Let Christ Come Into Your Heart

Table of Contents 2004

This unscriptural phrase is one of the most common exhortations given by Evangelical Christians. I think we need to look at it once again.

Yesterday morning (8/08/2004) I preached to the Christian people: "let Christ come into your heart." We say this often, don’t we. But do you know, the Apostles did not preach this. The Apostle Paul did not say to the people of Ephesus, "Let Christ come into your heart."

This is strange, isn’t it? One of our most common expressions was not used as such by the Apostles of the Lamb.

I realize the substance of the concept, that the mystery of the Gospel is Christ in us, was taught by Paul. Yet this was never preached to the unsaved to my knowledge. But this is the first thing we say to the unsaved!

The fact is, I have pondered this discrepancy for several years. I think the Lord has called me to teach the Bible, not our traditions; so the fact that the Apostles did not go forth preaching "let Christ into your heart" has bothered me.

I’ll tell you what’s worse! I found myself saying this to people—it seemed so right.

Yesterday morning (Sunday) I was praying about what to bring to the people who showed up for the service. The twenty-fourth Psalm came to me, about letting the King of Glory come in. Then the passage in Revelation about Christ standing at the door and knocking.

After this, the last three of the feasts of the Lord, the feasts that follow Pentecost, entered my thinking. The light went on. Voila! It suddenly came together. We are in a historic change in the Kingdom of God, and this accounts for the emphasis on "let Jesus into your heart." The Judge is standing at the door!

For those who have not studied the feasts of the Lord (Leviticus 23), the fourth feast is Pentecost. The Pentecostal experience of speaking in tongues has been prominent in the twentieth century. Now God is moving into the spiritual fulfillment of the last three feasts.

The least three feast are to be taken together:

The Blowing of Trumpets, telling us that the Lord Jesus has come and is standing at the door of our heart. "Lift up your heads, O you gates."

The Day of Atonement signifying that the Lord, mighty in battle, will come in and deliver us from the enemy.

The seventh feast, Tabernacles speaks of the settling down to rest in us of the Father and the Son.

First we ask Jesus into our heart. This is a message to Christians, primarily, to the church in Laodicea. Christ enters and dines with us. Then He drives out the enemy that is troubling us.

But why the dining? We dine on His body and blood, His healing Virtue. He dines on our obedience and worship. If you will notice in the Psalms 149 we praise God on our bed. It is only then that we can execute the judgment of God.

So we ask the Lord into our life. Then we rest in His Virtue. Then He drives out the enemy. The result is, the Father and the Son make Their eternal abode in us.

How often are we to ask Christ into our heart? Every moment of every day and night of our entire life. We always are to be asking Christ into our heart. He always is knocking. We always are opening so that we may be delivered. This is the Kingdom of God!

He, the Overcomer, is always seeking entrance. When we grant Him entrance, He overcomes the enemy. Then the Father and the Son sit on the throne of our heart. When we have been proven faithful, we are permitted to sit on that throne with them. This, again, is the Kingdom of God.

So all us Christians had a great time in church Sunday morning last. We all asked Jesus to come into our heart.

If you want the problems solved in your own life, and you are a Christian, ask the Lord of Hosts to come into your heart. Rest in His glory and love. Then He will drive out the enemy.