#4.5 | The Pilgrims Digress: Ch. 4

Zach and Mr. Sagacity discuss the first few rooms of the Interpreter's house and last-ditch efforts of the enemy at the gate,.

 

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If we claim to have sin, vs. if we confess our sin:

1 John 1:8-9   If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.  9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

 

Even if Spoken to, Christian offered no reply:

Luke 10:4  Carry no moneybag, no knapsack, no sandals, and greet no one on the road.

(Also connects to Faithful leaving with no bag, purse, sword, etc.)

 

Knock and the Door will be Opened:

Matthew 7:7-8  "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.  8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

 

“I am going to Mt. Zion:”

Psalm 2:6  As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill."

 

Psalm 48:1-3  Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain,  2 beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.  

(vs. the worldly fortress/citadel that Beelzebub maintains)

 

Hebrews 12:22-24  But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,  23 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,  24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

 

God is willing with all his heart that the gate be opened to contrite sinners:

Psalm 51:17   The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

 

Good-Will pulling Christian through the gate to avoid arrows:

Jeremiah 31:2-3   Thus says the LORD: "The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest,  3 the LORD appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

 

John 6:44  No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

“I Rejoice and tremble”

Psalm 2:11-12   Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.  12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

 

“An open door is set before you, which no man can shut.”

Revelation 3:8  "'I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

 

Those who enter here are never cast out:

John 6:37   All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

 

Discern the strait road from the many false ways:

Matthew 7:13-14   "Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.  14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

 

 

The Interpreter as a picture of the ministry of the Holy Spirit:

John 14:26   But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

 

John 15:26   "But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

 

John 16:13-14   When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.  14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

 

 

“I will show you things beneficial:”

Matthew 13:10-11  Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"  11 And he answered them, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

 

1 John 2:20, 27   But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge . . .   But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie--just as it has taught you, abide in him.

 

The Interpreter’s man lights a candle (illumination):

Psalm 119:105  Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.