{"id":676,"date":"2009-10-30T10:55:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T10:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:58","slug":"the-state-of-being-lukewarm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"The State Of Being Lukewarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse today from Revelation 3:17 and the church at Laodicea. One of the marks of a lukewarm Christian is that he is independent rather than dependent. There is a great trust in what they possess of self and not a dependency of what Christ provides in Himself. Jesus says, &#8216;you say with your life that you are <em>rich, increased with goods, and have need of nothing<\/em>&#8216;. Is this not the state of most churches in America? Jesus says, &#8216;you are not aware of the fact that you are <em>wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked<\/em>.&#8217; We think we have it all and in our Lord&#8217;s eyes we have nothing and are in desperate need of everything. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Revelation 3:17 and the church at Laodicea. One of the marks of a lukewarm Christian is that he is independent rather than dependent. There is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6334,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/6334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}