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OPENING
We are continuing this week with our sermon series, “Souls on Fire.”
Last week the title of our message was “Between Bethel and Ai.”
Last week was all about understanding that there is no time to try to hang around in the middle when it comes to serving God.
There is no neutral ground.
You are either in or you’re out.
You are either saved or you’re lost.
You are either moving closer to God or you’re moving further away from Him.
I encouraged you last week to make up in your minds, like Joshua, and declare “as for me and my house, we are going to serve the Lord.”
This week I’ve titled this message, “White Hot Holy Fire.”
Churches and Christians can get complacent.
We can get to the point sometimes when we feel like we’ve got everything we need.
We can feel like we’ve gone as far as we need to go in our relationship to God.
I had someone just the other day at work tell me, “If you’re not growing, you’re dying.”
There is a lot of truth to that statement regarding our relationship with God as well.
If we do not continue to grow everyday in our walk with God, we will begin to die spiritually.
In the book of Revelation, Jesus had to remind the church in Laodicea, one of the seven churches in Asia Minor, about the danger of spiritual apathy, or a lukewarm spirit.
Today we’re going to talk about our own danger of falling into a condition of a lukewarm spirit and what it looks like when we are “Souls on Fire” burning with a “White Hot Holy Fire.”
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Laodicea was known for a few things:
Financial wealth
Beautifully colored fine clothing
A popular eye salve that was exported all over the world
Worship of the Greek god Asklepios, the god of healing
Very bad water
Laodicea’s Water Supply
No suitable water source in Laodicea
Water was transported by a 6-mile aqueduct from hot springs near the city of Hieropolis
The water started out hot, but by the time it reached Laodicea, it was lukewarm.
Lukewarm Water is Disgusting
Hot and cold water are useful
Hot water = sanitizes and cleans
Cold water = refreshing
Lukewarm water is not only, not useful, it is just gross
Jesus Compares Lukewarm Water to their Spiritual Condition
Complacent (Have No Motivation)
The most difficult person to reach for Christ is the one who has just enough of religion to think they have enough (David Guzik).
Self-Reliant (Have Need of Nothing)
Self-sufficiency is Satan’s net, wherein he catches men, like poor silly fish, and does destroy them (Charles Spurgeon).
Apathetic (Have No Zeal)
My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great (John Wesley).
There are a lot of Different Types of Fires
Phony Fire
Fleshly Fire
False Fire
We Need a White Hot Holy Fire
Never Let It Go Out
Don’t Quench It
Jesus Came to set the World on Fire
Outpouring of the Fire of the Holy Spirit
CLOSING
Jesus called the church in Laodicea to repent
Jesus said He stands at the door and knocks
Jesus gives a promise to those who overcome
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