Posted on 04/18/2020 8:35:12 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
...Southeast of the ancient city of Laodicea, the mountainous region of Hierapolis contained hot mineral springs that were believed to have healing qualities...To the Northwest were the mountains of Colossae, out of which flowed streams of ice cold water that came from melting snow.
Streams from both of these regions flowed down into pools outside of Laodicea, where they combined to form stagnant ponds of tepid water—neither hot (and good for bathing) nor cold (and good for drinking).
Either hot or cold is good but lukewarm is no good for anybody.
Just consider coffee. Is there anything better than a piping-hot triple-shot Americano in the morning? Nope.
Unless it’s an ice-cold salted caramel cold foam cold brew in the afternoon.
I love hot coffee, and I love cold coffee. But if I find a cup of coffee that is room temperature because it’s been sitting out on the counter all day, then the thought of drinking it makes me want to vomit.
To my knowledge, Jesus wasn’t a coffee drinker. But Jesus uses this very image to describe the believers in Laodicea:
“I know your works, 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 am going to vomit you out of my mouth.”
(Revelation 3:15–16 CSB)
You are lukewarm, he says, characterized by neither the warm passion that fuels sacrifice nor the awakening refreshment of a cold shower. There is nothing distinctive about you. You feel just like the environment around you. You claim to flow from me, but you feel and look more like your environment than me.
And here’s why that should bother you: We are Laodicea...
(Excerpt) Read more at jdgreear.com ...
People without personality, these low info drones of the mainstream... Jesus did not like the Collective lemmings and thus was no socialist contrary to mythomaniacal leftist stories
Could be a name for a stupid noise rock band....Divine Vomit.
Iced Coffee makes me want to vomit.
We are in Revelation 2 and 3 now.
The main enemy: those who call themseves jews but are a synagouge of satan(a very small amount.
People who put words in his mouth.
The damned idiot. Head of SBC? You don’t talk about Jesus that way
Yeah I finally read the background story to that statement.
Until a few years ago, I thought Jesus meant be very good or very evil. Never made sense.
I bet 95 percent of folks still think what I thought.
Lukewarmness. Everyone knows that. Right?
“ But if I find a cup of coffee that is room temperature because it’s been sitting out on the counter all day, then the thought of drinking it makes me want to vomit.”
Coffee waster!!
Mormons
Says the mega church pastor who doesn’t know the original languages
Spit is the better translation
hot as in the ardor of charity. cold as in the fear of GOD.
Pastor J. D. Greear looks like one of the Property Brothers.
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