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“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you were cold or hot.

 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.”

 (Revelation 3:15~16)

 Today a large part of those who compose our congregations are dead in trespasses and sins.

They come and go like the door upon its hinges.

For years they have complacently listened to the most solemn, soul-stirring truths, but they have not put them in practice.

Therefore they are less and less sensible of the preciousness of truth.

The stirring testimonies of reproof and warning do not arouse them to repentance.

The sweetest melodies that come from God through human lips—justification by faith, and the righteousness of Christ—do not call forth from them a response of love and gratitude.

Though the heavenly Merchantman displays before them the richest jewels of faith and love, though He invites them to buy of Him “gold tried in the fire,” and “white raiment” that they may be clothed, and “eyesalve”(Revelation 3:18) that they may see, they steel their hearts against Him, and fail to exchange their lukewarmness for love and zeal.

While making a profession, they deny the power of godliness.

If they continue in this state, God will reject them.

They are unfitting themselves to be members of His family.

 (Testimonies for the Church Volume 6 426)

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