- Jn 10 is like you standing in doors to Narnia First it was the children hurriedly opening a wardrobe door to quickly hide inside from the curiosity seekers who’ve come to view the imposing professor’s odd, old house.
It is not an ordinary wardrobe with an ordinary inside. Beyond the long fur coats that smell of mothballs, beyond the place where the back of the wardrobe should be and is not, is a land of destiny for Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie.
They had come to live at the odd old house to escape the Nazi bombing of London. Unexpectedly, through the back of the wardrobe, they enter another world, a world bewitched, where winter never stops and Christmas never comes; a world where animals talk and plot, where nymphs and fauns live oppressed under the power of an evil witch turned Queen who turns her enemies into stone statues, and where redemption eventually may come for all from The Lion, Aslan, who is a kind and fierce Lion, and who isn’t tame at all.
Then it was a picture of a sailing ship hanging on the wall that draws Lucy, Edmund, & Eustace Scrubb back into Narnia in the “Voyage of the Dawn Treader”
In the “Silver Chair” on a dreary damp fall day Jill Pole is being bullied by classmates when Eustace Scrubb helps her getaway. Through what is supposed to be a locked door at the back of the school yard in a stone wall. They find themselves on a bright June day in another realm. Their doorway takes them into the wild wastelands of the North where giants live and into Underland.
The most wonderful door of all is in the “Last Battle”. Where the stable door takes you inside or is it outside and the inside is bigger and more wonderful than the outside.
- v.6 We are left breathless with something about a door
- John 10:6KJV
6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
- Like Narnia each time God uses a door we find
ourselves breathless
■ Ark - Gen 7:16
Genesis 7:16KJV
16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
■ 1st Passover - Ex.12:22-23
Exodus 12:22-23KJV
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. 23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
■ Door of the Tabernacle Ex 27:16
Exodus 27:16-17KJV
16 And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four. 17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.
Exodus 27:16-17 The Living Bible
16“The entrance to the court will be a 30-foot-wide curtain, made of beautifully embroidered blue, purple, and scarlet fine-twined linen, and attached to four posts imbedded in their four sockets. 17All the posts around the court are to be connected by silver rods, using silver hooks, the posts being imbedded in solid bronze bases.
■ Last Door in Heaven - Rev.3:20
Revelation 3:20KJV
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
- Jn 10:1 A door to a sheep fold is the poorest form of door.
- A sheep fold consisted of four walls and a hole in one side
- At sundown, a shepherd would stand in the doorway and spread his legs wide and let the sheep enter that way between his legs, and count them.
- When they are all safely in the sheepfold the shepherd would sit down and sleep in the doorway
- He was the door.
- No sheep can get out but over his body".
❶ THE DOOR
Jn. 10:9 - I am the door: by me if any man enter
in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
1. Necessary
- Suppose there had been none, we could never have entered into God’s
- Truth
- Salvation
- Purity
- Peace
- Security
2. Singular
- There are not half-dozen ways out of our sin and misery
- There’s not a choice of ways over the steep hills and desolate waste-places of this mortal life, so that by any of the we may reach heaven at last,
- There’s only one door; let us not weary our selves to find another.
Acts 4:12KJV
12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
- Salvation is by entrance at that door and at none other
3. Personal
■ Note “I” v. 1,7 - “I say” “I am” v.9,10,11, 14,
- Jesus Himself is that door
- Not ceremonies
- " doctrines
- " professions
- " achievements
- Just the Lord Himself ----> My sacrifice
❷. THE USERS OF IT
1. The Passage
- Not door examiners
- Not door knockers (Playing knock-down-ginger)
- Not door designers
- Nor Guards marching to and fro in front of it
- Entered in by -- Faith & Love
2. The Qualification
- v.9 - Any man
- Persons who have entered in
- A door which is conspicuously marked as THE DOOR is evidently meant to be used.
- The remarkable advertisement of
"I am the door" and the special promises applied to it are the most liberal invitation imaginable
❸. THE PRIVILEGES OF THESE USERS
1. For Salvation
- "He shall be saved"
- At once
- Forever
- Altogether
2. For Liberty
- "He shall go in and out"
- Not a prison door
- Shepherds gives freedom
3. For Access
- "Shall go in and out"
- For pleading
- For hiding
- For fellowship
- For instruction
- For enjoyment
4 For Passage
- "He shall go in and out"
- For service
- For progress
5. For Nourishment
- "And find pasture" Spiritual found
-- Through Christ
-- In Christ
-- Around Christ
- We cannot go out of this place or into our homes
and every time we enter and leave a building without passing through an emblem of Jesus "A door"
- So near as He is in type
- So near let Him be in reality
