"...One door and only one and yet the sides are two. I'm on the inside, which side are you?..." is part of a song that we used to sing in children's church. The song is filled with such an elementary truth that we as humans choose to ignore. There is only One Way to be redeemed, to be in the relationship with our Creator for which He designed us to be in with Him.
Our Heavenly Father has given us several object lessons beautifully illustrating His design to purchase us back. The first slaying of an animal to cover Adam and Eve after their first sin, disobedience to God. (Genesis 2 & 3)
How about Cain and Abel? (Genesis 4) Abel brought the one and only sacrifice that God had commanded and would accept. Abel was found right with God because he obeyed, but his brother Cain chose to come with the sacrifice that he wanted to bring and was rejected by God because he disobeyed.
The history of Noah and the ark. (Genesis 6-8) His diligent following of God's command to build the ark enabled him and his family to survive the flood. In order for them to be saved from the flood, they had to enter the only door to the ark. Those who refused to enter this door perished.
Continually, our Heavenly Father orchestrates history (His story) to bring us to Him, to give us visual lessons telling us His design. When the Israelites painted their door posts with the lamb's blood for the passover, they were spared the death of their firstborn because they obeyed God's command. (Exodus 11 & 12)
Christ laying down His life on the cross and His resurrection is the Sacrifice that God had been pointing to with all of these (and so many more) beautifully vivid descriptions in His Word. (John 14:6) As the book of Hebrews outlines, Jesus is the Way and the perfect sacrifice, the new covenant, the Holy Priesthood...
In my study and meditation of the book of Jeremiah, I saw this truth yet again. (Jeremiah 21) The LORD says that He is going to allow Babylon to conqueror the Israelites. King Zedekiah sends a messenger to Jeremiah to ask him to ask God to have mercy on them. Instead of granting this request, God tells them to defect to Babylon because He would not spare them. Babylon's captivity would bring more mercy than He would give them. Those who refused to defect would be diseased, killed, and find NO mercy. God was punishing those who did not obey. Their disobedience showed their rejection of Him, the reason He was pronouncing destruction on them in the first place.
Have you accepted Christ as your personal Savior? He is the ONE and ONLY WAY to eternal life, to NOT being separated from God, our Creator, for all of eternity! If you reject Him and do not come in the ONE and ONLY WAY that He has provided, He will reject you. You will be eternally separated from Him. (Romans 3:23; 6:23; Romans 5:8; I John 1:9; Romans 10:13...)
For the Furtherance of His kingdom!
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