What Keys Do You Hold?

Now the door to Heaven is always open but we hold the key to opening their hearts and minds to step through the door that Jesus has provided. That sinner can’t come to Christ unless the Holy Spirit draws him, and when you use the key of the message of the Gospel, at that moment, the Holy Spirit is drawing them in, ever so gently.

If we tell someone about Jesus, opening the door with that key, I can almost see the angels waiting breathlessly, and Jesus looking down so lovingly and gently gesturing for that soul to enter in. I can see the door of the kingdom of Heaven swung open wide and the choirs of Heaven are standing and waiting for that sinner to make his decision.

If he decides to enter in, all of Heaven bursts forth with praise and singing, worshipping Jesus because one more sinner has found his way home. What we have opened with a key and loosed in the earth has forever been loosed in Heaven and the portals of Glory ring with celebration.

But, if that sinner refuses to step through the door, and turns his back on the message of the gospel, then the door that you have opened with your key is closed and locked as the Holy Spirit walks away grieved at the lost opportunity for another soul to come home.

I wonder if all the angel in Heaven shed a tear, and the choir of Heaven looks down with saddened faces, and I have no doubt that Jesus, looking down with his eyes of such love, drops his hand in sorrow and sheds a tear because His open door was not used.

When that door shuts on earth, it is closed in Heaven too. We can only pray that the sinner who has turned his back on Jesus will get another chance to face that open door but there is no promise of another chance, just as there is no promise of tomorrow.

(2) The Key of Faith (We can also include here, the Key of Trusting God)

The Key of Faith is another key that you and I hold this morning. Faith is the key to opening and closing many doors as we walk through this life. In fact, the Key of Faith is so important that without it, we can’t please God or be a disciple at all.

How does the Key of Faith work? Faith works only if it is activated, or put into action. Faith without works, or action, is like having a key in your pocket that you never use. A key unused is worthless.

I have a lot of keys hanging around my house on a number of key rings. Many of those keys have been there for a long, long time but they have not been used for years. The reason is that I have forgotten what they fit. Perhaps they are for a door that once was on my home that I have changed, or a lock on a toolbox that has long since been discarded, or someone’s home that I once had access to but no longer go to. Whatever the case, those keys are useless and should be thrown away.

So why don’t I throw them away? Because I’m afraid I might need them one day and I won’t have them anymore. I just might find the lock that they fit, or have to go into the door that they will open.

A lot of people have the Key of Faith in their lives but that key is just sitting in their life unused and they may as well cast it away for all the good it is doing for them.