My husband preached on Revelation Sunday morning. It already is a difficult book to meander through because there is so much literal and figurative language used, but Joe was able to make sense out of a lot of hard to comprehend passages. One questions he posed, which was a good one was this: in Rev. 3:20 when it says " Behold! I stand at the door and knock.." he asked "Did you ever wonder why God was on the outside of the door in the first place?
Interesting. I had never stopped to think about that reference, but looking at the passage a bit more closely today, the reason why he was outside for that church is because they were separated from Him. John makes reference to it earlier when he says " shameful nakedness" the same thing God said about Adam and Eve in Genesis after the fall. Because of their sin, they had separated themselves from him. In the same way, this church had separated themselves from him by their pride and arrogance, thinking they are rich and independence, when they really were poor in spirit. It is something to think about this week.
Is Jesus on the outside of the door, when he should be on the inside?
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