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KINGDOM GATES,Psalm 24,Part 2,

AUTHOR GUARDIAN (Gatekeeper)

KINGDOM GATES

LIFT UP YOUR HEADS OPEN THE GATES

Ancient doors open up for the King Of Glory

The people outside the Temple Gates would call out for the Temple gates to be opened .. .

From inside the Temple the people would cry out.." WHO IS THE KING OF GLORY " .

From outside the Temple Gates the people would cry out " THE LORD STRONG AND MIGHTY, THE LORD MIGHTY IN BATTLE " .

The people would cry out over and over again.. .

THEN the Temple Gates would swing open .

This is was the tradition at this time .

Let us come to Jesus and cry out that the gates of our temples would be flung open and that the King of Glory would enter into every area of our lifes .

His Story

Its History and its His Story, its all about Him and History,

Psalm 24:7...open up ancient gates (JOB 38:10 when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place, )and whole chapter

We Yield to Him, as creation yields to Him, as the Temple doors had to open and death itself had and has to give up and Hell trembles and heavens doors open wide

Behold He stands at the door and knocks, who will open?

But do not be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord... 2Chronicles 30:8

Yielding is seen as as weakness in this society, but yielding to Jesus is strength to those who know Him, it is about complete trust

Lift up your heads you gates of bronze , you gates of iron yield

"WHO IS THIS KING OF GLORY ?

"

" THE LORD OF HEAVENS ARMIES , HE IS THE KING OF GLORY "

BEHOLD HE STANDS AT THE DOOR AND KNOCKS AT YOUR HEART

BEHOLD HE ENTERS IN

BEHOLD THE TEMPLE HOLDS HIS SHEKINAH GLORY

WE SURRENDER TO HIS WILL, WE YIELD..............

OUTSIDE THE CITY GATES

City Gates

"And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull" (Matthew 27:33) .

Jesus was led to a hill outside of the city, a place set apart for the dead...a place separated for the " unclean "

But we do not call "unclean " those that God has made "clean "

Neither do we put on display a cup thats looks clean on the outside but is dirty within

Only Jesus can make us clean on the inside so that we can put away religious signs of outside

purity but inside filth

We are separated , made Holy, Made clean, the separated ones

We walk the hill and are the set apart ones, although anyone can be set apart,

We surrender to Him, we the "Abrahams of faith" put down and surrender all to Him ,

He surrendered all

THE HILL

The Rock was Struck

The Rod struck the Rock who was Christ And from this Rock flowed and flows streams of living waters And He leads us beside those still waters With His rod and staff not in anger, as those who struck the Rock But He leads us and directs us as those who never struck Him

And the word became flesh and dwelt amongst us .

And now the word comes to flesh and dwells in us)

Proverbs 25:27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for

men to search their own glory is not glory. .

The word that has more to be desired than gold , more valuable than precious rubies, more

costly than the finest of stones, more beautiful than the emeralds that shine , more to be

desired are the words of God, for the treasure of earth is in heaven and to find the treasure

is to find God...) Psalms 119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste!

yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! .

As we lick at the honey ( The Word Of God ) we find sweetness in lifes bitter waters, as

Moses broke the branch at the bitter waters of Marah to make the waters drinkable and to find purification for the body.

Proverbs 27:7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter

thing is sweet. .

(And so we sit by the waters with Jesus and we eat the fish and the honeycomb bringing sweetness by the bitter waters of the sea) .

Luke 24:42-43 (King James Version) 42And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.

43And he took it, and did eat before them.

THE ROCK

The Riddle

Could God form a rock so large He would be unable to move it ? .

What is the answer to this riddle ? .

What a paradox, what is the answer? .

Nothing is impossible with God .

There is nothing He cannot do .

All things are possible and nothing is impossible .

1.

And yet there are some things that Are Impossible for God !! .

God cannot lie, it is impossible for God to lie .

2. And there are some things that God will not do !! .

He will not force you to love Him .

The Paradox Of God .

Herein lies the answer to the riddle of the Rock .

He can make a rock that is soo big He cannot move it.....but

He won't.. .

Herein lies true exercising of power...the Power Of God .

Instead we have the Rock that He will not move who is " Christ " .

CRUCIFY HIM

Crucifixion

Jesus summarizes the entirety of God's law in two simple commands: love God, and love your

neighbor.

Love for our neighbor should flow naturally out of our love for God.

Matthew 22:37-40 (New International Version)

37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38This is the first and greatest commandment.

39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

Love....the word love has so many meanings to so many people, We can say " I love you" and yet with the same breathe a few years down the line we can say something quite different.

The people exclaimed " Hail King Jesus" as He rode into Jerusalem and put down their cloaks

and waved palm branches andn yet with the same breathe a while later shouted " CRUCIFY HIM "

Ooo the heart of man, how wicked those that put the Son on the Cross, O too imagine that those whom, put Him on the Cross with the same breathe would announce Him

" Lord of Lords

and King of Kings In their own lifes ..as He calls them into His family and makes them joint

heirs to reign with Him in Eternity"

"Love " can we really love as God loves ?

we whom vow to love and to cherish til death us do part as we calculate our benefits and our inherited lot from the partnerships we form with others

?

Do we really love our enemies ?

do we even love the closest to us ?

Do we even know what love is ?

No one can know the true love of God ...for the true real love of God will be known when we

see Him face to face and we are melted by His Love and we tremble at His prescence, when we

fall down and cry out to Him who sits on the throne and we feel that love fill every part of our being.

Let love be your greatest aim, ask God for the gift of love, for love that is of God is far greater