Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Referring back to the last few posts, how do we know that the voice at the door belongs to Jesus?

The only way to even become familiar with His voice is through His Word.

You will not recognize His voice in studying anything other than the Holy Bible.

When He knocks and you hear His voice, you still have to open the door to your heart and let Him in.

That is how it works.

Ecclesiastes 1:17 And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.

John 3:8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.

Genesis 4:7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, and you must rule over it.”

Then Cain killed his brother Abel.

Sin is a noun in Hebrew that originally meant crouching beast. Source Strong’s H2403

What I find interesting in God’s instruction to Cain is that God does not tell Cain to get rid of the beast but rather to get it under control.

Crouching beast is an attitude of being prepared to pounce. Think of this beast as a large dog, the crouch can be a posture of ready to play. But if someone were to knock at the door it would be in a defensive posture, keeping you from getting to the door to see who is knocking.

Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Note here just for the sake of argument that the dog doesn’t get fed if we let Jesus in.

The idea that sin is a crouching beast does not hold water. It is not a living thing that has the capacity to love whereas a dog does. Its desire for you only indicates our pleasure in playing with that crouching beast. It is our sin, we own it and it is up to us to decide if we love Jesus more than the sins we commit.

Jesus loves us, sin cannot.