Let me invite you to turn in your Bibles this morning to Revelation chapter 3. Revelation chapter 3 for our time of study and the word this morning. And We are continuing with our total devotion series and, I see on the screen it says from lukewarm to total devotion. I think on your notes, it says from lukewarmness.
To total devotion, whichever is close enough. We're gonna look at Revelation chapter 3 verses 14 through 22, and I'm struck by the irony of this message today in conjunction with Carlos's message last Sunday. Last week's sermon by Pastor Carlos was designed to accomplish one of the great purposes of the Bible, and that is to comfort the afflicted. Our passage today that we're going to be looking at is designed to accomplish one of the other great purposes of the Bible, and that is to afflict the comfortable.
Yet in our passage today, we're gonna observe Christ afflicting the comfortable in a way that is shocking, both in its severity. And in its tenderness. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, Solomon says in the book of Proverbs, and In this passage today, we're gonna see how Christ is faithful to deliver. Friendly wounds and yet how he is also gracious to minister to those wounds with tenderness and with love and with amazing hope.
In our passage today, we're going to see Jesus addressing and speaking against one of the great enemies of total devotion. which is lukewarmness. And we're gonna define lukewarmness in this way, and I probably should have put this in the notes cause you won't have time to write all of this out, but I think you can get the gist of it. Lukewarmness is a state of satisfied spiritual indifference, induced by a forgetfulness of the glory of Christ, of one's desperate need for Him, and of the ultimate good that can only be obtained through personal communion....
