DECISIONS AT THE DOOR

REVELATION 3:20

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

Probably one of the most famous “at the door” passages is the one we read as our text. But there are a few others that mention that someone, or something, is at the door.

 

I. SIN MAY BE AT THE DOOR [Gen. 4:7]

1. When You Want God to Accept Your Way while You Refuse His [4:3-7]

2. When You Embrace Evil and Attack Righteousness [1 John 3:12, Isaiah 5:20]

-Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

-Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

3. Sin Lieth at the Door when You Ignore God’s Word [Heb. 11:4, Rm. 10:17; Jude 10-11]

-By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

-So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

-But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain,

 

II. THE JUDGE MAY BE AT THE DOOR [James 5:9]

1. The Judge Will - Punish Evil [v. 1-6]

2. The Judge Waits – but not for long [v. 7-9]

3. The Judge Watches – so be ready [v. 10ff]

 

III. THE LORD IS AT THE DOOR [REV. 3:20]

1. You Have a Condition [v. 14-17]

2. You Have a Choice [v. 18-20]

3. You Have a Chance [v. 20-22]