January 20th 2010 Wednesday Message Summary

Scriptures: Revelation 3:19-20 Reference: Matthew 25:31-46

The Lord disciplines and rebukes those that he loves, therefore we must work hard and repent. In the first scriptures, he rebukes those that he loves. Why does he rebuke those that he loves? Interest. If the Lord had no interest in us, he would not care about anything that we do or anything that happens to us.

“If I don’t love you, what relationship is there between you and me?” the Lord says. If we don’t love the Lord, we will have nothing to do with the Lord. The Lord gets involved because he loves us so much.

Today, the Lord says, “I rebuke those that I love.” If you love, you will rebuke and correct. If you don’t, then you don’t love. You can tell the Lord really loves a person when you see a person rebuked and beaten through the word.

The Lord rebukes in many different ways and for various reasons. Those who have been beaten by him know. If the Lord is doing it because he loves us, we must receive it gladly with a smile. We should be glad because then it will keep us from further harm. If we misunderstand and think he beats us because he hates us, we will only fall really distant from the Lord. That rebuke comes because he loves us.

Is it a beating to condemn us? Is it a beating to turn us back from what we’ve done wrong? Is it a beating so we will repent? We must understand what type of correction it is. We must realize that when we do wrong, the Lord picks up the rod of justice and correct us.
With the Lord, he rebukes justly 100%. There is a time when people rebuke and it is not just. There are cases when people say words of rebuke unjustly even though they are doing it with love. At times people punish because of anger and at times because they simply haven’t done it in a while; this is due to their own bad characters. When leaders see followers being rebuked or beaten unjustly, they must pray for them and resolve it for them with the Lord.

You must not beat people with harsh words or harsh rebukes or with actions that are too harsh. If you pick up the rod of rebuke with words, you must do it justly like the Lord. If it becomes a habit, it becomes even harder to repent for. This is a sin that you commit with your lips as well as your heart. The Lord brings this up because he goes around and sees this happening in the household and among people who love each other. People do it as if they were hitting their enemies in war.

Today the Lord who is king of kings proclaims this and says to make sure it does not happen ever again. Be careful with your tongues and the way you speak to people. Speak only in ways that give grace. Don’t say harsh things then repent all night long. You must not do it in the first place. If a person is rebuked too harshly, they will not grow right. These people are like sheep.

In the scriptures, it talks about how the Lord rebukes those that he loves, therefore we must repent. The Lord told those he rebuked to repent. Repentance is something that must be done. Repentance is the act of putting down your heavy burdens of sin. If you repent, the person who was influenced by the forces of death and heading down the path of death instantly changes to go towards the path of life.

“Repent, if you do, I will go into your heart, eat and enjoy with you, and live with and love you,” Jesus says. The Lord cannot enter the hearts of those who do not repent. First, we must repent. If you repent earnestly and thoroughly, you’ll hear a knock on the door of your heart. You must instantly answer that knock and let the Lord into your heart.

The Lord said, “Entrust your key to me and enter when I open the door and don’t enter if I don’t open it for you. If I keep you inside and close the door, then live the entire day working in your room.” “I can’t acknowledge them or trust them until they entrust their keys to me.”

If you entrust your key to the Lord, you can’t do anything that you wish. The reason why people do this and that as they wish is because they haven’t given their keys to the Lord. To entrust your key to the Lord means to live your life on the line and live within the bounds of God’s, HS’, and Jesus’ laws.

People who receive salvation are the Lord’s bodies. Human beings live by words and actions. Words are like contracts, but action is money. Anybody can just go around signing contracts, but it’s not until you pay with money, that it’s actually yours. Action is money. The doctrine of Providence faith is, “action.”

Right now the Lord is saying that those who are not doing what is being said in the word are people who are not opening their doors to the Lord. If you’re going to believe in the Lord, you must take action and believe. Don’t believe only with words and rejoicing only in our hearts.
The Lord also told us to guard our doors when dealing with others. We need to learn how to deal with people wisely. We must know how to fight against the evildoers and satans.

Demons gather together and figure out ways to tempt us and make plans to deceive us and how to make us open our doors to them. They treat us nicely first and give us revelations, then enter into our hearts and tempt us with love. They make us give up on ourselves, feel unappreciated, feel left out, fight against others, etc. They make plans of how they will attack. If they are planning like this, we must guard ourselves and fight back.

The Lord talked about the door of the heart and gave a strong command saying, “Just as you guard the front door, main gate, room door, and window, guard the door of your body, mind, actions, door of your spirit, and the windows of your spirits and bodies.” We must only entrust the keys to our hearts to the person we love the most.