilled.

And you do everything out of your own stream.

Eventually, I think God is telling me that I need

to work harder to make it work. By the way,

only God helps only those who help himself out.

You see.

Our theology changes along the way. When we know get man,

we start, we start the ship go posting here along

the way. I'm telling you all this because I've been

there before. Okay, we start to go along the way

and we start to make things happen. Oh, I think

God is not responding to me. Now it's coming here

where there you get a child and you get ismail.

You know, Oh this is God. Thank you God.

You post on Instagram, thank you, thank you. You know.

But God said that's not the one that given to you.

Go ahead to send the two angels are to come

to Abrahama and this time you will have a son,

not Ishmael. And through your wife Sarah, not through your maid.

You're telling me all this war is not you can't

have what you want. You think you're having the calling

on God, but yet you still missed it, and it's

become a curse for you. You know, And you say, oh,

maybe I heard the calling of God wrong. No, it's

not because you hurt the calling of God wrong. It's

because you did it out of your own strength. You

want the ministry so much, you want a success so much,

you want this family so much that you did it

off your own strength. So one of the things that

a lot of people will testify when they really really

find and see God's hand in their life is that

when you pursue the calling on God, you will realize

that God begins to kill.

That calling inside you.

If God begins to kill that man, kill your dream,

kill your strength, and completely cut you off, that you

gave up doing this, and then the calling comes out.

I didn't do anything but in this mystery, come to

my pace. You know you I'm saying. You know, it's

kind of funny you all, because you know what. Finally

you desire to let God take the main driver's set.

Me. You just were like, oh, how do you want

to do anything? Ninety nine years old came out Isaac.

You know people everybody started to realize, became blessed. You

know you can.

I'm saying no, because you would try to do out

of your own strength. God that to kill that man,

God that to kill that Peter. You know, really that

Peter died or not really died that you know at

the breakfast day, No, Simon, you love me more than

all these Someone salla, Lord, you know all things I

did not break anymore. But you know that's all I'm Lord.

It doesn't matter what I say. I got nothing. But

if you know that is enough. It's such a humble

thing to say. You know, if we finally saw that

Peter of all died, now none that Simon died.

Now Peter arose and you in.

Your own calling is so you start to realize something.

You don't be surprised if what you want. Sometimes so

much gets notified and you feel like, oh no, that's

the new beginning. You begin to walk in God's grace

and some of you you might feel that God is

speaking through that like oh no, no, and you get disappointed.

Ah, now we'll never.

Trust God again. Trust me, I've seen it so many times.

God is just getting started with you. God is just

getting Don't be afraid of failure. Don't be afraid of

set back. Don't be afraid all you have to stay

in this place or anywhere. I want it, because what

you don't get what you wanted, you feel like you

hold the rest of your life. You're gonna set up

for economic class. You're gonna say, no, we feel like

we settle for economic must be settled. When you think

like that, you do not glorify God. And all you

understand now, when you think like that, you do not

glorify God. You know what I'm saying, No, No, I

don't care what you do in worship. When you think

like that, you're not glorifying God. And what I'm saying no,

So worship and praise is more than just that it's

in your heart.

What are you willing to accept?

Embrace that God's plan for you, even if it includes

dying to a lot of things as well, and letting

God take control.

Amen?

All right, this is all repent means what God said

that I want.

I don't want a liut warm Christian. I don't want

a warm church.

I want that it's cold and that is hot, one

that is called that is repenting, humble before me, willing

to take my corrections, willing to buy gold from me.

We need to take the clothes that I give to him.

We need to take my eyes out that he may see,

and willing to be zealous for me.

You know what I'm saying.

No, it's like a tree that is willing to bear fruit,

not willing just to settle. You see, there's the problem

with the as a close to as a closet. That's

the problem with Laodica. Despite them having such a critical problem,

know what the source right, because they were stop saying,

we cannot find anywhere else to find such a strategic

place to earn money. We cannot find anywhere else to

find this you know, this wool and you all and

this eyeself. No, we're willing to tolerate it. But God

gave them warning. You know what was the warning. It's

not just the water. They actually had a lot of earthquakes,

you know, literal shakings. You know, talk about revival. Revival

means that someone is sleeping on God literally put earthquake

in them.

You all.

Seventy years before this letter was returned, there was a

great earthquake, and they say, it's okay, we don't need

money from the government. We can We got money in

my bank account. I can't set to day. God shakes

you in your life. I don't know what kind of

shaking God had happened. Maybe you had a dream, Maybe

you have a health scare, maybe you have a financial

scared or something like that. I'm not trying to be anything,

but I'm just saying that you have to understand. God

can speak for anything one. God can speak for anything one. Now,

God gives you warning, it's very specific in your family.

But whether sometimes you wake up or sometimes you thinker

the things like ah, what do you do? You begin

to spiritually dismiss all these things because you were unwilling

to change. You were unwilling to begin too fast and

to have a spiritual vigilance. Said, God may be speaking

to me, I need to wake up. But you continue

to slumber and you stumble. This city eventually got destroyed.

Today it is no longer there, no longer there.

You know why the earthquake finally destroyed it finally destroyed

by earthquake you all you see the shaking can happen.

Continue revive what God said? God said, Revival said, reviv

shay shape shape.

You don't want to respond, Continue to be unrepentant, Continue

to live in your own comfortable things until the shaking,

until the grounds beneath you come down. But those who listen,

I don't know how many did they continue to move.

You may not have the things that you are, but

you are at least having your spiritual life restored, you know,

realizing that this earth is just temporary, but what we

want is more eternal.

So my question is here, It's God, are you Are

you hearing and seeing the shakings that are happening in

your life? Are you really hearing and seeing the shakings

in your life? Or are you so insistent on what

you want that you chill? Now?

Very personal, isn't it. I'm sure that many of you

have dreams in it. We ALWASO have dreams on someone?

If you had desires from young or so? I'm sure,

but I want let you know, God, that's not short

change anyone. The plans that God has for you you

can never even dream about. You may ever dream about,

but what you can offer today is that God, I'm

willing to make room. I'm even willing to start from

zero because i know there's no one else I'd rather

to be on the driver's seat than you.

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