Jesus wants His followers DECISIVE for truth and against evil. These last days in which we live, before He comes for His own, are known as Laodicean, fulfilling as they do the characteristics of the Church to which Jesus wrote in the last of His seven letters written to the churches and recorded in Revelation 2 and 3. He excoriated that Church as luke-warm. He said He so disliked their spiritually tepid state that He would vomit them out of His mouth if they remained neither hot nor cold. They were compromising, neither really for Christ but not against Him either, and therefore in violation of the greatest commandment that His followers love Him with all their heart, soul, strength and mind. Jesus once said, "But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’; anything beyond these is of evil." In other words we must be decidedly for Him and adamently against all that is sin. A love of self and the world mitigate against a hot and decisive love for Christ. Therefore, it is encumbant that we take up our cross, die to self and live holy lives in this sin filled world. Colossians 3:5 says "Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry." When we do the Holy Spirit fills the believer, empowers him and makes him decisively "out and out" for Jesus. This is what it means to be a "hot" disciple of His, decisive for truth ("yes") and decidedly against evil ("no").
