The Spirit of the Lord has alerted his people to the idea that He desires them to be hot or cold. The warmed up left-overs is a condition of the heart. To be warm rather than hot nauseates the Spirit of the Lord! To want to spew out means there is a desire to vomit because of how He views a luke-warm condition in the believer. A lukewarm condition toward the Lord Jesus is like a romance between a man and a woman when one of them will not move on from the warm condition to the hot condition. That frustrates the ones love that is fully given to the other. Alas it is nauseating because the hot one does not want to discard the warm one so he or she settles for keeping the food down rather than throwing up and ridding oneself of the frustration. Hot is about an unequivocal love relationship with the Lord Jesus! Cold, is about bitterness or indifference.

Why are so few hot? Many are called but fewer are chosen. There are many women but we men choose one. Why? Why do fewer continue to seek His face without any ulterior reason, just to know Him? Billy Graham has said that only ten percent of those who come to Christ in his crusades end up going on with Christ. Heres a huge part of the reason; it seems most do not fall in Love with Christ Jesus! Why? One must give oneself at deep levels to fall in Love! There must be a compatibility. Much seeking, pursuing, and romancing and a whole lot of pouring oneself out into Him is needed!

Nearly every individual believer will say; we ought to regroup and begin pursuing and seeking. Most believers settle for good feelings and a righteous performance in some way, thinking this will create the glorious church that is spoken of to the Ephesians. These type things have nothing to do with what heading is over the church building.

A believer and lawyer at the time named Charles Finney in up state New York in the late 1820s began to seeking and pursuing the Lord in an intense way. Each day as he rode into town for his work day he would stop at a certain place and there in the woodlands he would seek the face of the Lord with no ulterior reason in mind, just to know Him. That is romancing Christ Jesus! This is much the same way a man seeks to know his bride for example. In approximately one year of constant seeking to intimately know the Lord Jesus, the Lord Jesus came to him! Charles was so overwhelmed and so utter filled with Christ that there was no stopping him. This man was utterly filled. He left his work and began preaching the empowered Christ in the upstate portions of New York. He walked in such power and glory that upon arriving in a new town to preach the glorious gospel, people would fall on their knees in the workplace in repentance, unaware of what was occurring. Christ actually went before him! He will go before us if we romance Him sufficient! In a certain town in New York each and every place of ill repute closed for all had come to Christ in Rome, New York!

The Sheriff in an adjacent county made the remark that he would stop this thing because it was working to limit taxes in the saloons etc. On the way to wreak havoc with Jesus the Sheriff got to the bridge over a stream that divided these areas, he fell from his horse on the bridge and was utter helpless to continue on. Jesus would have us hot, rather than luke-warm much as a lover likes ones spouse hot rather than lukewarm!

You are very right there. It is soo sad that I was lukewarm and cold for over 40 years.
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Doug - is this your original writing? I enjoyed it very much.

What does original writing mean? Anyway I'm glad you enjoyed. I hope we are edified at levels that do us right good.

It was very well thought out and presented - and I wondered whether you had written it yourself (original writing) or had found it somewhere and wished to share it. I like knowing the author! Not that we really 'know' each other in an online forum - but I like to know whose writing I'm reading - whom God is speaking to and through.

I did write it but I thought I did not word it that well, I was aware that the substance was good. Thank you.