Hi there,
So there is a very clear lesson to be learned from Revelation (2:17), in fact: Christ gives us a white stone and written on it, a new name, if we will confess the things that displease Him. The lesson is very simple: are we as we were born in sin, or are we the One we became, when we put our faith in Christ?
Will you get to the end, and say "no, I want to be the old name, the old way, I repent of nothing"? Or will you get to the end and say "yes, I was an enemy of God, but now I confess I am as He wanted to have known me: by a name He does not put to shame"? Do you see that you must daily confess, you are no longer who you were?
The Bible makes clear Jesus suffered in prayer, even to the sweating of blood, but what it does not say, is that Jesus was daily making this prayer, that is why the pressure built up to the degree it did. If I could make it easier for you I would, but as long as you are not confessing, you are not pleading the blood of the Lamb - if I could make it lighter I would, but your new name is written on a white stone, it's testimony to your place with the Son of God could not be more perfect!
When all is said and done, you must confess and confess that you do not want to be known by another name - instead of the one on the white stone - at all. Do not be fooled, the world does not recognize this name, no one but Yeshua - Jesus - recognizes it as it should be recognized - not even I can fully grasp your joy at receiving this name: He alone speaks to your heart with this name, that you may have the glory He had, with His Father, wearing the Name that was given Him, not the old name, by which the world knew Him.
As much as you would change your mind, confess!
So there is a very clear lesson to be learned from Revelation (2:17), in fact: Christ gives us a white stone and written on it, a new name, if we will confess the things that displease Him. The lesson is very simple: are we as we were born in sin, or are we the One we became, when we put our faith in Christ?
Will you get to the end, and say "no, I want to be the old name, the old way, I repent of nothing"? Or will you get to the end and say "yes, I was an enemy of God, but now I confess I am as He wanted to have known me: by a name He does not put to shame"? Do you see that you must daily confess, you are no longer who you were?
The Bible makes clear Jesus suffered in prayer, even to the sweating of blood, but what it does not say, is that Jesus was daily making this prayer, that is why the pressure built up to the degree it did. If I could make it easier for you I would, but as long as you are not confessing, you are not pleading the blood of the Lamb - if I could make it lighter I would, but your new name is written on a white stone, it's testimony to your place with the Son of God could not be more perfect!
When all is said and done, you must confess and confess that you do not want to be known by another name - instead of the one on the white stone - at all. Do not be fooled, the world does not recognize this name, no one but Yeshua - Jesus - recognizes it as it should be recognized - not even I can fully grasp your joy at receiving this name: He alone speaks to your heart with this name, that you may have the glory He had, with His Father, wearing the Name that was given Him, not the old name, by which the world knew Him.
As much as you would change your mind, confess!
