Lukewarmness defined:
“Modern Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone.” A. W. Tozer
John Fawcett: “A sermon that is not enlivened with the honeyed name of Jesus, in which there is nothing of His atonement for sin, of His matchless love and saving power is heard with coolness and indifference, while the doctrine of the cross is life from the dead!”
Only one person can make such a bold statement to God as this - “I have glorified You upon the earth, having completed/finished/accomplished the work which You gave to Me so that I may do it” (John 17:4 my translation).
“I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to it” (C. H. Spurgeon).
“Christ has honored our nature by assuming it, the law by fulfilling it, and divine justice by satisfying all its demands; and he now invites every one that will, to come and to partake of the blessings of his salvation” (John Fawcett).
To venture upon the occasion of sin, and then to pray, ‘Lead us not into temptation,’ is all one as to thrust thy finger into the fire, and then to pray that it might not be burnt.
—Thomas Brooks