The door: shut in or shut out?

“I am the door!” Jesus in John 10

This week the rain begins! Noah is done with his giant boat according to God's plans – the door (the ONLY door) is closed by God so Noah and family are shut in and the mocking world is shut out. Sunday we will look at the day of judgment and the door of grace. I want to show you that God's judgment and grace is historical, universal and sometimes sudden. Everyone in Noah's day assumed that a day of reckoning would never come or that they had plenty of time to prepare and make changes. This was a mistake on both counts! How can we be ready? How are we lulled into a false hope of time and opportunity?

God's advice: Plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark.

The world around Noah had abused home and marriage, exhausted God's patience, followed corrupt leaders and pursued sin without thought or fear of consequence – sound all too familiar? God has promised He will not flood us again but do not think that man is beyond the justice of God – that day is coming! Make sure you are on the right side of the door!

“There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.” Thomas Aquinas