Revelation 3

Yesterday, I commented on -

"...a pattern in all things, that ye may not be deceived..." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 52:14)

As the Lord continued to counsel and rebuke His "stars" or servants of the Churches in Asia, he explains -

"As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten..." (New Testament | Revelation 3:19)

To one servant he acknowledges -

"I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." (New Testament | Revelation 3:15 - 16)

Explaining -

"Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked..." (New Testament | Revelation 3:17)

A direct warning that we are commanded to -

"...visit the poor and the needy and administer to their relief..." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 44:6)

Therefore, being on that He loves -

"I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see." (New Testament | Revelation 3:18)

In my mind, the Lord's "gold" is the gospel, exaltation or eternal life that has been tried or "proven". So again in chastening love, He counsels -

"...be zealous therefore, and repent." (New Testament | Revelation 3:19)

With that counsel, who can doubt that repentance is required to receive of God's gold for -

"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." (New Testament | Revelation 3:20)

Again, the Lord teaches the promises to those that repent and keep His commandments -

"Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name." (New Testament | Revelation 3:12)

This is His "gold". And again to emphasize our potential, the Lord declares -

"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." (New Testament | Revelation 3:21)

As children of our Father in Heaven, the more we ponder that declaration, the clearer our potential becomes.