Posts made in September, 2023

TEXT: ‘I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture’ (John 10:9). Doors are not a barrier to God, as the resurrected Jesus proved, ‘That evening the disciples were meeting behind locked doors, in fear of the Jewish leaders, when suddenly Jesus was standing there among them!’ (John 20:19 TLB). God has to work with our will, for that’s how He has chosen to do it. Reading the book of Revelation recently I noticed two doors – one shut, the other open and these form the basis for Today ‘s Teaching. 1. Shut Door A. Negative – ‘Behold I stand at the door and knock’ (Revelation 3:20) A church with Christ on the outside! What a contradiction. He’s patiently waiting to be invited in. However, He will not wait for ever, ‘I slept but my heart was awake. Listen! My beloved is knocking …… I opened for my beloved, but my beloved had left; he was gone’ (Song of Solomon 5:2, 6). Too slow to respond meant the Lord was gone. People wonder if God means what He says. ‘God is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does...