Revelation 3:15,16 (NLT) “I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other! 16 But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth!

Revelation 3:17 (NLT) You say, ‘I am rich. I have everything I want. I don’t need a thing!’ And you don’t realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

Revelation 3:20 (NLT) Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.

Intimacy

Religion allows us to treat God respectfully, but not intimately.

John 16:1-3 (ESV) “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. 3 And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

BIG idea – True intimacy with God comes when we learn to fear Him.

To know God, is to fear Him. And to fear Him is to know Him.

1. Time

2. Transparency

3. Submission

Intimacy is the fruit of mutual submission.

Revelation 3:20 (NIV) 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 that person, and they with me.

BIG idea – True intimacy with God comes when we learn to fear Him.

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