If Any Man Hears My Voice

The baptist argument that Christ asks you to open your heart and all you have to do is let him in is very devious because they fail to recognize the chronology, it was given to those who were already christians. The context is repentance not initial salvation. Though they twist it into faith only, it is actually the context of works.

1. It was to the church, thus they were already christians.

2. It was reflecting on their works.

3. It required them to hear Christ's voice.

4. It required them to overcome, thus even though Christians, their salvation wasn't completely set.

5. It was a message to those already in the Church. Thus not a precedent against baptism or any other command.

Rev 3:14  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; 

Rev 3:15  I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 

Rev 3:19  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 

Rev 3:20  Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 

Rev 3:21  To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 

Rev 3:22  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. 

This does show that Christ evaluates your works and requires improvement.

Opening the door means accepting the message of repentance to Christ.