Lukewarm ~ The Evil Behinds This Mixture

In the “crazymatic” environment, the intensity of faith in believers are judged base on their performances in serving the Lord. Those who are fervent in serving are classified as hot while those do not serve are classified as cold. Those who are not consistent in their serving are neither hot nor cold and they are being addressed as lukewarm Christian. This is “crazymatic” way of interpretation on the issue of hot and cold mentions in the Book of Revelation 3: 14-22 .

Who are these three criteria of people in the church to be classified as hot, lukewarm and cold under this performance mentality? The hot will be the new converts who are freshly touched by the love of God. The lukewarm are those who have been believers for awhile and backslidden a bit, while the cold are those so called old converts. So every believer under this religious environment has an equal opportunity to go through hot, lukewarm and cold stages; this includes the leaders… Based on the principle of "what son is not discipline by his father" in the Book of Hebrews, the cold and lukewarm believers are always facing the fiery darts from their leaders using scriptures which is usually "stones", to rebuke.

Men are living in a performance orientated world based on their informatics knowledge from this world. This informatics knowledge gives raise to multitude of legalists and religious people demanding fruits and neglecting the condition of their roots. God in His resting nature deals with the root. In His eye, the root is the system of our belief while the fruit is the result of our belief! Right believing produced right living.

The legalists and the religious people have missed what the Lord is trying to bring across in the Book of Revelation. They have been misled by the spirit of this world from seeing the truth and are bounded by the knowledge they depended on. Our Father's interpretation on this issue is never base on our performance. His interpretation of hot and cold is based on the system under grace in Jesus (new covenant) or law of the Ten Commandments (old covenant).

The Ten Commandments in its nature is cold. Grace in Jesus is hot. The law kills and the Spirit gives life. To be lukewarm means mixing grace with law… and it is the devil's job behind this mixture!

The Lord wished we are either completely under the law or completely under grace. If we are completely under the law, we will be convicted that we are unable to comply with the requirements of the law and turn ourselves away from the law and pursuit His grace. After all, the heavenly Father had been fully convinced that we, the mankind were unable to comply with the Law. That is why He sent His Beloved Son to die for us on the Cross and bring grace into our midst.

He hates mixture when we are neither under grace nor under law because when we mix His grace with law, we defeat the purposes of the law which was put in charge to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. On the other hand, we defeat the purpose of His grace which is to bring every blessings into our life! This mixture makes us neither here nor there and it makes every aspects of our life lukewarm!

The power of the gospel is disarmed in a believer's life when mixture is brought in... Can we see the conspiracy behind this mixture now?