1234 knocking at my door6/12/2023 However, a wild party leaves him disgusted with both himself and his world and he returns to the girl in the early morning hours. walks out on the girl and attempts to resume his former life. Following an invigorating day in the country with one of his buddies, J.R.'s high spirits are deflated when the girl tells him that she was once attacked and raped by a former boyfriend. As their relationship deepens, the girl offers herself to J.R. Scott Fitzgerald, lives alone, and doesn't own a television set. Rarely straying beyond the limits of his neighborhood, he spends his time drinking with his buddies, playing cards, and horsin' around with "broads" until the time when he will marry a "nice girl." Then, while riding on the Staten Island ferry, he meets and falls in love with a young girl unlike anyone he has ever known. grew up in New York's "Little Italy" under the dual influence of a rigid Catholic upbringing and the tough law-of- the-jungle rule of the city streets. THIS IS WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO REACT TO HIS VOICE TODAY - TOMMOROW MAY BE TO LATE.J.R. JESUS MARKED THEM AS PEOPLE WHO HAVING EARS, HEAR NOT, EYES YET THEY DO NOT SEE. MULITITUDES IN JESUS’ DAY WERE GUILTY OF DOING THIS. MY FRIEND I BELIEVE IF I HAD NOT GOTTEN SAVED WHEN I DID – THERE WOULD BE NO HOPE FOR ME TODAY!ĪND I WANT TO WARN YOU THAT ARE HERE THIS MORNING AND THE SAVIOR HAS MANY TIMES KNOCKED ON THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART AND YOU HAVE TURNED A DEAR EAR.ĭON’T DO THAT! - LISTEN, EVERY TIME JESUS KNOCKS AND YOU DO NOT LISTEN, YOU ENTER INTO AN ADVANCED STATE OF CALOUSNESS UNTIL SOONER OR LATER, YOU WILL NEVER AGAIN HEAR THE KNOCKING HAND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN YOUR LIFE. BUT I WANT TO THANK GOD FOR HIS GENTLE PERSISTENT KNOCK AT MY HEARTS DOOR!.MEN OF GOD I TALKED TO, NOT WANTING TO ADMIT I WAS LOST.PREACHING TAPES I LISTENED TO WITH A NERVOUS HEART.CHURCH SERVICES I SAT THROUGH WITH SWEATY HANDS.I REMEMBER AS A LOST BOY MANY YEARS AGO HOW JESUS PERSISTENTLY KNOCKED ON MY HEARTS DOOR. WHATEVER THE CASE, JESUS STANDS THERE PERSISTENTLY KNOCKING AT YOUR DOOR.I BELIEVE GOD, WHO MADE MAN’S HEART FOR HIMSELF AND WHO SEES FROM THE BEGINING TO THE END, KNOWS OF THE TRAGEDY THAT WILL FOLLOW WHEN A MAN, WOMAN, BOY OR GIRL CLOSES THEIR HEARTS DOOR AND WILL NOT LET HIM IN.īUT BECAUSE OF HIS GREAT LOVE FOR YOU THIS MORNING, JESUS STANDS THERE PATIENTLY WAITING, EVER SO GENTLY KNOCKING AT YOUR DOOR! WHY WON’T YOU LET HIM COME IN? THERE IS NOT A DAY THAT GOES BY THAT THE SAVIOR DOES NOT KNOCK. LET ME SAY AS WE GET INTO THE MESSAGE TODAY, JESUS IS STILL KNOCKING AT THE HEARTS OF THE LOST AND THOSE WHO ARE OFF INTO A LIFE OF SIN.īEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK. * THE CRUCIFIED KNOCKING ON THE DOOR OF THOSE WHO CRUCIFIED HIM.ĭEAR FRIEND IN ALL THE WORLD, THERE IS NOT A MORE BEAUTIFUL PICTURE THAN THIS OF THE LORD JESUS KNOCKING AT THE HEARTS DOOR. * THE LOVING KNOCKING ON THE DOOR OF THE SELFISH AND HATEFUL. * THE ALMIGHTY KNOCKING ON THE DOOR OF THE FRAIL. * THE INFINITE KNOCKING ON THE DOOR OF THE FINITE. * THE CREATOR KNOCKING ON THE DOOR OF THE CREATED. HUNT SAID "THIS DOOR ONLY HAS A HANDLE ON THE INSIDE AND YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN OPEN IT.ĪS I PREPARED THIS MESSAGE, I THOUGHT WHAT A MARVELOUS PICTURE THIS IS. SOMEONE CAME BY AND SAID " SIR YOU FORGOT TO PUT A HANDLE ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE DOOR." MR. YEARS AGO A MAN BY THE NAME OF HOLMAN HUNT PAINTED THIS PICTURE ON A PIECE OF CANVAS - JESUS STANDING THERE KNOCKING AT THE DOOR. 3:20 I BELIEVE PAINTS A WONDERFUL PICTURE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST OUTSIDE THE HEARTS DOOR OF MANKIND - KNOCKING AND WANTING TO COME IN. AND JESUS HAS BEEN LEFT OUTSIDE THE CHURCH.īUT THEN THERE IS ANOTHER APPLICATION I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS MORNING.WE SEE THIS TODAY IN MANY OF THE CHURCHES ACROSS AMERICA - EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT GOD AND DOING GOOD, BUT THEY NEVER MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT – HERE WE FIND THE CHURCHES MAIN PROBLEM, JESUS WAS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE CHURCH AND WAS NOT WELCOMED IN. IN V.16 HE SAYS "I WILL SPUE THEE OUT OF MY MOUTH." IF YOU WAS TO STUDY THIS TEXT YOU WOULD FIND THAT JESUS SPOKE NO GOOD WORDS TO THIS CHURCH, ONLY WORDS OF REBUKE AND CONDEMNATION. THIS CHURCHES PROBLEM WAS THAT OF COMPROMISE, IT WASN’T HOT OR COLD, IT WAS JUST LUKE WARM. 3:14 LAODECIA = WAS A LUKE-WARM CHURCHĪND HERE IN 3:14 - 20 WE FIND JESUS SPEAKING TO THE CHURCH OF LAODECIA. 3:1 SARDIS = WAS A DEAD CHURCH, LIKE THE MODERN DAY BAPTISTħ. 2:18 THYATIRA = WORLDLY CHURCH – ALLOWED IMMORALITYĥ. 2:12 PERGAMOS = DEFILED CHURCH – ALLOWED FALSE DOCTRINEĤ. 2:1 EPHESUS = DEPARTED, THEY HAD LEFT THEIR FIRST LOVE!ģ. JESUS HERE IN HIS LETTERS TO THE 7 CHURCHES OF ASIA, SPEAKS TO EACH OF THEM AND WITH EACH CHURCH, HE ADDRESSES A PARTICULAR PROBLEM.ġ.
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