Closing Remarks To Laodicea

Let us muse on Revelation 3:19 and some closing remarks to Laodicea. Our Lord reminds this church of the last days of what we can expect if we belong to Him. The little phrase ‘as many as I love‘ tells of the redemptive love that He has for His people. He tells us that if He loves us He will ‘rebuke‘ us and ‘chasten’ us. The word ‘rebuke’ has the thought of a verbal admonition. The word ‘chasten’ deals with a more severe admonition of going to God’s woodshed. He warns us to be ‘zealous‘. The word has the idea of pressing on under the worst odds. We are reminded of a need to ‘repent‘ which means to have a radical change of mind about sin. What great words of warning to our church today.