Complacency or Lukewarmness

You know, Satan has found a new way, as we sit here today. We've come in freedom, we're clothed, we're blessed, we're comfortable and we came and we'll leave in comfortable cars and we'll go home to comfortable homes. Now there's nothing wrong with that. All that we have the Lord has blessed us with. But let's keep one thing in mind: those very things can be so much the tools of Satan.

Because those very things back in the old days when the physical body was persecuted and tortured, and, even as we read in these Scriptures here ... how the church flourished and thrived, even when they were put in prisons and the Lord let them out again, and they were beheaded and it didn't matter much what happened to them, the faith continued and it marched on.

Now we find today, much to the burden of our heart, the faith that struggles, the faith that fumbles and tries to hold, Satan gnaws at its ranks. Because Satan thought, "Well, through persecution, all they did was gain the more. They are well blessed; now we'll see if they can stand the blessings and the bounty that are upon them."

It's our human nature to become complacent. That is one thing no faith can stand, beloved, is complacency ... lukewarmness. And why not? Because the Lord says, "I will spue thee out of my mouth." (Rev. 3:16)

It's so simple. Let's keep it that way.
--Sermon Excerpt: Bro. W.G.