5/18/2023 0 Comments Hear you knocking at my door![]() It was just as the Lord Jesus said: “ And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which said, By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive. When the Lord Jesus knocked on their door, they closed their hearts off to the Lord. Between the salvation of the Lord Jesus and the slanderous words said by the Pharisees, they chose to listen to the falsehoods and outright lies of the Pharisees, and rejected the way preached by the Lord Jesus. When the Pharisees were spreading rumors and slander and condemning the Lord Jesus, they were just being blindly obedient without any discernment at all. ![]() Most Jewish people believed that the Lord Jesus should have been born in a palace, and that He would be their king and would lead them to throw off Roman rule. In the end, they colluded with the Roman government to crucify Him. They even went as far as to blaspheme against the Lord Jesus and say that He relied on Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons, to cast out demons. They used these judgments to deny and condemn the Lord Jesus. They also made arbitrary judgments and said that the Lord Jesus was the son of a carpenter and was just a completely ordinary person. When they saw that Mary had a husband, they concluded that the Lord Jesus was not the immaculate conception of the Holy Spirit, and that He was not born of a virgin. They did not seek or investigate the work of the Lord Jesus, but instead just clung blindly to the words of the biblical prophecies, believing that the one who was to come would be called Emmanuel or Messiah, and would be born of a virgin. The Jewish priests, scribes and Pharisees at the time knew clearly that the words spoken by the Lord Jesus and the miracles He performed all came from God, but they did not at all have hearts that revered God. It may be said that the Jewish people at that time had already heard the sound of the Lord Jesus knocking on the door, but how did they treat the Lord? They manifested the authority and power of God and caused men’s hearts to quake. The words spoken by the Lord Jesus and the things He did revealed the disposition of God and what God has and is. The words the Lord Jesus used to teach people and the words He used to rebuke the Pharisees were the truth and were not words we human beings are capable of uttering. ![]() Whatever the Lord Jesus spoke was accomplished and fulfilled, and this allows us to see the authority and power in the Lord’s word. With a single word, the Lord Jesus was also able to calm the wind and the sea, as well as to cause Lazarus to emerge from his tomb after being dead for four days…. They also noticed the authority and power in the word of the Lord, such that the Lord Jesus was able to feed 5,000 people with five loaves and two fish. At the time, many Jewish people witnessed the miracles performed by the Lord Jesus. In so doing, their sins will be absolved, and man will break free from the curse and condemnation of the law and be redeemed by God. The Lord hopes that people will come before Him to repent and confess their sins. The Lord Jesus said: “ Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17). His name also caused a great stir in all the Jewish lands and, for the people of that time, the Lord Jesus leading His disciples to preach the gospel of the heavenly kingdom wherever they went was the Lord knocking at their door. ![]() When the Lord Jesus came to do the work of redemption in the Age of Grace, news of the miracles wrought by the Lord and the word of the Lord spread throughout the land of Judea.
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