To Him Who Overcomes

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Rev. 3:20-21 “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.”

Charles Spurgeon has something interesting to say about the verse above:

“Notice that Jesus gives the call to individuals. He didn’t say, “If any church,” but if anyone. “We must not talk about setting the church right, we must pray for grace each one for himself, for the text does not say, ‘If the church will open the door,’ but ‘If any man hear my voice and open the door.’ It must be done by individuals: the church will only get right by each man getting right.”

And I will just add to what Spurgeon says above about the Laodicean Church:

We must remember that among the 7 Churches mentioned in the Book of Revelation, Laodicea is the worst. Our Lord has nothing to commend about this Church. Yet, the most eminent of all the promises is given to it. “To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne” showing us that the worst can repent, finally conquer, and attain even to the highest state of glory of even sitting in the Lord’s throne!