THERE IS A KNOCK AT YOUR DOOR REV 3:20 NIV

THERE IS A KNOCK AT YOUR DOOR REV 3:20 NIV by Pastor Rosalie Bryant

“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.”

There is a knocking at the door this door is our heart to awaken us who are at ease or those who are asleep. The Lord wants to come in, will you let him in? He is knocking by his word and Spirit. Behold, I stand at the door and knock, He’s calling sinners into a covenant with him and saints into communion with him. Those whom he loves they will not be left alone in their carelessness, but he will find some way or other to awaken them or to rebuke and chasten them.

When we are unmindful of Christ, He still thinks of us, and provides for us that our faith fails not. Those that by faith who are espoused to Christ he looks upon them as his sisters, his brothers, his loves, his doves, and all that is dear to him and being clothed with his righteousness, they are undefiled this consideration should induce them to open to him. Christ’s love to us should engage our response to him, even in the most self-denying instances.

Open to me how can we deny entrance to such a friend to such a guest? Shall we not converse more with one that is infinitely worthy of our acquaintance, and so affectionately desirous of it, though we only can be gainers by it? He pleads in distress and begs to be admitted as under the character of a poor traveler that wants a lodging as his head is wet with the dew and with the cold drops of the night, consider what hardships they have undergone to merit thee which surely may merit from thee so small a kindness as this.

When Christ was crown with thorns which no doubt fetched blood from his blessed head then was his head wet with the dew. Consider what a grief it is to me to be thus unkindly as much it would be to a tender husband who to be kept out of doors by his wife in a rainy stormy night. Do we thus require of him for his love as the slights which careless souls put upon Jesus Christ are as a continual dropping of him in a very rainy day who on the outside wanting to come in and be with them. Mat 7:7 -8, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”

God is himself found of those that seek him, and if we find him we have enough. Knock and it shall opened the door of mercy and grace which shall no longer be shut against you as enemies and intruders, but opened to you as friends and children who is at the door knocking in faith and doubt will not have admission. If the door be not opened at the first knock continue instant in prayer it is an affront to a friend to knock at his door and then go away though he tarry yet wait if they come in faith for God is no respecter of persons.

This door is the heart of a man or woman who will open up to his knocking so that he will come in and set with them and have fellowship. Jesus said that He wanted to come in and sup with them and with him if they would open into him and let him in. If I had not been a lover of your souls, if I had hated you, I would have let you alone to go on in a sinning state till it had been your ruin.

Sinners ought to take the rebukes of God’s word and rod as tokens of his good will to their souls and should accordingly repent in good earnest and turn to him that smites them because he loves them and cares about them. Joh3:16-18 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

He that believeth on him is not condemned but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Jesus Christ came to save us by pardoning us that we might not die by the sentence of the law that is death. Rom 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Here is the gospel indeed good news the best that ever came from heaven to earth. Here is much here is all in a little the word of reconciliation in miniature. The offer that is made of salvation by him is general that whosoever believes in him without exception might have benefit by him. The salvation offered is complete they shall not perish, shall not die of their wounds though they may be pained and ill frightened iniquity shall not be their ruin but that is not all.

They shall have eternal life this is good news to a convinced conscience healing to broken bones and bleeding wounds, that Christ, our judge came not to condemn but to save us. Jas 5:9 “Grudge not one against another, brethren lest ye be condemned behold, the judge stand before the door,” is better than the frowns and wounds of a friend than the flattering smiles of an enemy.

If they would comply with his admonitions he was ready to make them good to their souls. Behold, I stand at the door and knock Christ is graciously pleased by his word and Spirit to come to the door of the heart of sinners he draws near to them in a way of mercy ready to meet them with a loving kind visit even if He finds the door shut against him. The heart of man is by nature shut up against Christ by ignorance and unbelief, sinful prejudices but when he finds the heart shut up he does not immediately withdraw but he waits to be gracious even till his head be filled with the dew and the door of their heart is open up and he can come in.

Psa 24:7 -8 “Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.” This is why the LORD is knocking at your hearts door for he wanted to be able to come in and fight for you in trouble time, he want to be a healer for you when you are sick, a saver when you need deliverance, a friend when you need comforting. Psa 24: 3-5 says “Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart who has not lifted up his soul to an idol. Nor sworn deceitfully. He shall received blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.”

God in his word and ordinances should thus be welcomed by us with great readiness and the doors and gates must be thrown open to him.

Let the words of the Lord come into the innermost and uppermost place in your hearts and souls by give authority to him with all reverence, and remember how great a God he is in all our approaches. Entrance once and again is demanded for the King of glory the doors and gates are to be thrown open, thrown wide open to give him admission for behold he stands at the door and knocks, ready to come in. Enquiry is made concerning this mighty prince who is demanding a entrance, as like when someone knocks at our door it is common to ask who is there, when we are satisfied as to it is we open and let them in. “THERE IS A KNOCK AT YOUR DOOR” Will you open it?

AMEN BE BLESSED!

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