Hebrews 3

 

Hebrews 3

     I live at 2015 South Nicollet Street.  Sioux City, Ia.  It’s a big house.  It has three entry doors, two of which have accesses guaranteed by a numeric code on the lock.  I decide who is invited and who is shunned.  In the event my home is intruded upon, I will call the police to forcefully evict the perpetrator.

     God is similar.  He, according to metaphor, has built a house.  He has marked the door and proclaimed the only safe entry would be through His Son.  Not through a window, rather all must bow to be invited and meet the usual greeting under the Door’s frame.  Blood be upon the exterior lintels.  The guest must recognize the liking and adhere to the conditions set forth.  It is said, “All who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.”  Therefore, everyone who enters must confess whose blood was shed.  God has His rules.  Those who violate given protocol will find themselves forced off the steps of His abode.

     God is discriminatory.  His children gain free access to come and go as they please.  Rising to work or play, outside is met in the calling of the day.  Stanchions placed by doors know which ones are His.  He tells us not to forego His rest.  Only those in faith know the access code or rather are marked visibly as His.  We enter.  We rest only by His Door.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sojourning

  Sojourning Sojourn: a temporary stay Hebrews 11: 8  “ By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. 9  By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country , dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10  For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. ”      This indeed is a strange place.   I call my house T.L.A. or Temporary Living Accommodations.   In the Air Force, TLA housed those who were just passing through.   Like airman using the base as a skipping stone to get to their next assignment.   Hotels of sorts, they offered the comforts of home on a smaller scale.      We are a people set in Babylon.   Even in Sodom as we shut the doors as night.   This world so interferes wit...
Read more

The Church Picture

  The Church Picture 2 Samiuel 6: 20  “ Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself! 21  And David said unto Michal, It was before the  Lord , which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the  Lord , over Israel: therefore will I play before the  Lord . 22  And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour. ” Revelation 4: 10  “ The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 11  Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive ...
Read more

God's Successive Revelations

  God’s Successive Revelations Search Me diligently, and I will reveal Myself to you.      Yah, that sound like something God would say.   I understand He revealed the Trinity to us.   I plead ignorance in Church history.   Some theologians, perhaps 400 A.D. came upon this gem that we hold true today.   The idea of the rapture is new on the Church radar.   Late 1800’s?      What if God revealed His truth to His people in time?   Surely, Solomon was the wisest man in his day, but did he know about Pentecost?   Daniel, the far seer, was only shown glimpses.   What did he know of Peter and miracles in the temple?   A certain king discovered God’s truth again and that made for a reformation, but what did he know of the beast standing in the sea?   God gives insight in His time.      I have trained seven children.   As young  children, I did not flood them with...
Read more