| Consequences Of Sin And Forgiveness: Lesson 20: Doors With Keys 01/18/2014 by turtle Revelation 1:17-18 KJV (17) And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: (18) I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Today I am reflection of doors and how the story of Alice and Wonderland had a door Alice could not fit through and she desired to see what was on the other of the tiny door. In order to get through the door she had to drink and eat certain foods to fit through the little door. It was not that she did not have key to the door she could not fit through the door because she was too tall. The March Hare was able to fit through the door but she could not. She could kneel down and still not fit through the door. There is a point to message we hold the keys in our hands to eternal life and to eternal damnation. No! we hold no such key or keys. We have no power within our selves to shut the gates of hell or open the doors to eternal life unless we have Jesus. Unless Jesus has been welcomed into the door of our heart. The power we have is to keep the door close or to open to Christ. Once the door is open it can never be closed. For once we have one taste of the bread of life inside us, Jesus begins to do a work in our heart. Society wants to remove Jesus from our world. Society wants to get rid of the Word of God. But the Word of God will always be in existent in this world until the end of time and then heaven and earth will pass away. This world as we know it will change. New Jerusalem will come down and God’s people will go in out of the gates of Jerusalem who’s doors will never be shut. There are twelve gates, each of those twelve gates of heaven have one key in which one can use to enter through. There is much information about God circulating out there in the world, some true and some false. One can not receive truth without proof. God’s word must be true in order to receive the message of Christ. One might examine certain aspects of God’s word and ask can this be proven by man’s reasoning, scientific proof, or knowledge of truth. No door is going to be open without the Word of God being proven. Whether verbally given by God, read through scripture, or prophetic word given out by the Spirit of God through people, both of God and not of God, for even the devil believes, trembles and knows the word of God. The gates of heaven can not be open without Christ opening the door. Yet the door that leads to eternal life is through belief in Messiah. One will enter the throne room through knowledge of God meet God face to face and decision of whether you received God Word will be given. Jesus will either deny you or receive you. Based on whether you received or rejected Him. Simple enough right. Well to know Christ also holds the keys to hell. Means he knows first believing not in God will keep you outside of heaven. Believing in God gets you to the throne room. If you standing outside those city gates once dead you going to believe those gates are real and that there is a God, so your first ticket in is made clear, but the gate of salvation is shut to you, because you believed not in God before death. Then your deeds are read off, those things you did that were good and those things you did that were bad. Those thing you did was it for God or were they the works of devil, disguised as works of God. The keys to get out of heaven Christ holds as well. He holds the keys to allow and disallow sin. Pharaoh unbelief for a purpose. Peter denial for a purpose, Peter looking at the waves around him for a purpose, Peter, John, Paul and Silas disobedience to authority and kept on speaking for a purpose. Christ paying the price to set man free, so it is with freedom fighters of Christ going beyond the law, protected by God to set all mankind free. What ever the disciples bind or loosen on earth meaning allowed or not allows will set people free. The purpose is to set the captives of hell and darkness free. This is a spiritual fight and not an earthly fight, but it manifest itself often times in the physical. Man may try to stop but man can not keep it quiet, for the word of God is going forth, either by God’s power or by the work of the devil. Devil preaches hoping to turn our churches away from God, forgetting the power of God within the church. It only took David to kill Goliath. Alice you can not get through the door unless you eat the bread of life and drink from the cup of Christ. Dear Heavenly Father thank you for the remind that Christ holds the keys to hell as well as heaven. In Jesus precious name, Amen. http://www.turtle30cshell.com _ |
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