This podcast episode challenges the concept of "lukewarm Christianity," arguing that it's a dangerous and normalized state of spiritual mediocrity that God rejects, and that true faith requires complete devotion to God rather than a divided commitment between God and the world.
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all right what's going on guys welcome
back to another episode of the Bryce
Crawford podcast I'm Bryce and today I'm
so excited for this episode I've been so
hyped when we came up with the idea and
I was inspired by Francis Chan's sermon
lukewarm and loving it that's the title
of this episode how to stop living on
the fence I'm so excited because I lived
as a lukewarm Christian for so long and
I want to offend your brain today to get
to your heart and I want God to use this
podcast episode to do some fing on your
heart and just reflect you know it God
knows our heart better than any man like
we know ourselves really well but God
knows our heart better than we know our
own heart so I I pray that this episode
is going to be a thing where you go God
really search my heart like show me
things that I need to root out because
this episode I'm so excited for and I
just hate lukewarm Christianity because
it's become so normalized and we need to
talk about it and we're just going to
talk about it how I just don't think
lukewarm Christianity is even a real
thing um that's just just hot take just
being real just being real now the
definition of lukewarm means to be
neither cold nor hot so it's kind of
like that mediocre State I remember when
I um was living with my grandma for a
little bit or when I go over there for
sleepovers she'd make sure to make that
bath water nice and lukewarm wasn't too
hot wasn't too cold it was like just
right it was just right and we need we
need to keep that in mind because a lot
of people's faith is lukewarm a lot of
people are living lukewarm and that
where I grew up in the South about 98%
of people were lukewarm it was very rare
for me to meet someone who was on fire
for Jesus and if they were on fire for
Jesus they were weird you know which is
really dangerous that lukewarm
Christianity is normalized now there's
going to be a few passages we highlight
but mainly this passage in Revelation
three about to blow y'all out of y'all
seats uh y'all better buckle up I hope
y'all are sitting somewhere where y'all
can like just chill out cuz it's about
to get Buck Wild on this podcast episode
we got Revelation 3 sorry Revelation
3:15-16 says I know your Works you're
neither cold nor hot with that you were
either cold nor hot so because you are
lukewarm and neither hot nor cold I'll
spit you out of my
mouth God vomits lukewarmness out of his
mouth the reason that people are
lukewarm is because they're not finding
100% of their satisfaction in Jesus so
they're going to be dipping a little bit
of their Towing in the water like oh I I
just want benefits of the Kingdom
without the king oh I just want the
gifts instead of The Giver
himself and so with lukewarmness we're
sitting on this gray area of the fence
like calling lukewarm Christianity
lukewarm or having this section of
lukewarm Christianity means that culture
has created a gray area that doesn't
exist we either love God or we don't we
just got to get get over that you either
love God or you don't there's this gray
area that really doesn't exist and I
love Mark 12 when Jesus says the
greatest commandment is to love the Lord
your God with all of your heart all of
your soul all of your mind and all of
your strength Jesus doesn't go yeah just
give me 70% of your heart and the other
30% you can give to the world he doesn't
say that he says I want all of you you
got to love me with all of you and he's
that whole passage is the Pharisees
trying to test him being like what's the
greatest commandment you had to follow
613 laws to be righteous and Jesus sums
up all of righteousness in that passage
to love the Lord your God with all of
your heart all of your soul all of your
mind with all your strength that's the
greatest commandment and so right off
the bat if you're withholding any
percentage of yourself from Jesus then
you're disobeying the one commandment
Jesus says is the most important to
follow and so we have to reflect on our
heart and saying God what am I not given
to you what has stopping me from giving
all of me to you and we have to be very
cautious and reflect on our life there's
this analogy of a man he says he had a
dream and in his dream he was in an open
grass field and the grass field was
split by a fence and on one side of the
fence was Satan and on the other side of
the fence was God and Satan looks at him
he says which one do you want you want
God or you want me he's like if you come
over here I'll give you all you want
I'll give you everything you want but if
you go with God you don't get everything
I'm offering you and so this guy's
contemplating he's like oh man Jesus
like you're there you're so good but man
Satan I there's some things that I
really enjoyed
so he laughs at both of them and he sits
on the fence he says I don't have to
choose either of you I can I can be on
both sides of you at the same time and
as he's laughing and scoffing at Satan
and God it goes black and out of the
darkness comes Satan and the man goes no
no no no no no Satan like I didn't
choose you I sat on the fence so I got a
little bit of Jesus and I got a little
bit of you and Satan grabs him by the
arm and grips him really hard and says
the fence belongs to
me really powerful the think about that
there's no real gray area at the end of
the day when Judgment Day comes Jesus
says he'll spit us out of his
mouth so the a question I get asked a
lot and we've been asked a lot is if I'm
lukewarm does it mean I'm going to hell
like if God vomits me out of his mouth
does it mean I can still be saved really
do those words look like the words in
the description of a Believer look at
verse 17 after that for you say I'm rich
I have prospered and I need nothing not
realizing that you're wretched pitiable
poor blind and naked that's how he
describes the
lukewarm so you were like I was once
blind but now I'm blind that's not how
it works you can't be lukewarm for Jesus
you're Allin like I love God with all my
heart or you don't love him and there's
even a Bible verse in first or second
John where it talks about if anyone
remotely lives in any bit of Darkness
then he can't fellowship with the
light so you mean to tell me Bryce that
I can't have a little bit of the world
and a little bit of Jesus it doesn't
really work like that because when
you're living lukewarm and on the fence
you don't get the fullness of
Jesus you don't and you're like ah man
Jesus just isn't doing it for me but
when you're Liv in lukewarm you don't
know what it feels like to actually have
Jesus in your life because you're not
getting the fullness of him so we have
to be willing to get the fullness of
him and the crazy thing about being
lukewarm is that if you get it you won't
be lukewarm if you understand the gospel
you won't be lukewarm and this isn't
like a thing where you have to work for
salvation you have to work for God's
love that's not what this is but if you
just get it you won't be lukewarm so you
actually don't have to work to be
lukewarm you just have to
surrender but you have to be willing to
surrender because a lot of you guys want
to grip onto some stuff you're like I'll
surrender a little bit of this and that
but I don't want to get that and I feel
like a lot of you listening to this if I
asked you if you were lukewarm or not
you would admit that you were lukewarm
and I'm not trying to judge you but like
are you on fire for God right now or are you
you
lukewarm and what concerns me more than
the fact that you would say that you're
lukewarm is that you would listen to
this video or listen to this podcast and
you would cut it off and you would go
about your day and not do anything about
it and my greatest concern on top of
that is that you would say I'm lukewarm
I know that I'm
lukewarm but that you want to be
lukewarm because you've planned your
life about being around being lukewarm
you don't want anything else but to be
lukewarm you plann your whole life out
of it you say I want a little bit of God
because it's good for my kids it's good
for my family a little bit of God is
good for the occasional bad day but I I
don't have enough money I need a bigger
house I need a little bit of more this
and we talked about this in the very
first episode Mark 4 the seed planted
amongst the Thorns was choked out by the
thorns and that's faith that is planted
it sprouts but the deceitfulness of the
world and the riches of the world choke it
it
out and the distractions of the world
world will choke out your faith and
cause you to be
lukewarm what are you going to do about
it this lukewarm faith is dangerous you
can't have fellowship with both God and
the world A house divided by itself can't
can't
stand so which one you going to live for
and we know that if the foundation of
our life is the rock whom we call
Jesus then we will experience the
fullness of him and it's kind of hard I
want I I don't want to you to feel shame
when I say this because it can be hard
when you've put your trust in so many
things and they've all let you down and
so Jesus is your last resort you're like
God I don't even know if I can put all
my trust in you everything's let me down
but the reality of the matter is even
though all those things have let you
down it's the only thing you know so you
keep going back to it so hypothetically
you don't even know what Jesus has to
offer for you so I want to say step out
in faith take that risk because it's in
God's character to show up in your life
and he can't go outside of his character
and make and and fail you God's not
going to fail you it's impossible in his
character to fail you and so a lot of
this lukewarm
state is both people that want to be
lukewarm that want the benefits of the
world and a little bit of the benefits
of the Kingdom but there's also going to
be this lukewarm state of like I don't
know if Jesus is who he says he is so I
just kind of want to test him out to
make sure he is who he says he is but
you can't experience the fullness of
Jesus unless you give your give your all to
to
him you know like I I remember when I
was younger when we would go to the pool
to figure out if the pool was cold or
not I would dip my toe in there and I
got so tired of Dipping my toe in there
because I it would scare me sometimes it
would scare me when I dipped in and felt
how cold it was I wouldn't want to jump
in the pool I'd be too scared to go in
so then finally one day I just put this
switch on my mind that I was going to
get over and I was just going to do a
cannonball every time first thing going
in the pool not even feeling how cold it
was and at first when you jump in you
get in there it kind of shocks you you
know you jump in and the and the the
degree of the water it shocks you for a
second but after that quick moment of
shock I was there and I was ready and I
was eager to be in the pool and I loved
playing in the pool and so when you jump
all in with Jesus there might be a
little bit of a culture shock because
it's shifting your mind it's changing
the way that seemed right to you so yeah
there is going to be a little bit of
that shock but once you Dive Right In
you don't want to leave the pool and I
remember getting in there my mom
screaming at me get out of the pool it's
time to go home and I didn't want to get
out of the pool once you dive all in
once you get all of Jesus and you
experience the fullness of him and you
realize that there's new mercies and new
Grace every day for you you're not going
to want to leave so I actually want to
pray for two things for you when we
close out this episode number one I want
to pray for
conviction that if you're feeling
conviction right now I pray that God
will convict you if you're living in a
lukewarm State and that you'll actually
act on it like I said earlier my biggest
concern is that you listen to this
podcast you Rec recognize you're
lukewarm you want to be lukewarm but you
cut it off and you don't do anything
about it but number two I want to pray
that God lays it on your heart to send
this to someone who's living in a
lukewarm State because if you really
love the people around you you'll call them
them
higher no matter what that takes because
love stands in the way of evil so Jesus
I thank you for this podcast episode I
thank you for this burden that you laid
on my heart God I just pray for
conviction to set in for anyone watching
or listening to this right now Jesus
will you give people the conviction to
get out of their lukewarm State God you
say I'd rather you be hot or cold I
don't want you to be lukewarm your word
says I'd rather you be hot or cold so
God will you make us hot will you make
people listening to this hot and on fire
for you God we love you and God will you
just lay people on the listeners Hearts
to send this episode to in Jesus name
amen guys thank you so much for
listening to this episode this episode
really means a lot to me because I lived
in so much lukewarm Christianity for so
long and I thought it was the way but
every day I would go home and I thought
I was saved and I really wasn't all in
and I would be miserable and you know I
want to encourage you guys for the
testimony after I went all in for Jesus
I got made fun of a lot after I got ma
after I went all in and after I
graduated high school a lot of people
that made fun of me actually call me to
this day and I actually got a call right
after I moved to LA listen when I moved
to LA I was 100% all in for Jesus but I
was broke I didn't have a lot of money
I didn't know where I was living I was
living in a five-bedroom house with eight
eight
people I was sharing bedrooms I was
doing this I was splitting
meals and I remember someone that used
to make fun of me called me crying to me
on the phone and they said Bryce I've
got a 4.0 GPA I'm in my dream school I
can hook up with anyone I
want but I'm miserable and they Lally go
Bryce you're broke you're a missionary
you live in LA you live in the most
expensive area in every but somehow
you're more joyful and more more happier
than I am what's the
secret at the end of the year at the end
of the day if you don't want to be
honest in public be honest with yourself
right now watching or listening to this
if you're if you're in a lukewarm State
you know that you're still suffering and
you're still miserable and I promise you
from the truth of the word of God that
God can fill this hole that you're
experiencing right now guys if you
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