Knock, Knock-!

JESUS IS KNOCKING ~ At the Door of your Heart’s Conscience-!

“Here I am! I stand at the Door and Knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the Door,

I will come in and eat with him, and he with me” (Rev. 3:20)

Knock, Knock-! Who’s there-? Jesus-! Jesus, who-? JESUS CHRIST ~ Open the God - *#@! - Door-! Jesus is constantly knocking at our door, not because He has to, but because He can’t stop loving us. His gentle yet persistent knock is a Sign of His love and desire for us. The Apostle Paul opened the door, and he was “caught up” or raptured into Heaven as a New Man. Paul returned to Earth to tell us about it: “I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the Third Heaven” (2 Cor. 12:2). The ‘third heaven’ here refers to the highest level of heaven, the dwelling place of God. It symbolizes the ultimate spiritual destination, where one can experience God’s presence right now. What if there was a Way to escape Time and Space, to enter the Door of Heaven right now before you physically die? Would you open this Door of your Conscious Mind if you heard God knocking? Paul did. Christ continues to knock at the Door of our Heart's Consciousness, but we are too self-satisfied with our world to listen to His voice. God is not a distant figure, but a loving presence, seeking a personal relationship with you.

God created Adam and Eve with eternal light-glorified bodies, similar to Jesus’ resurrection body. They lived in the present moment (no past or future time), with a holy Body and a sinless/ guiltless Mind, in the Garden of Eden. They could only see with God’s Eyes (Mind) - that everything God created was Very Good. However, after they ate the forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, their human Eyes were opened to see their guilty consciences. This act of disobedience (eating the forbidden fruit) introduced sin into the world and caused them to fall from God’s presence into a Mind that could only focus on Good and Evil. Their Minds were now locked into Time (thinking only about their past guilt and their future fear), and their Spirits were now locked into the Space of their body’s physical desires.

The Crucifixion of Christ is about freeing our Conscious Mind from the knowledge of Good and Evil (Sin), locked into our body’s Space and Time in our Mind. To be locked into Space is to be entirely ruled by your five (5) senses because wherever you go, your world is - the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the boastful pride of life (1 Jn. 2:16-18). To be locked into Time means that our rational thinking mind can only function in Time, where we create a complete false identity (Ego). SIN has caused us to have a Mind filled with Good and Evil instead of seeing the world through God’s eyes as Very, Very Good. The Apostle Paul asked, “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!” (Rom. 7:24-25).

Our Father, God, is not a vengeful, evil, monster in heaven who demanded a blood revenge killing of his son to pay a ransom to Satan to set us free. Religion killed Jesus, but Jesus freely and selflessly gave his life and blood to cleanse our heart’s conscience (Jn. 10:18). Just as physical life is in the blood of animals (Lev. 17:14), eternal life is in the blood of Christ (Jn. 6:53-55). When the last drop of Jesus’ holy blood left his body, his Spirit was freed to leave his body and resurrect to Heaven with all who believe in Him. Only the Blood of Christ on the Cross can cleanse us, free us, and save us. By Jesus’ Blood alone, we have our consciences cleansed, and we are forgiven and freed from sin’s power so that we can be right with God. This cleansing empowers us and motivates us to live a life of righteousness and service: “How much more, then, will the BLOOD of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, Cleanse our CONSCIENCES from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!” (Heb. 9:14).

Jesus did not incarnate into a human on Earth to start a new religion called Christianity so that his followers would idolize and worship his image. God forbids idolatry: “Do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a Man or a Woman” (Deut. 4:16). Jesus said, “For it is written, ‘You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve’ ” (Matt. 4:10). Jesus came to cleanse our consciences so that we can Put-On the Mind of Christ, and be the “sons and daughters of GOD” on Earth: “For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed” (Rom. 8:19). Paul tells us to “Put-Off the Old Man, Renew the Spirit of our Mind, and Put-On the New Man who was created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness” (Eph. 4:22-24).

God lives in us. The phrase “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27) refers to our New Identity. The transformative power of the Holy Spirit living within us, has changed us from the inside out. We do not become “gods” (as some Eastern religions preach), but we are God’s Children: “We have the Mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:16). The ‘Mind of Christ’ refers to the mindset and perspective that Jesus had, which was aligned with God's will and saw everything as Very Good. Our actual SIN is choosing to use our fallen Mind, which sees everything as good or evil, instead of using the Mind of Christ which sees everything that God created as Very, Very, Very Good. Will you open your God-'Heaven’- door?

 “Let this MIND be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God,

did not consider it robbery to be equal with God” (Phil. 2:5-6)