Behold, I Stand At The Door And Knock

                                        Rev 3:20 ASV - 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.   When Jesus was walking this earth and reveling his father to the people ,   He told the people it is the father in me he is doing the works , the words that I speak it is his words that I am speaking .     Jhn 10:25 ASV - Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believe not: the works that I do in my Father's name, these bear witness of me.  And what is the Witness    Report (Noun and Verb):    Greek: martureo  Martyr         "to be a witness, bear witness, testify," signifies, in the Passive Voice, "to be well testified of, to have a good report," Act 6:3, "of good (AV, honest) report," lit., "being well testified of;" 10:22; 16:2; 22:12; 1Ti 5:10; in Hbr 11:2, 39, AV, "obtained a good report" (RV, "had witness borne to them"); in 3Jo 1:12, AV, "hath good report" (RV, "hath the witness"), lit., "witness hath been borne."
Martyr =  a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs.    All the apostles and  many believers in that day died as a martyr for the precious truth of eternal life through Christ Jesus .   And the people that were against the word they spoke of salvation through God son was the religious church .  Religion today is still that obstacle an enemy of the cross to prevent people from knowing the  truth .  And satan uses people just like he did Eve to pervert that truth , God said let there be light and there was light .  God said these are my commandants for today obey them and live .  Jesus was the fulfilling of the old Law he fulfilled all the ordinances of the Law .                         Ordinances  Decree Greek: dogma     an "opinion expressed with authority, a doctrine, ordinance, decree;" "decree," Luk 2:1; Act 16:4; 17:7; in the sense of ordinances, Eph 2:15; Col 2:14.
 Col 2:14 ASV - having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out that way, nailing it to the cross;                             Rom 8:3 ASV - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 ASV - that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:5 ASV - For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.   
Friends it is all about the Cross our Cross !    Jesus said to every one of his disciples Come follow me some did and others did not .   Where do we follow Jesus to where is he going .
Jhn 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.    And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.    And whither I go, ye know the way.      Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; how know we the way?    Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me .    His Death burial and his resurrection
If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also: from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.  Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.                          Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou, Show us the Father?                         Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works.
  2Co 5:19 ASV - to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Col 2:8 ASV - Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:    Religion is an enemy of the cross it is what this verse describes above .  Religion brings all kinds of fleshly works and binds men up with fear and fear has torment.                Col 2:9 ASV - for in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,

Mar 7:9 ASV - And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.
Mar 7:13 ASV - making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.     Heb 4:2 ASV - For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.  Jesus said when he comes back to the earth again will he find faith on the earth.  Faith being things hope for things unseen it is the substance of our life's.     Heb 1:1 ASV - God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners,
Heb 1:2 ASV - hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds;
Heb 1:3 ASV - who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
 There is only one gospel one truth  Jesus spoke the Gospel of his father he said he was anointed to preach this gospel .    Luk 4:18 ASV - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,    
1Co 2:2 ASV - For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Gal 2:20 ASV - I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Gal 5:24 ASV - And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.
Gal 6:14 ASV - But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
Heb 11:7 ASV - By faith Noah, being warned of God concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Phl 3:8 ASV - Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,
Phl 3:9 ASV - and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:
Phl 3:10 ASV - that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;
Phl 3:11 ASV - if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.
Mat 19:28 ASV - And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that ye who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Mat 19:24 ASV - And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.   Now the word says that the LOVE of money .  Because money wealth and all it can buy in the flesh ,  the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes the pride of life and all that is in the world will perish . 
Mat 19:25 ASV - And when the disciples heard it, they were astonished exceedingly, saying, Who then can be saved?    We all need money to live in this world but Jesus was warning us as to who is your true God .                                                                                 Luk 16:10 ASV - He that is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much: and he that is unrighteous in a very little is unrighteous also in much.
Luk 16:11 ASV - If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
Luk 16:12 ASV - And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?
Luk 16:13 ASV - No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.   Mammon   Mammon:    Greek: mamonas
a common Aramaic word for "riches," akin to a Hebrew word signifying "to be firm, steadfast" (whence "Amen"), hence, "that which is to be trusted;" Gesenius regards it as derived from a Heb. word signifying "treasure" (Gen 43:23); it is personified in Mat 6:24; Luk 16:9, 11, 13.                                                                                                                         Luk 12:34 ASV - For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
 Mat 19:26 ASV - And Jesus looking upon them said to them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Mat 19:27 ASV - Then answered Peter and said unto him, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee; what then shall we have?
Mat 19:28 ASV - And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that ye who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Gen 1:26 ASV - And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.  The word Image in the Heb is a shadow of something to come .  
Gen 1:27 ASV - And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Jesus was the word of God made flesh ,  God is a spirit he has no body and Jesus said that and those that worship him must worship him in the same way spirit and in truth .     Jhn 4:24 ASV - God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.     The true God of this earth there are many gods but only one true creator .      You know God made man in his own image made he man , and when he said let us make man in our own image .            
 Isa 53:10 ASV - Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.                                                                                            In Exodus with the children God making a way for escape from the Egyptians ,   Egypt in that day is a type of our world today.   Bondage and hard labor captives to the world rulers .  What was the way of escape for the children of God .   They were called a small people by God , God can take the least of a situation and bring it to greatness .
Luk 13:25 ASV - When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us; and he shall answer and say to you, I know you not whence ye are;    The word whence is Who !    who you are , and who are we to be like in the end of this world ,  Not in the flesh in the spirit who are we to be in the likeness of when God comes back for his people .  This life we live today friend is spiritual when you die will your flesh stand before God .  No your soul will stand before the throne of Christ he will be our Judge it is called the bema seat or the footprint tribunal .     
2Co 5:10 ASV - For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Judgment-Seat:  Greek: bema
In two passages the word is used of the Divine tribunal before which all believers are hereafter to stand. In Rom 14:10 it is called "The judgment seat of God," RV (AV, "of Christ"), according to the most authentic mss. The same tribunal is called "the judgment seat of Christ," 2Cr 5:10, to whom the Father has given all judgment, Jhn 5:22, 27. At this bema believers are to be made manifest, that each may "receive the things done in (or through) the body," according to what he has done, "whether it be good or bad." There they will receive rewards for their faithfulness to the Lord. For all that has been contrary in their lives to His will they will suffer loss, 1Cr 3:15. This judgment seat is to be distinguished from the premillennial, earthly throne of Christ, Mat 25:31, and the postmillennial "Great White Throne," Rev 20:11, at which only "the dead" will appear. The judgment-seat of Christ will be a tribunal held "in His Parousia," i.e., His presence with His saints after His return to receive them to Himself.
Col 2:6 ASV - As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,   Foot print tribunal is to put your foot after  Christ is and to acknowledge him as you savior and you walk in his foot steps. You follow him .
Col 2:7 ASV - rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Rom 1:23 ASV - and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.   
Rom 8:29 ASV - For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:
Col 1:15 ASV - who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
Heb 1:3 ASV - who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
The word says Jesus was the first born among the dead ,   and we being dead in our trespasses were under the curse of Adam . Jesus was with the father before creation Jesus was the pattern for us to follow.    God told Moses to build after the pattern I showed you upon the mount .   Jesus said that Moses himself wrote of me prophecy in the making .  Moses saw God face to face the word says and he was a friend of God .   I believe Mose saw far into the distance of spiritual things just as the prophets did of old , the word says they were looking for the very thing in the future that they were writing of looking for that promise to come  . Jesus said Abraham saw my day and he was glad . John 8:56
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. The door is your heart you can let him in or you can keep him out ,  his knocking is his mercy to all mankind .  His voice is this very word I have been sharing with you , you hear him in his word . And as you began to obey his word he revels himself more and more ,  and the Lord speaks to us through his revelation of himself .   Paul called it the mystery of Godliness unto the gentile in these last days.      To sup with him is to have a close relationship with Jesus to go to you closet to get alone and seek his fellowship and wisdom.     Jesus said our works alone will not save us it is how we build our house , our firm foundation on the solid rock of his word .  The flesh will perish in time ,  but our soul will live for ever .    There is only one way to enter into his presents ,  to have him in your heart and be filled with his spirit his overflowing presence .   Ask him and he will give you his spirit , Just as Jesus told Nicodemus you must be born again of the water and of the spirit .