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So what you are saying is that Jonathan Edwards didn't know Jack about the book of Revelation, huh? Well I came to the Lord in response to someone quoting Revelation 3:20. If that is true, then would you doubt my Salvation? I'm sure that dozens came to the Lord in response the Jonathan Edward's sermon that day. Would you doubt their Salvation?

Why must you insert things into what I wrote that I never said? Oh, I know why, I just want to see if you will admit it! You can't answer the Word, as written, so you attack the messenger, and attribute things to him that HE DID NOT SAY! Typical.

As if just because it was written to the assembly at Laodicea, that it didn't apply to anyone else. But look carfully. The letter was written to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans... So using your hermenutics, it didn't even apply to the Church, but God was chastising the Angel.

And the Lord would do this through a letter? When the Angel is a spiritual being? Obviously it was written for the church's enlightenment, reproval, and correction. It was the Church that the message was written to, through the agency of John the Apostle, to the Pastors of those churches, which the Greek word can also mean, and in this context, would be more accurate.

Assuming that Rev 3:20 does not apply to anyone but those already saved. Would you mind supplying me with as many verses as you can think of that apply to the unsaved. You Calvinists often say that, for instance, the Book of Romans was written so that it only applies to Christians. But when you come down to it, the letter only applies to those First Century Christians that were in Rome at the time that Paul wrote the letter. That is who the letter is addressed to. It is not addressed to the believers in Jerusalem. At any rate, just do me a favor. Give me a list of verses that I can quote to unbelievers that are actually addressed to unbelievers.

I'm not jumping through hoops for you. Your request is not from a heart that truly wants to know, but for the purpose of further slander and libel. If you can't understand the context of scriptures, you will fall short in your understanding of them. Salvation is not dependent on certain "correct" scriptures to be read or recited, any more than it is dependent on a certain prayer being uttered as some sort of a mantra or incantation. Salvation is of God, beginning to end.

"If any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him." Revelation 3:20

What is your desire this evening? Is it set upon heavenly things? Do you long to enjoy the high doctrine of eternal love? Do you desire liberty in very close communion with God? Do you aspire to know the heights, and depths, and lengths, and breadths? Then you must draw ear to Jesus; you must get a clear sight of Him in His preciousness and completeness: you must view Him in His work, in His offices, in His person. He who understands Christ, receives an anointing from the Holy One, by which He knows all things. Christ is the great master-key of all the chambers of God: there is no treasure-house of God which will not open and yield up all its wealth to the soul that lives near to Jesus. Are you saying, "O that He would dwell in my bosom"? "Would that He would make my heart His dwelling-place for ever"? Open the door, beloved, and He will come into your souls. He has long been knocking, and all with this object, that He may sup with you, and you with Him. He sups with you because you find the house or the heart, and you with Him because He brings the provision. He could not sup with you if it were not in your heart, you finding the house; nor could you sup with Him, for you have a bare cupboard, if He did not bring provision with Him. Fling wide, then, the portals of your soul. He will come with that love which you long to feel; He will come with that joy into which you cannot work your poor depressed spirit; He will bring the peace which now you have not; He will come with His flagons of wine and sweet apples of love, and cheer you till you have no other sickness but that of "love o'erpowering, love divine." Only open the door to Him, drive out His enemies, give Him the keys of your heart, and He will dwell there for ever. Oh, wondrous love, that brings such a guest to dwell in such a heart!

C.H. Spurgeon.

So you've God Jonathan Edwards and Charles Spurgeon both disagreeing with you on the use of Revelation 3:20 as a "salvation verse." Both of them are using it in a context that you say is inappropriate, and you have God using the verse in a mighty way to reap in the harvest.

With that in mind, do you have any comment?

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So you've GOT Jonathan Edwards and Charles Spurgeon both disagreeing with you on the use of Revelation 3:20 as a "salvation verse." Both of them are using it in a context that you say is inappropriate, and you have God using the verse in a mighty way to reap in the harvest.

With that in mind, do you have any comment?