"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me," REV 3:20.

Our text speaks of the most blessed experience that any of God's dear children are privileged with, i.e., "I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."

When we have heard Jesus knocking, and the door of our heart is opened, we see the beauty in that fountain that was opened for all sin and uncleanness. Jesus' broken body truly becomes the Bread Of Life to our souls after we have learned to see the deplorable condition of spiritual death we were delivered from by the blood of His cross.

As Jesus sups with us, our hearts will sing of our Rock with David, "I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God," PSA 40:1-3.

Jesus is saying, those who "...hear my voice, [calling them to repentance] and open the door," of their hearts, experience these most blessed times of refreshing from the Lord. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord," ACT 3:19.

When there is true repentance, the power of rebellion is broken and replaced by the love Jesus spoke of in JOH 14:23, "If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him."

As Jesus said in the verse preceding our text, "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent." The blessed fruit of this expression of love makes us a candidate for supping with Jesus, and He with us. HEB 12:11 says, "Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby."

This peaceable fruit of righteousness, i.e., "...a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart," PSA 51:17, is the fruit of God's love for His dear children. The apostle Paul speaks of man's state of rebellion and spiritual death in EPH 2:1-3. Then V:4 begins with, "But God." The Fatherly love of God was the author of our salvation!

"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, [while we were still enemies] Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus," EPH 2:4-6.

Our text says, "I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me," so how do we sup with Jesus? When we sup with Christ's loved ones, we are supping with Christ!

Jesus gives us such a blessed account of this in His description of the judgment day in MAT 25:37-40. "Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Amen.