The Door To Abundant Life

Help us to see that He is the ONLY DOOR. There is no other hope for you and your children. There is no other way for people to be saved.

C-JESUS IS THE OPEN DOOR:

John 6:37- All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

The door is always open for the rich or poor, white or black, the up and out or the down and out, learned or unlearned, wise, or unwise, sick or the well.

Dr. H. A. Ironside, in his Lectures on Acts, recalls the story his mother told about his own dear father’s dying hour. The mother said, "Your father had this passage running through his mind. He kept repeating it constantly. ‘A great sheet and wild beasts and-and…’ He could not seem to get the next word but went back and started over. Once more he came to that same place. A friend bent over and whispered, ‘John, it says, "creeping things."’ "‘Oh, yes,’ he said, ‘that is how I got in, just a poor, good-for-nothing creeping thing, but I got in-saved by grace.’"

No matter how low and vile or utterly useless and corrupt or unclean, the soul that trusts Jesus is in the sheet let down from Heaven and will have a place in Glory by and by.

D-JESUS IS THE OPTIONAL DOOR:

Revelation 3:20- 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.

Prebendary Wilson Carlile founded the Church Army, an organization inside the Church of England working in the slums and with the poor. When King Edward was in his last illness, Dr. Carlile was invited to call on him at Buckingham Palace. Just before that, the king had decorated him for his work with the poor and the outcast. When the clergyman entered the bedchamber and approached the king, His Majesty called out faintly, "Well, Carlile, how are your tramps?" Before Carlile had time to reply, the king continued, "Never forget, Carlile, that tramps and kings need the same Saviour." Jesus said, "No man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

"God is no respecter of persons."-Acts 10:34.

Jesus Christ is the Door by which each one of us must enter to come to God but He does not force us, it is up to you and your will.

G. Campbell Morgan said that at a great meeting in Manchester, England, Holman Hunt’s beautiful picture of "Christ Knocking at the Door" was thrown upon the screen. "Why don’t they let Him in?" a twelve-year-old boy excitedly asked his father. "I suppose they don’t want to," his father answered. But that did not satisfy the boy. "Oh no, it can’t be that! Anyone would want to let Him in," he said, then added, "Oh, it must be because they’re living in the cellar." About the only reason people don’t let Christ in is that they are living in the cellar of their lives.

In an English churchyard is an inscription on the gravestone of a woman who lived in the eighteenth century. After the dates of her birth and death there are these words: SHE WAS A COUSIN OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD. It is little use putting that on a tombstone. Certainly it would carry no weight with the eternal God. Were we to think of that woman standing at the pearly gates and an angel crying out before her, "Make way for the cousin of the Duke of Bedford," we are sure that it would carry no weight with the One who sits upon the throne.