Jesus Christ, The Door-This Week’s Spirit Journal

This 10^th chapter of John’s gospel is in this writer’s opinion one of the most important passages I feel in all the Word of God.  The Lord Jesus Christ is the DOOR. My Lord, I feel the anointing of the Holy Spirit on those words. There is NO other way to God except one come through Christ. There is no other way to Christ except one come through repentance and faith in the Cross. It is through the door of the Lord’s sacrifice that we come into the very presence of God.

When man fell in the garden the access into that presence was forever barred. When one beheld the Jewish temple and saw the beautiful sanctuary designed by God to be a picture of the heavenly temple, one could not help but know in their heart that the veil inside the Holy Place was in type a picture of the shut “door” between fallen man and God.

When Jesus spoke in John 10 spoke of Himself being the “Door,” He was in essence saying that because of man’s sin, man was unable to come into the presence of God without being stricken dead just as the Priest of old would be stricken dead if he dared go behind the veil with sin in his life where the Holy of Holies was, the cherubim looking down on the Ark of the Covenant where lay the broken law, Aaron’s budded rod and the manna from the wilderness – all three pictures of not only Israel’s rebellion against God but all humanity’s as well!

Jesus had told the Pharisees on a past occasion that they would “die in their sin,” and that they would not be able to come where He was going. However, because of what Christ did at the Cross, the door into the presence of God is now made available to all who will come to Christ in faith. Through the blood into the presence of God! Through the blood we now have access. Through the blood man does not stand any longer outside the commonwealth of Israel but we are now brought near.

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