Episode 11 - Revelation 3:14-21 Part 2 Let me come in and we'll share a meal together

It's at the end of Revelation chapter three, of that letter to the church in Laodicea, and let me just read those couple of verses.

"Behold, or 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 that person and they with me.

To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on His throne.

Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches." So Jesus has invited the people of the impoverished church of Laodicea to buy spiritual treasure from Him, but now He invites them to receive the greatest of all those spiritual treasures, renewed close fellowship with Him.

And we've been saying that the key to Christ likeness is indeed staying close to Jesus and catching likeness to Him by what C.S. Lewis called good infection.

So as this letter to the church at Laodicea reaches a climax, Jesus utters words which are undoubtedly among the most famous in the Bible and the most widely used, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." Now, while some interpreters think that He is saying this to the church as a whole, that we are to picture Him standing outside the church where they have pushed Him, and to imagine Jesus knocking on the door to regain entrance to the church, a very vivid picture, the words nonetheless require an individual response.

So it is valid to think of Him knocking at the door of our own hearts and asking for access, or renewed access, to the innermost part of our life, to renew an intimacy with Him which we may have lost.