“ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. ”
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten - Of course, only on the supposition that they deserve it. The meaning is, that it is a proof of love on his part, if his professed friends go astray, to r...
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be (k) zealous therefore, and repent. (k) Zeal is set against those who are neither hot nor cold.
Revelation 2:1 to Revelation 3:22 . The Letters to the Seven Churches. These letters are addressed to individual churches, but their messages are intended for the Church as a whole. In every let...
love. App-135. This is preceded by Greek. ean (App-118. a). Compare Isaiah 43:4 . &c. rebuke . convict. Greek. elencho. See John 16:8 .
DISCOURSE: 2503 EPISTLE TO LAODICEA Revelation 3:19 . As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent . IN the epistles to the seven Churches of Asia, there is an exce...
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. As many as I love - So it was the love he still had to them that induced him thus to reprehend and thus to counsel them. Be...
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. ( Proverbs 3:11-12 .) So Manasses ( 2 Chronicles 33:11-13 ). As many. All. 'And shalt thou be an exception? If ex...
The Epistles to the Seven Churches (concluded) 1-6. To the Church in Sardis Christ speaks as He who gives the spirit and looks for spiritual life. There is no praise for this Church. Its life is w...
I rebuke and chasten. — The first word is that used in the work of the Holy Spirit ( John 16:8 ), and signifies to bring conviction; it is not empty censure. The second word signifies to educate by...
“I Stand at the Door and Knock” Revelation 3:14-22 It is better to be cold than lukewarm, for in the latter case all that God's love can do for the soul has only produced a moderate result, whi...
The letter to the Church in Sardis covers the period of the Reformation. The Church was addressed as "dead." Yet there were things remaining which were not dead, but "ready to die." The address is la...
(14) And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; (15) I know thy works, that thou art n...
LOVE’S CHASTENING ‘As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be Zealous, therefore, and repent.’ Revelation 3:19 Let us think of sickness and suffering in what is undoubtedly one of its most...
As many as I love I rebuke and chasten ,.... The persons the objects of Christ's love here intended are not angels, but the sons of men; and these not all of them, yet many of them, even all who are...
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Ver. 19. As many as I love ] q.d. Think not that I hate you, because I thus chide you. He that escapes reprehension ma...
Because thou sayest, I am rich In gifts and grace, as well as worldly goods; and increased with goods Greek, και πεπλουτηκα, literally, And have enriched myself , by my own wisdom and virtue; a...
The Assembly at Sardis (vv. 1-6) The message to the assembly at Sardis has a very different character, for instead of being a development from Thyatira, it is rather a revulsion from it. Sardis...
The Church in Laodicea. A. D. 95. 14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans writ...
OLBGrk; I rebuke and chasten; elegcw kai paideuw the words may be translated, I convince and instruct, or deal with them as children; but it also signifies to chasten, and is so translated, 1...
‘As many as I love, I reprove and punish for their own good. Be zealous therefore and repent (have a change of heart and mind).' (See Proverbs 3:11-12 for the idea of chastening, cited in Hebrews...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Revelation 3:14 . Laodiceans .—The city of Laodicea was situated on the banks of the Lycus, near Hierapolis and Colossæ. Archippus was possibly the angel of this Ch...
Revelation 3:15 , Revelation 3:19 I. Look at the loving rebuke of the faithful Witness: "Thou art neither cold nor hot." We are manifestly there in the region of emotion. The metaphor applies...
Epistle the fifth. Revelation 3:1 . Sardis, once a flourishing city, the residence of ancient kings, now a miserable village, having but few christians. This is not the Sardis, capital of Lydia...
The Laodiceans. Laodicea--the self-complacent Church Laodicea is the type of a self-complacent Church. Underneath the condemnation of luke-warmness there is a yet more heart-searching lesson. L...
EXPOSITION Revelation 3:1-66 The epistle to the Church at Sardis. This Church is one of the two which receives unmixed reproof. Smyrna and Philadelphia receive no blame; Sardis and Laodic...
The letter to the congregation at Laodicea:
1 Corinthians 11:32 ; 2 Corinthians 6:9 ; 2 Corinthians 7:11 ; 2 Samuel 7:14 ; Deuteronomy 8:5 ; Galatians 4:18 ; Hebrews 12:5-11 ; Isaiah 26:16 ; James 1:12 ; Jeremiah 10:24 ; Jeremiah 2:...
The Churches at Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea Revelation 3:1-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We present some of the outstanding things written to the Church at Sardis. This is the fifth Church in t...
Whomsoever I love — Even thee, thou poor Laodicean! O how much has his unwearied love to do! I rebuke — For what is past. And chasten — That they may amend for the time to come.