So Jared recently challenged me to study out Revelation 3:14-16 and that is exactly what I’ve been doing all night long. It’s a passage I’ve heard preached a million times. In this passage Jesus says, “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”
I’ve always heard it said that this passage simply means that as believers it is impossible to be a “fence straddler”. You can’t be with the world and with God. God does NOT like it when we are lukewarm. He dislikes it so much that He’d rather us be cold than lukewarm, that is if we’re not going to be hot.
Another way of looking at this passage, too, is figurative. It turns out their were some well-known hot springs not far from Laodicea known for their great medicinal value. There also was some good underground cold water prized as great drinking water. Lukewarm water was of no value. Jesus is saying that the believers are not valuable at all because they are lukewarm, not hot or cold (both of which were valuable).
I’m not definite about this, but I found it interesting since I’d never heard it before.
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