09/25/2020
" BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK. IF ANYONE HEARS MY VOICE AND OPENS THE DOOR, I WILL COME IN TO HIM AND DINE WITH HIM, AND HE WITH ME. "
REVELATION 3:20
Behold!
(a) Perceive with your visual faculty ( i.e, open your eyes to see; both physically and spiritually )
(b) Perceive through the use of your mental faculty ( i.e, comprehend or understand; both spiritually and physically )
(c) Pay attention!
I Stand At The Door:
What door ? The door of your heart; the door of your mind; the door of your soul; the door of your spirit; the door of every area and facet of your life: in fact every closet of your life. ( Deut. 11:13; Josh. 22:5; Deut. 13:3; Matt. 22:37; Mk. 12:30,33; Lk. 10:27; Rom. 10:10; Philippians 4:7; Isa. 26:3, Ezek. 18:4; Gen 2:7; 1 Chron. 22:19; Ps. 49:8; Num. 27:18; Rom. 8:16 )
Who Is Standing At Your Door?
The LORD JESUS CHRIST, The Faithful Witness, The Firstborn from the dead, The Ruler Over the Kings of the Earth; He Who loves the world and have shared His Blood to wash your sins, The Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last, Who was and Who Is and Who Is to come, The Almighty, The Resurrection and the Life, Who lives forevermore; The One Who holds the keys of Hades and of Death, He Who is Holy , He Who is True; He Who holds the Key of David, He Who opens and no one shuts and shuts and no one opens, The Creator of all things! ( Rev. 1:5,6,8,11,18,; 2:8,12,18; 3:1,7,14, )
He Stands And Knocks ! Why?
Gentlily knocking at the door, remember He could have entered without knocking ( John 20:19,26 ). He wants to come in into your heart, mind, soul , body and into your life; your health, your finances, your marital life, business life, your career, you christian life, etc., to help you, to save you, to heal you, to direct and teach you, to dine and sup with you; to deliver, protect, defend, to walk with you and eventually take you with Him to heaven , to live with you forevermore! ( Ps 46:1-7; Acts 4:12; Matt 18:11; Lk. 19:10; Matt 4:23; etc., )
If Anyone Hears My Voice And Opens The Door!:
The grace to hear the Lord calling and knocking at our doors is key to our ability to welcome Him into our lives. ( Rev. 2:7; 3:6,13,22; Jn 12:47; 5:25; Matt 7:24; Isa 55:3; 29:18; Ps 85:8, etc., ). So we pray for those who cannot see or behold and hear and perceive and understand, the Lord standing and knocking and calling to enter into their lives and save them. ( Unbelievers )
However, there are some of us , " believers ", that have seen and heard the Lord , and even opened the doors of our lives, but not FULLY unto HIM. Some of us have only allowed Christ into just a little bit of our lives; may be just the hallway or some just into the living rooms of our lives.
There are closets and cardboards, kitchen cabins and boxes, suit cases , bedroom closets, underneath our beds and other furniture etc., full of prohibiting items that is not making and will not make Christ Jesus feel at home to sup and dine with us. ( Rev. 3:20 ).
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Some of us still have a lot of Galatians 5:19-21 stuff such as adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, lies, envy ,murders, drunkenness, revelries ; and others like stealing of all kinds, from home, work, church and from national coffers , unchristian marital practices and all forms of irresponsible behaviors .
We do not want Him to dine and sup with us in our marriages, finances, careers, educational and intellectual lives, etc.
Christ Jesus wants to put on our lives dinning tables and sup with us such things and more as the stuffs in Galatians 5:22-23, the delicacies of the Holy Spirit; love , joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, against such there is no law.
For those who have beheld and heard the voice and knocking of Christ Jesus, and have opened their doors fully to dine with Him and HE with them, have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires, and live in the Spirit and walk in the Spirit. ( Gal 5:25,26 )
Amen.
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