19 Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I tell their faults and convict and convince and reprove and chasten [I discipline and instruct them]. So be enthusiastic and in earnest and burning with zeal and repent [changing your mind and attitude].
The Truth is that Jesus loves everybody! All things and all people exist by Him, for Him, and through Him, 1 Corinthians 8:6. Jesus has been given power and authority over all flesh, John 17:2. That means that Jesus alone is in charge of correcting all flesh, whether we accept this Truth or deny it and whether we believe in Him or don’t believe in Him. Our Father will use tools such as satan to carry out His will in our correction, but He never allows anything or anyone free will over us. Our Father never leaves us or forsakes us. Even during the Great Tribulation our Father is the One Who is in complete and total control.
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears and listens to and heeds My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him, and he [will eat] with Me.
Here we see that Jesus tells these people to open the door themselves, but to the church that He keeps, the church of Philadelphia, He tells us that He alone opened the door. You can imagine the sermons coming from the elders of the church of Laodicea: we need to accept Jesus, no man is promised tomorrow, you better come up here and bow down at this alter in front of the Pastor and accept Jesus as Lord. Open the door to Jesus or be damned for ever. I hear this kind of message being preached all of the time. But the Truth that sets us free is this: Jesus opens the door, He chooses us, and He gives us the power of the Holy Spirit to become one with Him.
When Jesus was here as a man 2000 years ago, He spoke in parables to all men. Then He would take His disciples aside and plainly tell them the Truth of what He had just spoken. Well, the Truth is that Jesus doesn’t change. Jesus spoke in this prophesy to all men and He has given His chosen ones the Holy Spirit to teach us all of the Truth that He spoke. They are all the same Words, the same Truth, but we know that it is Jesus within us, causing all of our Father’s judgments to come to pass in our lives. While those playing church look to themselves and not the Truth that will set them free! Now one day they will see the Truth. One day they will bow down, believe with their hearts, and confess with their mouths that Jesus is Lord. They will bow down before the Bride of Christ and acknowledge that our Father was right and they will learn the Truth from us and they will be set free. They will forever be our guests at our Wedding Feast. That is what Grace is and that is what is so glorious about the Truth that has set us free.
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