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NASB | Revelation 3:16 'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 3:16 'So because you are lukewarm (spiritually useless), and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of My mouth [rejecting you with disgust]. |
Subject: Rev, Jesus states spew out of His mouth |
Bible Note: Hi Jeff and thanks, your compliment meant a lot to me. Sorry for this late post, but I stumbled across this site with commentary from John F. Walvoord (entered eternal grace in 2002), a long-time president of Dallas Theological Seminary. Here is a portion: It is apparent that there is something about the intermediate state of being lukewarm that is utterly obnoxious to God. Far more hopeful is the state of one who has been untouched by the gospel and makes no pretense of putting his trust in Christ than the one who makes some profession but by his life illustrates that he has not really honored the Christ whose gospel he has heard and professed. There is no one farther from the truth in Christ than die one who makes an idle profession without real faith. The church at Laodicea constitutes a sad picture of much of the professing church in the world throughout the history of the Christian era and serves as an illustration of those who participate in the outer religious worship without the inner reality. How many have outwardly conformed to requirements of the church without a true state of being born again into the family of God? How many church members are far from God yet by their membership in the professing church have satisfied their own hearts and have been lulled into a sense of false security? The above can be found here: http://www.walvoord.com/page.php?page_id(EQUAL SIGN)261 Joyful Blessings, John |