The Lukewarm Christian - Tim Conway

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. Revelation 3:20
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2011 Fellowship Conference Session #6

[@PooleSilly]

I am grateful to say that I am a born again Christian and have been since I was 19.......yes indeed i enjoy listening to this dear man of God Pastor Tim Conway and I much pray God's peace and comfort on him and his family each and everyday and that God uses him and his ministry mightily to much glorify and lift high the king of kings and the lord of lords!!!!!! to God Be All The Glory!!!!! Great Things He Hath Done!!!!!! and all hail king Jesus!!!!! the king of kings and the lord of lords!!!!!! however folks these days are getting darker and Christ is coming soon and if you don’t know Christ as your savior then it burdens my soul to think that you are headed for a terrible place called Hell where the Bible says the fire is never quenched and the worm dies not! Folks you are not promised tomorrow! If you want to know how to be saved from this horrible reality then please by all means don’t hesitate to comment right back so I can lead you to the savior! 2 Corinthians 6:2 clearly states “now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation!” And Hebrews 3:15 clearly states, “Today if you hear his voice don’t harden your hearts! it is not me but the Holy Spirit that I pray reveals to you the truth of his precious gospel......John 3:16 says for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes on him will not perish but have everlasting life! V 17 says then V 18 says whoever believes on the son is not condemned but whoever does not believe on the son is condemned already because he has not believed on the son whom God has sent! Also Acts 16:30-31 what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house I am not threatening anyone but just warning them what will happen if they reject this precious gift of eternal life! Christ died a horrible criminals death! He was beaten brutally mocked spit upon and endured countless hours of torture pain for all of our sins! Ppl go to hell because they reject that pardon for their sins! And Jesus is saying to them in Matthew 25:41 depart from me you cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels! Hell was only prepared for Satan and his angels! It is not God who threatens anyone it is the craziness of rejecting the free pardon of salvation! It’s like if you’re in court you’ve committed a crime say you murdered someone! Now if you say to that Judge hey I know I’ve done a terrible thing of murdering that person but I hear you’re a good judge and so I know you’ll be fair to me...... the judge is going to reply well yes you’re right about one thing I am a good judge and because I’m a good judge I’m going to see to it that you’re punished and that justice is served! Well then all of a sudden someone you don’t even know comes forward and says you know what I know he’s committed the crime he’s committed and he deserves to go to jail but I really don’t want to see him go to prison so I’ll just go to prison for him so he can go free! So if you accepted that offer you’d be free to leave the courtroom but if you didn’t well you’d be crazy and go to prison yourself! Well that’s exactly how it was 2,000 years ago! He is God in human flesh and he came to this earth lived a perfect sinless life and even though he knew that we had sinned and because of our sins deserved to die miserably but he said no I don’t want to see them suffer so I will go and take their punishment for them! Even though he did absolutely nothing wrong still he chose to take the punishment for our sins so we can be set free from the power bondages and consequences of our disobedience to God! Romans 5:8 says For God commends his love toward us that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us! 1 John 2:2 says he was made to be the propitiation for our sins! And not just for our sins but the sins of the whole world! 2 Corinthians 5:21 He who knew no sin became Sin for us that we would be made his righteousness! The truth is if you had to get to Heaven by your own effort then you cannot do it! Because Romans 3:10 says there is not one that does good! No Not One! Romans 3:23 says For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God! Romans 6:23 says For the wages of sin is death! But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our lord! But the good news is Romans 10:9 If we confess with our mouth and believes in our hearts that Christ died for our sins then was raised from the dead we will be saved! V 10 For it’s with the heart we believe and it’s with the mouth confession is made unto salvation! God gave us 10 commandments to follow and we’ve broken every one of them! And because God is a good God he cannot allow our disobedience to him to go unpunished! Well then like I just mentioned above his son Jesus stepped forward and said no I don’t want to see them punished so I will take their punishment for them! And also like I said he died a terrible substitute criminal’s death for us on a cross so now all we have to do is accept that payment for our sins and we can escape the terrible wrath of God that is to fall on them who do not accept this atonement that was sacrificed for our sins! Praise the lord Romans 10:13 says Whoever calls on the name of the lord shall be saved! And 1 Peter 1:4 you’re an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you! Christ clearly said in John 14:6 I am the way the truth and the life and no one comes to the father but through me! Acts 4:12 clearly states that there is no other name given unto Heaven or earth by which we must be saved as there is salvation in no other! Jesus clearly states that there is clearly only one way to Salvation and it’s him that’s it! There is no other way! God Bless everyone who reads!

[@anacavalcante9000]

This message helped me so much, even after 12 years, i'd like to thank your ministry, God bless ❤

[@richardsoderkvist6383]

Thankyou for this message. Its the truth of Gods word Amen.

[@warrenrobert5009]

Relevant even today

[@OscarAndres_214]

thank you so much for this video

[@Jesusmyallandall]

Thank you so much...this is very helpful

[@miarymr8337]

How does this verse in Revelation 3:20 relate to the ones where there seems to be a point of no return (like Hebrews 6:4-6 and Hebrews 10:26 and the Hebrews' warnings in general)?

[@illbehonest]

They are similar in that both are to professing believers. In Hebrews 10:26 it says if we go on, "sinning deliberately after" receiving certain truth--so they had just heard truth. So it is with the churches in Revelation, they are hearing truth from Christ, but will they respond to Christ's word to them? Or will they ignore it and willfully go on in rebellion? The great danger is that after the Spirit convicts one of their sin, they ignore such conviction and willfully go on in sin.

[@miarymr8337]

@@illbehonest If people still go on in rebellion, but then they realize they're wrong, and they repent, only God knows if they haven't crossed the point of no return, right? because I've heard testimonies of people like that, and after wholeheartedly repenting, God restored them.

[@nantyfields3226]

12 years of this message and still relevant to our souls. This is indeed the living God of Word.

[@charleneriddle5995]

There is no such thing as a lukewarm Christian. There is no in-between, one is either saved or one is lost. A lukewarm person is someone who has never received “Of His Fulness”, he is a lost soul who thinks that he is saved. The church Jesus spoke this to, they were lost and Jesus made this clear, they thought they knew God but they did not know him. A truly saved person cannot lose his Salvation because God does not let that person go, He changes them slowly. It’s called sanctification. If you are lukewarm, you are lost and you have never been saved. Tim Conway is a good preacher, he is one of the best, but I believe he is wrong about this. He is still one of the best preachers and I listen to him a lot and will keep listening to him; but a lukewarm person was never a Christian. Clearly lukewarm means a person who thinks he is saved and looks saved on the outside, but like the five foolish virgins, he is a lost soul, not a backsliding Christian.

[@illbehonest]

When you say there is no, "in-between", that seems to dismiss the reality of a true believer having a dry season where zeal is lacking. If so, why does he say earlier in Revelation 3 Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die... -- Strengthen what remains implies an in-between. So does Hebrews 12:12 - Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,... -- They have "weak knees". It is not that they are paralyzed and have no ability to walk, or that they are walking fast...they are in-between, weak knees. He says what is lame needs to be healed. There is that reality in the believer's life and the Bible teaches such.