"Lift up your heads you gates,and be lifted up, you age abiding doors, and The King of Glory shall come in! Who is The King of Glory? The LORD Who is strong and mighty, The LORD Who Is mighty in battle. He is THE KING OF GLORY!"
What does it mean to be "age abiding"? Could it be that there are some things in this life that are unchangeable, fixed, immoveable? Then, let us say that to be age-abiding carries with it the ability to be fixed because of the weight or attachment to the Person Christ Jesus. So we know that all things work together for good........, therefore, beloved of The LORD, "be stedfast, immoveable, always abounding in the work of the LORD." And that "work" is simply to believe on the One whom Our Father God has sent--The LORD, Jesus Christ.
To be age-abiding means that we are connected to the eternal realm. That connection comes through our believing on the work that Christ Jesus wrought for us on the cross. In Ephesians 2: 1-7 we discover this truth:
1"And you [He made alive], when you were dead (slain) by [your] trespasses and sins
2 In which at one time you walked [habitually]. You were following the course and fashion of this world [were under the sway of the tendency of this present age], following the prince of the power of the air. [You were obedient to and under the control of] the [demon] spirit that still constantly works in the sons of disobedience [the careless, the rebellious, and the unbelieving, who go against the purposes of God].
3 Among these we as well as you once lived and conducted ourselves in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by our corrupt and sensual nature], obeying the impulses of the flesh and the thoughts of the mind [our cravings dictated by our senses and our dark imaginings]. We were then by nature children of [God’s] wrath and heirs of [His] indignation, like the rest of mankind.
4 But God—so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us,
5 Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved ([a]delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation).
6 And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together [giving us [b]joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
7 He did this that He might clearly demonstrate through the ages to come the immeasurable (limitless, surpassing) riches of His free grace (His unmerited favor) in [His] kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ Jesus."
So we, in Christ Jesus, attain being ageless or age-abiding. Let us delve a little deeper to reveal greater truth. In the 10th Chapter of John, The Word Himself testifies, "I AM THE DOOR"!
7 "So Jesus said again, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that I Myself am the Door [a]for the sheep.
8 All others who came [as such] before Me are thieves and robbers, but the [true] sheep did not listen to and obey them.
9 I am the Door; anyone who enters in through Me will be saved (will live). He will come in and he will go out [freely], and will find pasture.
As we fulfill our God-given assignment to be witnesses, bearing truth, vessels of hope and age-abiding doors in the earth, revealing heavenly reality and His light, we are to lead many to right standing with The LORD Jesus and The Father.
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