Re: Rev. 3:20 A verse about intimacy with Jesus, not "asking Jesus into your heart"
The thought is correct, but the conclusion is all too me, myself and I ordinated (physical), it seems. Yes, the text does point to this fact, but the prerequisite is to know Christ already, and we should always have an intimate relationship with Christ, but the text is also literally in contest to all that is stated before this description, correct about the water supplies in the city at that time there was neither water hot enough for a good bath nor cool enough for a soothing drink, but He is also taking about our Spiritual welfare.
The seven letters written to the seven Church ages through out the church age that will come to an end with the rapture, Laodicea represents the Church age just before Christ's return, if we look and the 1st verse of the 4th chapter of this revelation of Jesus Christ, we see the sudden change form the physical world to the spiritual realm, the rapture just might be right there in that verse, because everything before was physical and everything now in spiritual.
The letter and the text that is here about the church in the end times and if our spiritual eyes open and can see then it is right on the money in it's description, for the church has left it's first love, this is not a description of all blood-bought in all churches just of the general church at this time.
Strange doctrines, music that gives one a fuzzy warm feeling but little else (no doctrine), not all music but the general movement is headed this direction, and what is being preached about in the churches, I ma not all too sure but we need to become "fully devoted followers of Jesus" in order to fulfil our mission here in this world, spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.
it does remind us, that all of us who serve inthis or other Churches, that is not if you do Gods work, but how you do Godswork.
For the bible tells us one day that Osiyo Wado will stand at the Judgment seat of Christ and Gods going to ask me, why I served this Body of Christ, and with what Spirit?
And in a day when Gospel music and Gospel preaching and Gospel work can become so mechanical or ordinated toward me, myself and I. It reminds all of us today that we have to do Gods work with Gods Spirit. We have to do Gods work and approach it with Gods heart because one day, it does not matter if your friends approve of you or how popular you are or I might be. One day the Bible says I will stand, in front of the one whose eyes are like fire, and I can’t get over on Him. There is going to come that day when Paul says that we’ll all stand at the judgment seat of Christ. And we’re going to have to give a review to the Lord, and we will be reviewed, on why we did what we did and how we did it.
As we do Gods work, we must not rob the Glory that is only due to Him. That whatever we do, whatever we say, the Lord wants to remind us through this, that all the Glory and all the honor must go to Jesus Christ.
This is the first principle of Religion, so listen closely. Jesus said My House, my Father’s House shall be called a House of Prayer. The atmosphere of My Father’s House is supposed to be prayer. The atmosphere around the things of My Father must be that aroma of people opening their hearts and coming to my Father in worship and in partition and supplication. And instead of keeping that atmosphere and aiming at that atmosphere and understanding my Father’s purpose, the thing that is supposed to distinguish Christian Churches and Christian people and Christian gatherings, is the aroma and the atmosphere, of prayer. You might say well Brother Osiyo that is not our style, we come from a different tradition, it doesn’t matter what your tradition is, or what my tradition is, its His Father’s House.
And we have in the day that we live in allot of revisionism going on, but it’s not coming from the Church Conferences, or Government, it’s coming from the Church. We are revising what a Church is today, the Bible says and they continued, this early Church, they continued steadfastly in the Apostles Doctrine, and in fellowship and in the breaking of bread and in prayer. Now we have revised that and said, if you can get people for one hour on Sunday morning in a building, that’s the Church, that’s not the Church. We can use every device we want to get people for one hour, and keep it early, and keep it moving, and keep it going, because people have important things to do that day. That’s not the story of the Christian Church, that might be the story of your Church, but that’s not the Church Jesus built. In the history of revivals down through the ages have taught us that whenever things have grown craze, commercial, secular and hard and worldly, God sends a revival. And what’s always the sign of a revival? Behold, they pray, the Church begins to pray. Moody goes somewhere in England, and they begin to pray. Finney goes to upstate New York, and they begin to pray. The great awaking happens in America, and they begin to pray, who was the fancy preacher? Nobody, they prayed. Where was the great music, awe they made great psalms, but that was not the great thing about it, they prayed. Prayer preceded it, prayer kept it going, and the minute prayer ended, the Spirit of God lifted and we got back into tough times for the Church of Jesus Christ
