DOORS WE OPEN

Bible Study by Pastor Janice L Williams

REVELATION 3:20 NKJV

20/ Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

BIBLE STUDY FOR WEDNESDAY, September 5th-12th-19th-26th-October 3rd-10th-17th, 2012

scriptures printed in red are words spoken by JESUS 

 OBEDIENCE TO GOD'S WORD OPENS DOORS TO GREAT AND MIGHTY PROMISED BLESSINGS OF GOD!!!

WILLINGNESS TO HEAR, RECEIVE AND OBEY GOD'S WORD, OPENS DOORS TO A NEW YOU CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS, WITH ENTITLEMENT TO ALL OF THE PROMISED BLESSINGS OF GOD;  REGARDLESS OF YOUR BIOLOGICAL AGE.

 WHEN YOU RECEIVE REVELATION KNOWLEDGE/LIGHT OF GOD, BY AND THROUGH HEARING HIS WORD

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THE DOORS OF HEAVENLY BLESSINGS OF PROSPERITY OPEN FOR YOU!

EVEN IN OLD AGE!

 PSALM 92:13, 14 NKJV

13/Those who are planted in the house of the Lord
Shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14/ They shall still bear fruit in old age;
They shall be fresh and flourishing,

2 CHRONICLES 20:20 NKJV

Believe in the LORD your God, and YOU SHALL BE ESTABLISHED; believe His prophets, and YOU SHALL PROSPER.”

REVIEW WEEKLY BIBLE STUDIES

#59 "GOD'S COVENANTS WITH MANKIND" THEN REVIEW #12 "I AM ROYALTY"

ACTS 3:25-26 NIV * 25/ And you {Jews} are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers.  He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.’ 26/ When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."

 GALATIANS 3:29 NKJV * 29/ And if you {all non-Jews/Gentiles} are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

 ROMANS 8:16-18 NKJV *16/ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17/ and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

 18/ For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

DEUTERONOMY 8:18-20 NKJV* 18/ "And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.  19/Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the LORD your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.  20/As the nations which the LORD destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.

NOW LET'S LOOK THROUGH DOORS WE OPEN INDIVIDUALLY AND NATIONWIDE FROM DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD; BY REVIEWING SOME BIBLICAL AND SOME HISTORICAL EXAMPLES OF THE PAST.  

 Genesis 2:16-17 NKJV * 16/ And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17/ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

Because of disobedience to Father God's WORD of instruction, Adam and Eve opened the door to evil; they produced their first son Cain who was a murderer, filled with envy and ungodly jealously.

 

DISOBEYING GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS SO COSTLY.  IT OPENS DOORS FOR SATIN TO KILL, STEAL, AND DESTROY, GREAT AND MIGHTY BLESSINGS OUR HEAVENLY FATHER HAS FOR US.

John 10:10 NKJV 

10/ The thief [Satin] does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I [JESUS] have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. 

Curses on Disobedience Deuteronomy 28:15-68 NKJV 15/“But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: 16/ “Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.¹⁷ “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18/ “Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.  19/ “Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.  20/ “The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me.  21/ The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess.  22/ The LORD will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with scorching, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.  And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron.  24/The LORD will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.  25/ “The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth.  26/ Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away.  27/ The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.  28/ The LORD will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of heart.  29/ And you shall grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you.  30/“You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not gather its grapes.  31/ Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them.  32/ Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be no strength in your hand.  33/ A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.  34/ So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see.  35/ The Lord will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.  36/ “The Lord will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods—wood and stone. 37/ And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the Lord will drive you.  38/ “You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.  39/ You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.  40/ You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.  40/ You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.  42/Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of your land.  43/ “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.  44/ He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.  45/ “Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.  46/ And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever. 47/“Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, 48/ therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.  49/ The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50/ a nation of fierce countenance, which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young.  51/ And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.  52/ “They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you.  53/ You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you.  54/ The sensitive and very refined man among you will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind, 55/so that he will not give any of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.  56/ The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity, will refuse to the husband of her bosom, and to her son and her daughter, 57/ her placenta which comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.  58/ “If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, 59/then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses.  60/ Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.  61/ Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the LORD bring upon you until you are destroyed.  62/ You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.  63/ And it shall be, that just as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess.  64/ “Then the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known—wood and stone.  65/ And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and anguish of soul.  66/ Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life.  67/ In the morning you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were morning!’ because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and because of the sight which your eyes see.  68/ “And the Lord will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, ‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

LET'S READ ABOUT THE PRICE KING SAUL PAID FOR DISOBEYING FATHER GOD, BY NOT FOLLOWING HIS INSTRUCTIONS. 

 1 SAMUEL 15:22, 23 NKJV 

22/ So Samuel said:  "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed [listen to God] than the fat of rams.  23/ For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,
He also has rejected you from being king.”

NOW LET'S READ ABOUT HOW KING SOLOMON BROUGHT DISFAVOR AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD AGAINST HIS IMMEDIATE DESCENDENTS AND FUTURE GENERATIONS OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL, BECAUSE OF HIS DISOBEDIENCE TO FOLLOW GOD'S INSTRUCTIONS.

EXODUS 20:5, 6 NKJV

 5/ you shall not bow down to them {other gods/idols} nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6/ but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

   1 KINGS 11:9-13 NKJV

9/ So the LORD became angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned from the LORD God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, 10/ and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the LORD had commanded.  11/ Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this, and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.  12/  Nevertheless I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.  13/ However I will not tear away the whole kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen.”

WE CHOOSE WHAT DOORS WE OPEN IN LIFE

When we open the door of our heart to invite JESUS to come into our lives to be our Lord and  Savior, we open the door to LIFE IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD WITH GOD.  That Kingdom Life or Spiritual Living, dwells inside of us by Jesus Christ who enables us to access it.

Jesus stated in John 14:6 NKJV, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

 SEE  "SALVATION PRAYER PAGE" 

MATTHEW 5:8 NKJV

BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART, FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD.

ALSO REVIEW WBS # 6 "BLOOD OF JESUS"

We enter into the Kingdom of God/Spiritual Life/Living,/ and the Kingdom of God/Spiritual Life/Living enters into us.  The scripture tells us in Romans 14:17 that "the Kingdom of God is righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit", and in Luke 17:21 Jesus stated, "The Kingdom of God is within you."

REVIEW WBS #2 "THE LORD'S PRAYER"

 LOOK FOR WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY "KEYS TO THE KINGDOM" COMING YOUR WAY SOON!

PSALM 122:1-9 KJV

1/ I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.

2/ Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.

3/Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:

4/ Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.

5/ For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.

6/ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

7/ Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.

8/ For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

9/ Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.

 PSALM 23:6

6/ Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

 REVELATION 21:1 THRU 5 KJV* 1/ AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH: FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED AWAY; AND THERE WAS NO MORE SEA. 2/ AND I JOHN SAW THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND. 3/ AND I HEARD A GREAT VOICE OUT OF HEAVEN SAYING, BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN, AND HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM, AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE, AND GOD HIMSELF SHALL BE WITH THEM, AND BE THEIR GOD. 4/ AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM THEIR EYES; AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH, NEITHER SORROW, NOR CRYING, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE ANYMORE PAIN: FOR THE FORMER THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY.  5/ AND HE THAT SAT UPON THE THRONE SAID, BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW.  AND HE SAID UNTO ME, WRITE: FOR THESE WORDS ARE TRUE AND FAITHFUL.