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Revelation chapter 3 verse 19

Jesus says those whom I love

I reprove and discipline so be zealous and repent.

When you look at these two chapters, revelation two and three, as Jesus speaks to different churches,

you see him commending churches for different things, but then you also see him

disciplining and rebuking churches for different things for the ways they are

compromising in holiness for the ways they are being silent with the gospel and

he's calling them to to press in even when it's hard in the first

century as they're facing all kinds of pressure and persecution around them he's

calling them to trust in him to not compromise with the world to follow him to proclaim him and then you get to the

very end of this this chapter revelation three and he says I love you so much that I am reproving and disciplining you. So be zealous and

repent. This is where we know we know that discipline is a picture of love and

Hebrews talks about none of us likes discipline my my kids don't like

discipline but it's something I do is their dad because I love them when I see them going in the wrong direction.

When I see my child running out in the middle of the road and there's a car coming,

then there's gonna be disciplined.

Why?

Because I love them because I want them to see that's not good. So for us

to see the love of God in our lives in this way. For us today even to think, where am I wandering from your word? Where am I running from your word? Where am I in

disobedience to you? Where is my heart not pleasing to you? To ask him that and to ask God in love to show us

open our eyes to areas of our lives where we need to be reproved where we need to be disciplined and to welcome that as evidence of God's love for us.

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