When we were last together in this text, I had asked the question, “How can we overcome lukewarmness in the Christian life?” Lukewarmness exists in a Christian's life when they allow themselves to become lax about everything that they know, and everything that they have been given, spiritually by their Lord Jesus Christ; the One who died for them. They do not let their knowledge motivate them to the activities of prayer and worship and evangelism; instead they rest in the knowledge of their own self-assessment; that they have believed in Christ, and therefore the assume that they are living the Christian life. They are not cold. That is what an unbeliever is toward Christ and the gospel and things of God. But they are not hot either. How can this change? This is the very condition which our Lord Jesus Christ reproves. This afternoon I want to speak to you about the things that are important to Christ; things which I hope and trust will become important to you when you hear of them. Christ in this passage is speaking to everyone who has come to realize their lukewarmness, to everyone who would receive the reward of sitting down with Christ on His throne, when He uses this phrase: “To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne.” And so, let us ask ourselves 3 questions in relation to these verses that we are studying. 1st – What is it to be an overcomer? 2nd – How are we to become overcomers? And 3rd – What will it mean to sit down with Christ on His throne?
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
