Tabernacle Baptist Church

Have you ever picked up a cup filled with coffee expecting it to be hot, only to find it cold or lukewarm? What did you do or what were you tempted to do? Probably spit it out.

Have you ever picked up a Coke or a Dr. Pepper, expecting it to be ice cold and bubbly, only to find it hot or lukewarm and flat? What did you do or what were you tempted to do? Probably spit it out.

Why? Because lukewarm coffee and lukewarm coke are not ideal. THAT’S what Jesus is communicating to this church in Laodicea and to Tabernacle Family this morning.

So if you sense you are lukewarm, be eager to repent, realize the riches that are yours in Christ Jesus, ask God to open your eyes to your spiritual condition, clothe yourself with righteous living, and open the door to deep and rich fellowship by meeting Jesus where He is: in the Word and in Prayer.

God’s work is an unlikely work, and He chose unlikely people from unlikely places to accomplish His unlikely mission to save a lost and dying world. 

The Samaritan woman did not have the Great Commission, but she had met a great Savior and she was compelled to bring people to meet her new Master.

You may feel like you are too unlikely of a person for God to use. God changed the world through eleven sinners from a little slave province in the Roman Empire. He used this no-name woman. He can certainly use you too.

If you are so bothered by the direction of this country that you are debilitated, depressed, and discouraged, then it may be that you are putting too much stock into THIS world instead of the next. Remember, this world is NOT our home. And our life is but a “vapor” and a DOT compared to eternity.

We have a responsibility to our city and our state and our nation to be responsible citizens. But this is not our destiny!

So, are we in for the long haul? Thus, enter the open door of salvation and service, and also, endure to the end by obeying the Word and claiming the name of Jesus unashamedly.

When David faced the giant Goliath, this was an impossible problem for him to resolve by himself. 

But David knew something about God. God is not someone that will save you using conventional weapons.  When God decides to deliver you from some situation, very often He will not do it the way you think. God is always going to do in a way where He will get the glory, and that is why so many people get trapped in impossible situations. 

God is bigger than that, so let Him work through you using not conventional weapons. Be open to what God wants to do to you and through you so you can experience deliverance from Him.

In this parable, there are two sons: the younger and the older. The younger son was the Rebellious son, and the older son was the Religious son. Which son are you?

The truth is both sons were lost – yes, one left and one stayed at home. The younger was unrighteous and the older was self-righteous. Neither were right with God! 

Both sons were in need of God’s grace, just like me and you. This grace can only come from the Son telling the story, the Redeeming Son – Jesus Christ!

Are you a part of the walking dead that has confessed Christ as Lord and know beyond a shadow of a doubt that if you were to die in this instance you would spend eternity with God; yet you are simply going through the motions in a “zombie-like” state, not really “alive” in Christ?

Don’t you long to “strengthen whatever it is that remains?”

Are you ready for a reality check in your life?

Repent from your apathy and slumber. Wake up to this life in Christ that’s available to you!

Have you been seduced by Jezebel?

Have you been sucked into a pseudo-Christian sub-culture that tells you to confine your religion to your personal life; keep your religion to yourself?

Have you been compromising the truths of God and the practices of Christ-followers to keep from being rejected, ridiculed, or persecuted?

Are you being seduced into tolerating sin and error and heresy?

The storm of tolerance toward immorality and idolatry is gathering quickly, as well as the storm of intolerance of the world toward those who believe in absolute truth. 

How secure and stable are you as the storm approaches?

We all have guilt that haunts us of our failure, so, what do we do with it?

In John 21 we are going to find Jesus’s love is greater than our failure. 

The only way to lay the persistent ghosts of your sin on our conscience to rest is knowing the same love that saved you through Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection has paid for every sin of our past, present, and future. 

Walk in freedom today. Stop practicing sin and living as a slave to that sin. That sin you once walked in does not still rule over you. Don’t let it haunt you.

What would you do if faith was illegal?

Daniel was going into a circumstance like that, and just like him, we are called to live for God even when circumstances are not in our favor.

How can you experience resurrection today?

In the book of Acts, shortly after the Apostles Peter and John were used by God to heal a man who was lame from birth, Peter told the crowd that they were guilty of crucifying Jesus, the One who had come to bring.

“Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away. Then times of refreshment will come from the presence of the Lord, and he will again send you Jesus, your appointed Messiah.” (Acts 3:19-20).

So, RISE UP!!! And EXPERIENCE RESURRECTION TODAY!