This really matters. “If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with me.” - Revelation 3:20 (NKJV)
There’s no choice, really. “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock.” - Revelation 3:20 (KJV)
Not everyone responds well. “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.” - Revelation 3:19 (KJV)
When God steps on your toes… “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.” - Revelation 3:19 (KJV)
Clear, spiritual vision… “Anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.” - Revelation 3:18 (NKJV)
Everyone loves a good deal. “Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.” - Isaiah 55:1 (NKJV)
That’s your fitness for heaven. “All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.” - Isaiah 64:6 (KJV)
Nothing ever fit so well. “Buy from me ... white garments, that you may be clothed.” - Revelation 3:18 (NKJV)
God wants everyone to be rich! “I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich.” - Revelation 3:18 (NKJV)
Ignorance is not bliss. “...that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.” - Revelation 3:17 (NKJV)
In between is disastrous. “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.” - Revelation 3:15 (NKJV)
Wealth can be a trap. “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing.” - Revelation 3:17 (KJV)
It’s important to be honest with God. “Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.” - Revelation 3:17 (NKJV)
An urgent message… “So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth.” - Revelation 3:16 (NKJV)
They were offended. “But He passing through the midst of them went His way.” - Luke 4:30 (KJV)
“I love you all.” “He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied.” - Isaiah 53:11 (KJV)
You always have something to pray for. “My heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.” - Romans 10:1 (KJV)
There’s a tradeoff somewhere. “Godliness with contentment is great gain.” - 1 Timothy 6:6 (KJV)
That might be difficult. “So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.” - Romans 14:12 (KJV)
God’s blessing can get you through. “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” - Genesis 6:8 (KJV)