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Am i a lukewarm Christian ?
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Need evidence to confirm.
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The fact that you are asking the question suggests you are keen to reflect on yourself and your standing with God. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you in this- ?
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What’s the temperature where you are?
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Even though i know you personally, i couldnt tell. Its in your heart. Only God sees the heart of each and everyone of us.
Plus, who am i to judge?So ask God. Pray for it bro
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We can all be lukewarm at times, draw near to God, pray and meditate on His word and rekindle that flame
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How would we know?
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If u have to ask…yep!
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Have you turned from your sin?
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I’m Constantly amazed at the misunderstanding of this passage.
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Idk. Out of my many desirable and undesirable characteristics, telepathy isn’t one of them.
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Pray for guidance. He will give you clarity.
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Asking the question leans towards a NO answer…true lukewarms are content
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Check your fruits under the light of the Scriptures.
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You can only answer that question if you line up your life with what the word of God says.
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No one here can answer that. Only you can answer that Q. If you feel you are, then it’s probably the HS working in you. Don’t ignore it.
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Get warmed up
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Also remember what the Lord said about being lukewarm, He actually would rather us be hot or cold- pretty strong statement!
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Does your life look like what this passage describes?
2 Peter 1:2–11 (LEB): May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 because his divine power has bestowed on us all things that are necessary for life and godliness, through the knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence of character, 4 through which things he has bestowed on us his precious and very great promises, so that through these you may become sharers of the divine nature after* escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire, 5 and for this same reason, and by* applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence of character, and with excellence of character, knowledge, 6 and with knowledge, self-control, and with self-control, patient endurance, and with patient endurance, godliness, 7 and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.
8 For if* these things are yours and are increasing, this does not make you useless or unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For the one for whom these things are not present is blind, being nearsighted, ⌊having forgotten the cleansing⌋ of his former sins. 10 Therefore, brothers, be zealous even more to make your calling and election secure, because if you* do these things, you will never ever stumble. 11 For in this way entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied for you
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If you have to ask, then “Yes”. Since you neither know, and don’t know.
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Are you afraid of unintentionally offending people?
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It depends!! What caused this concern?
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Sorry about some of the comments on here that I am seeing. I apologize on their behalf.
This is a great question to ask. You can start by reading2 Corinthians 13:5 – Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test?
Isaiah 29:13 – The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.”
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Only you can answer this question. If it is rhetorical, why would you ask such a thing? We all have Bibles which contain the commands of Christ; look there.
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As long as we follow the founders of our church leaders in our Christianity we lukewarm , mixed truth and error. The Endtime Christian Church is lukewarm, but individual christian who follow Christ through biblical Apostles and Prophets. Jesus Christ is come from spiritual Babylon and follow him.
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If you are and you are asking this question, I think it would be safe to say God is dealing with your heart and that means that you are his. Whether or not you choose to correct the situation is in your own hands. If you are doubting your own salvation, the doubt no longer, there is always room for improvement, I learn more and more everyday and the more I learn, the more I realize, that I am just a fish in this pond and that I may not be the brightest star in the sky, but I still twinkle and give just enough light to help, no matter how little I may be.
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Be happy and thankful for your questioning. I would suggest study the context as Michael Herbert explained above. My bible study teacher did a lesson on this exact passage a while back and Michael’s explanation is dead on.
I would tell you to be cautious yet fruitful in your analysis of your faith. I have watched a person questioning lukewarmness allow themselves to convince themselves that they couldn’t do it. Remember God expects growth not perfection. It is healthy to look and analyze our walks with Him and look for areas of improvement, but remember that the enemy will use doubt as one of his strongest weapons. I watched this person go from doubt over their walk to doubt about their salvation and he almost walked away. (Praise the Lord for heavy intervention and giving both me and others around him the knowledge and strength to love on and redirect some bad teaching regarding salvation and now his faith is stronger than ever.)
I will add this which will echo the words I told this dear person in my life… it’s good to see where you may be coming short in your walk. The conviction you feel comes from the Holy Spirit. If you didn’t feel convicted over sin in your life or shortcomings in your walk, I would question true salvation. Those things don’t negate your salvation. We must remember that salvation through Christ Jesus is not achieved through what we do… it’s through Him and Him alone. Walk through those feelings, study the word, and allow them to refine you. Then use this time where you’ve questioned being “lukewarm” and what you learn during it to help someone else when they are in the same situation. I believe many of the trials we face are to teach us how to help someone else in the same predicament after we have gone through the trial.
God bless you and may you never stop looking to refine your walk with Christ. ❤️
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Only you and God can answer that
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Jesus was speaking to a church
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If you don’t spend time in reading the Bible and obey what it says there. And the motive of your heart is against the will of God.. you can say that you are being lukewarm.
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Ask people who know you best. How are we supposed to know?
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What is your body Temp?
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You would know if you are on fire for God or not
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No such thing.
Either you are a Christian saved by the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ alone or you are a false convert. -
the love of many will wax cold
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That’s between you and God.
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LOL i make a post that says am i a lukewarm Christian i get 76 comments ! i follow it up with a post telling people it was a post for them to self inspect themselves ! 2 comments Well i guess being subtle dont work .
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Need more information And that’s between you and God.
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I find perseverance in my faith to be something that I have often forgotten to be vigilant, returning to a habit of doing things “myself.” Always a mistake. “Let go and let God ” from AA is good advice.
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