Revelation
3:14-22
14 To the Angel of the
Church of Laodicea write:
These are the words of
the Amen,
The Faithful and True
Witness,
The Ruler of God's
Creation.
15
I KNOW YOUR DEEDS,
THAT
YOU ARE NEITHER COLD NOR HOT.
I
WISH YOU WERE EITHER ONE OR THE OTHER!
16
SO, BECAUSE YOU ARE LIKEWARM--
NEITHER
HOT NOR COLD--
I
AM ABOUT TO SPIT YOU OUT OF MY MOUTH.
17
YOU SAY, 'I AM RICH,
I
HAVE ACQUIRED WEALTH
AND
DO NOT NEED A THING.'
BUT
YOU DO NOT REALIZE
THAT
YOU ARE WRETCHED, PITIFUL,
POOR,
BLIND AND NAKED.
18 I counsel you to buy
from Me Gold
Refined in the Fire, so
you can become rich;
And White Clothes to
wear,
So you can cover your
Shameful Nakedness;
And Slave to put on
your eyes, so you can see.
19
THOSE WHOM I LOVE I REBUKE AND DISCIPLINE.
SO
BE EARNEST, AND REPENT.
20
HERE I AM!
I
STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK.
IF
ANYONE HEARS MY VOICE AND OPENS THE DOOR,
I
WILL COME IN AND EAT WITH HIM,
AND
HE WITH ME.
21
TO HIM WHO OVERCOMES,
I will give the Right
to sit with Me on My Throne,
Just as I Overcame
And sat down with My
Father on His Throne.
22
HE WHO HAS AN EAR,
LET
HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS TO THE CHURCHES.
(Revelation 3:14-22)
Christ Jesus
declares that He is the Amen
(It will be as I say!),
The Faithful and True
Witness during His time on Earth,
And through His people,
upon His resurrection,
The Ruler of God's
Creation
As the King of kings
and Lord of lords.
He knows that the
Church of Laodicea
Is neither hot or cold
toward Him,
And wishes that they
were either one or the other,
As they would be easier
to deal with that way.
Because they are
Lukewarm,
Christ Jesus is about
to spit them out of His mouth,
And Sever Relationship
with them altogether;
The Cold of course are
already Lost.
The Laodicean Church
says of themselves
That they are Rich and
in need of nothing.
However, Christ Jesus
finds them
Wretched, Pitiful,
Poor, Blind and Naked.
God's view is
diametrically the opposite
Of the Church's view of
themselves.
Christ Jesus counsels
the Church
To come to Him and buy
Gold Refined in the Fire;
Allowing the Holy
Spirit to put His laws in their minds
And write them upon
their hearts.
Then they would become
Rich in Christ
By the Power of His
Holy Spirit;
They would have Gold
Refined in the Fire of His Holy Spirit;
Then the would have
White Clothes to wear,
To cover their Shameful
Nakedness;
Then they would have
Salve to put on their eyes,
So that they could see.
They would have Actions
and Deeds
Motivated by the Holy
Spirit.
Christ Jesus declares
That He Rebukes and
Disciplines those He loves;
He always warns them
when they have gone Astray.
He admonishes them to
be Earnest and Repent;
Their very lives are at
stake, Eternally.
Christ Jesus stands at
the door of every person
Who claims His name and
knocks.
Those who hear, open
the door to Him,
And He comes in and
eats with them,
And has Intimate
Communion with them.
To those who Overcome
this World and its ways
He will give the right
to sit with Him on His Throne,
Just as He sits at the
right hand of God the Father on His Throne.
Those of us who have an
ear,
Let us hear what the
Spirit is saying to His Church.
Today, unlike
the Church of Laodicea,
We must be Hot for God,
Full of the Fire and
Passion of His Holy Spirit;
An all consuming Zeal
for God;
Possessing Gold Refined
in the Fire of God;
Having Actions and
Deeds
That we can present to
Christ Jesus,
That have been
accomplished through Christ in us.
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