Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, April 28th. God invites you to know him.

Be encouraged as you listen and respond to Jesus, the seeking Savior.

I want you to listen to this message. It's a very, very important message. All of them are, but I want you to listen to this message.

It's a very, very important message.

All of them are, but I want you to listen carefully because there's a picture of Jesus here that's not found anywhere else in the Scripture.

And it's so comprehensive because it's about our relationship to him.

Here's the verse.

Look at this.

Beholds Jesus.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock.

If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,

I will come into him and will dine with him and he with me.

Here is a beautiful, beautiful, masterful picture

of Jesus. And so what I want us to do, I want us to see him in the five different perspectives

that he's mentioned here, and the first one is this. Here's what he says. He says,

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. So we see Jesus, first of all, standing.

What does that symbolize? His readiness. That is, he's ready to enter a life that's willing and ready for him to do it.

He says, Behold, I stand at the door and knock. Now, I want you to notice something here.

Who's taking the initiative? It is Jesus who takes the initiative in our salvation experience.

Many people say, well, you know, I just decided when I was at a certain age or when I was going through a certain situation.

I just decided I was going to be saved. No, you didn't. You responded. You responded to Christ who was knocking on the heart of your life.

So you are a responder. For example, the word reconciliation means that he took the reconciliation upon himself and he brought us to himself.

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