Stewed and Spewed (Poem)

God’s Word vividly speaks of ‘vomit’ and ‘vomiting.¹

While not my favorite topic, it’s worth my commenting.

The most vivid and vile picture is of Jesus, Himself,

Vomiting out certain people from His church commonwealth.²

It’s amazing, people who believe re. the flood,

Think that God and Jesus are only about Love.

Rejecting the notion that Jesus Christ is God’s Judge,

From their ‘only Love’ notion, they will refuse to budge.

Some believe the church is a safe shelter

From hell’s eternal heat that will swelter.

And once they are in this ‘church safety zone’,

From Jesus, they will never hear a groan.

Thus they live, enjoying their lives, you know the drill,

With so little consciousness of The Father’s will.

Of Him and His will, they know just enough to feel only a little ‘heat’,

Refusing being ‘hot’, ‘cause before their culture, they wish to be ...discrete.

Remaining unwilling to become God’s cultural misfits,

They resist His work to make them into Kingdom retrofits.

Resisting all His work, their hearts and minds to re-sculpture,

They submit to being cultivated by their culture.

My rhyme describes no person or church, in particular,

But believers from all ages who were/are so secular.

So entrenched in their culture, as in it, they’ve been stewed,

Unaware that, from God’s mouth, lukewarmers can be spewed!

Peter warns us, at God’s own house, judgment begins.³

Ezekiel warns us about goats in sheepskins.⁴

Friend, with God,

There’s no benefit to a familiar association.

To Him, pretense is simply another abomination! ⁵

Looking into God’s pretense mirror, does your image become clear?

Please, Sir and Ma’am, do it now… and again; daily into it peer.

Also…

Check your spiritual temperature as you grow old,

For God’s thermometer only reads… hot or cold.

Spiritually Puked, Exclusively “Warmers”

(S.P.E.W.)

(Compare John 3:16 with Revelation 3:16)

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¹  Fourteen times!

²  Revelation 3:16

³  1 Peter 4:17

⁴  Ezekiel 9:6. Today, spiritual goats in spiritual sheepskins are people confessing saving faith in Christ, but whose lives belie their confession.

⁵ “And He (Christ) said to them, ‘You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God’”  (Spiritual lukewarmness is so very highly esteemed in our culture.)