ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For WEDNESDAY, 8TH MARCH, 2023.
Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer
Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l
Topic: LIFT UP YOUR HEADS, O YE GATES!!!
MEMORIZE: "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." Revelation 3:20.
SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 24:7-10.
“Lift up your heads, O ye gates and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in 8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle 9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates even lift them up, ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in 10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory.”
EXPOSITION:
This is a prophecy about Messiah. Who will die and enter into grave to challenge death and hell and thereby have victory over them. By His victory, he sets the captives (all the righteous who had died from Abel till the time Jesus died on the Cross) free. After His resurrection, He declared His victory over death and make public disgrace of the devil and the power of sin that held men captives since the fall of Adam.
As a result of his victory, the doors of unbroken relationship with God the Father was commanded to open that the King of glory (our Redeemer) may come in. He came to restore us back to the Father. He said, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne." Revelation 3:20-21. What a great and unequal promise from the Faithful and True.
This Psalm 24 may be taken as a poetical figure designed to represent the subject more affectingly. God, in his word and ordinances, is thus to be welcomed by us,
1. With great readiness: the doors and gates must be thrown open to him. Let the word of the Lord come into the innermost and uppermost place in our souls and, if we had 600 necks, we should bow them all to the authority of it
2. With all reverence, remembering how great a God he is with whom we have to do, in all our approaches to him.
THE LOVE OF CHRIST TO SINNERS
[1] Christ is graciously pleased by his word and Spirit to come to the door of the heart of sinners he draws near to them in a way of mercy, ready to make them a kind visit.
[2] He finds this door shut against him. The heart of man is by nature shut up against Christ by ignorance, unbelief, sinful prejudices
[3] When he finds the heart shut, he does not immediately withdraw, but he waits to be gracious, even till his head be filled with the dew
[4] He uses all proper means to awaken sinners, and to cause them to open to him: he calls by his word, he knocks by the impulses of his Spirit upon their conscience
[5] Those who open to him shall enjoy his presence, to their great comfort and advantage. He will sup with them he will accept of what is good in them he will eat his pleasant fruit and he will bring the best part of the entertainment with him. If what he finds would make but a poor feast, what he brings will make up the deficiency: he will give fresh supplies of graces and comforts, and thereby stir up fresh actings of faith, and love, and delight and in all this Christ and his repenting people will enjoy pleasant communion with each other. Alas! what do careless obstinate sinners lose by refusing to open the door of the heart to Christ!
PRAYER POINT: Lord, let the door of the hearts of sinners be open unto your gospel and let them receive you with joy in Jesus name.
DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – Judges 4 - 6.
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