She had not listened sufficiently to Jesus’s authoritative voice in the Scriptures, or to the prophetic voices of warning that he had repeatedly sent to her. She too had grown very prosperous and yet did not realize how wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked she had become. Unrestrained corruption of power and wealth was a sin-cancer that had metastasized in the Roman Catholic Church and spread to many of her leaders and, through them, into her doctrines and practices. On October 31, 1517, Jesus, through a little-known German priest/professor named Martin Luther, came quite literally knocking on the Wittenberg door of the Roman Catholic Church. But because he loved these lukewarm Christians, he lovingly disciplined them with hard words and called them to zealous repentance and reformation. Their prosperous tepidness made him want to gag. Jesus was pounding on the door of a church whose trust in an idol put them in grave spiritual danger. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.” (Revelation 3:15–19)
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I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
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Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. “I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Jesus was pounding on the Laodicean’s door with the urgency of emergency: This invitation came on the heels of a bracing rebuke and serious warning. In reality, he was anything but soft and tender, gentle and mild. Paintings inspired by this verse tend to portray a gentle Jesus mildly knocking. Pulled out of its context, this verse can sound like Jesus was calling softly and tenderly. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.” (Revelation 3:20) 95, Jesus, through the apostle John, came metaphorically knocking on the door of the church in Laodicea with an unsurpassed invitation: You simply have to open the door.Sometime around A.D. Let Him come into your house and be your Savior and Lord. When no one else is willing to, Jesus will listen to us. They never come to Jesus because they never get things sufficiently cleaned up on their own. They want Jesus to see them all cleaned up and straightened up. Some people make excuses and want to wait to come to Jesus.
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He knows about the mess in the closets of our lives and the stuff we don’t want Him to see. We can tell Him anything that we want to. Jesus wants to have fellowship with us-talking and spending time together. Jesus makes a promise that He will, without a doubt or hesitation, come into our hearts if we open the door. Jesus wants to help us clean up the mess of our lives. What would you do if Jesus knocked on the your door of your house and asked to come in? Would their be panic that the house isn’t in order Some think that they have to clean up their lives first and get straightened up, They try to do it by their own power. Do you recognize Jesus by how he speaks to you? Many times, we recognize people by their voice. It is important that we know the voice of Jesus when He speaks to us. He does not break the door of our heart down. He does not force his way into our lives. Jesus states that he is on the outside-knocking on the door. ‘Behold’ means to listen up & don’t forget. Laodicea was the church which Jesus was addressing in the scripture today. The first three chapters of Revelations are the words of Jesus as he gave to John which contain the letters to the 7 churches. A book of revealing Jesus to us in a more perfect way and the promises of God for the future. God used this time in John’s life to give him a message-the book of Revelation. Prisoners were sent there to never return and it was a place of isolation.
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John was exiled to the island of Patmos because the Roman government felt threatened by his preaching and teaching about the gospel of Jesus Christ and the growing Christian churches. John was the only disciple that lived to old age and died a natural death occurred. Tags: accept Christ, knocking, Revelations, standing at the door Behold I Stand at the Door and Knock JPosted by Lori Sams,