Word Keeper

Sermon from December 6, 2009

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I couldn’t find the songs for this sermon

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Having trouble with this audio. … I’ll work on it later.

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The door: doorway between the physical world and the spiritual world. We livbe in the physical world, but is there a spiritual world? A Heaven? A God? Life after Death? … If you have read the Narnia books, including the last one, then you may understand this slightly better. If you have not read the Narnia books, I recommend that you do. And unless you have read The Last Battle (or if you do not mind spoiler, highlight until the next set of tildes (~).

In the middle part of The Last Battle, the final book in the Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis, there is a door. One side of the door is in the wall of a small barn, a shack. When someone looks in from this side, that person (or animal or combo) sees pitch black disparity. The people on this side of the door believe that a horrible beast, Tash, is on the other side. For many, this is true, but for others, there is a vast green land with rolling hills and high mountains.  Aslan is there. King Peter and King Edmund and Queen Lucy are all there too. It is paradise for those who have made it there. … The ones who do not go there fair a little differently. Some are eaten by Tash, but many are still alive in the world they know. … For those who make it to the paradise, the door is there, in the middle of nowhere. No walls with it. No roof. Only the door in it’s door frame, just sitting there in a beautiful field. Open the door and see more lush, green land. … That door really is a doorway between physical and spiritual worlds. ~~~~~~~~~~~

Nobody knows what it’s like beyond the door by his/her own understanding, but we can know what is beyond the door because God has revealed Himself to us. God has revealed some what is beyond the door

Romans 1:20 – But the view we get is incomplete. It’s distorted a little. This physical world is like an image you might see in an inadequate mirror, a funny mirror at the circus. Everything is there, but it’s distorted.

Psalm 147:19-20 – Special revelation: God has disclosed Himself directly from behind the door. He has slipped notes under the door to the people of Israel. He even cracked the door open a little (Numbers 12).

Isaiah 40:5 – The door is going to open!

Luke 2:29-32 – The door has opened! And behind the door was a baby! This baby is Jesus. He did not stay behind the door, He came through the door!

Hebrews 1:1-13 – Christ is the exact representation of God. He is God in full revelation!

John 3:13 – When Jesus had grown up, He showed us more who God is. … He told Nicodemus that to get to Heaven we must be born again. Nicodemus did not unnderstand this so Jesus tod him His credentials: He is the only to have come from Heaven.

1 Corinthians 1: 7 – The door will open again someday! We wait in Faith.

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So, I drew some picture notes for this sermon, but haven’t drawn them on the computer yet. There’s seven of these pictures, all have a door in a door frame:

The first one is a closed door.

In the second image, the is slightly cracked open.

There’s a crib in the doorway with the door wide open in the third image. This is Jesus.

The fourth picture has a cross in the doorway.

The fifth has a man in the doorway. This man is the resurrected Christ.

In the sixth picture, the door is closed again.

In the seventh image, there is that man again. This time He has his sword. He is ready for combat against evil. It is Christ’s second coming.

Jason religion, Sunday Sermon