13/10/2026
Did Jesus Christ think salvation of such importance that he must needs come from heaven to earth to work it out? Did he think the gospel, which he preached, so worthy to be made known that he must needs spend his life in proclaiming it?
Did he think the redemption, which he wrought out, so invaluable that he must needs shed his own precious blood in order to complete it?
Then, surely, HE was in earnest; so, if I profess to believe the truths that he taught, and yet am indifferent, do I not insult Christ by seeming to insinuate that there was no need for him to be in such dead earnest?
His intense zeal was not on his own account, but on behalf of others; and, according to all reason, those who are the interested parties, for whom Christ’s solemn engagements were undertaken, should be even more earnest than he himself was, if that could be possible.
Yet, instead of that being the case, here is Christ in earnest, and we — too many of us — are lukewarm, ‘neither cold nor hot.’”
— Charles H. Spurgeon, Lukewarmness (sermon on Revelation 3:14–21).
