I am the door

Original Date: 1/26/2009

So, I am still on spiritual ephedra from this weekend (Kingdom Business Conference). Woot! Anyways, God gave me some new stuff I wanted to share:

1. Jesus said He is the door - John 10:9 says "I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture" So, we all know that... but the question is... what exactly is Jesus the doorway to?

2. Of course, He is the salvation of the world but God showed me something more specific. The doorway itself represents salvation. However, the doorway leads you into something else. When you walk through the door of salvation, what is God leading you into?

3. God is leading you into the realm of the Spirit. Salvation was not just so that we would enter heaven but enter into the Spirit of God. The plan was that we would walk out of the earthly realm, through the door, and into the Spirit.

4. Paul talks about believers resisting the spirit. That would be like us closing the door that Jesus just opened to us.

5. The pasture in this verse points us back to the creation. In Genesis, when God created the earth, it was formless and void. It wasn't until the Spirit hovered over the earth and initiated by the word of God that the chaos was turned into order.

6. The Spirit turned a chaotic and desolate place into a place of life, beauty, and symmetry. When we walk through the Door of Jesus into the place of the Spirit, the Spirit can then turn our chaos into His order.

7. However, like a door, we can step in and out of this redemptive work. What is more amazing is that we not only walk in the Spirit, but the Spirit also can dwell in us.

8. One last thing is that I used to think that once you became a Christian that you were filled with the Holy Spirit. That is not what scripture says. Acts 8:16 says: "For He (the holy spirit) had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. [There again, Jesus being the door]. Then they began laying their hands on them, and they were receiving the Holy Spirit."