The Door(s) to an ancient heathen temple, like the Parthenon in Greece!
The Door to the Ark, built by Noah and an avenue of Hope!
Last week, while preaching a Revival in Kentucky, I made the two pictures featured here. Both focus on doors! And they remind me of a number of Bible Verses, perhaps John 10:9 being the most powerful.
Today’s Bible Lesson …
Folks, the door on the top is so ornate, expensive, attractive to the physical senses! It even had a plaque hung nearby describing its features. And as far as I could tell, it was size specific! BUT IT WAS A DOOR THAT LED TO DEATH! IDOL WORSHIP!
The door underneath lacked all the “fancy” attributes. It was plan and simple. In fact, it was the ONLY door on the Ark, a vessel 450 feet long! No Fire Marshall would have ever approved such a design! BUT IT WAS A DOOR THAT LED TO LIFE, REPRESENTING FAITH AND OBEDIENCE TO GOD ALMIGHTY!
Talk about a picture being worth a thousand words!
The Book of Proverbs says this … twice: “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 14:12 and 16:25, both references being essentially identical!
The Temple of Athena … DEATH! (An exact replica of the Parthenon has been built in the City of Nashville, Tennessee.)
The Door of the Ark, a Picture of Jesus … LIFE! (An exact replica of the Ark which God commanded Noah to build has been erected in Williamstown, Kentucky.)
In fact, Jesus actually said: “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” John 10:9
Get that?
“I AM THE DOOR!”
Today I have a question.
Which way are you walking?
Through which of the two doors have you entered?
The door to Life?
Or the door to death?
Listen to Jesus again, on this subject: “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Matthew 7:13-14, from the Sermon on the Mount.
By the way, when God invited lost mankind to enter the Ark, via that door … He specifically said: “Thou shalt COME into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.” Genesis 6:18
God did not say “GO into the Ark!” Rather, “COME into the Ark!”
Point being … GOD WAS ALREADY IN THE BOAT!
We go “through” Jesus, theologically “into” Jesus … the Door … to be saved!!!
Question today?
Are you IN?
— Dr. Mike Bagwell
One more Verse: “Therefore if any man be IN Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” See that word “IN?”
I am so thankful someone pointed me to the right Door!
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