I AM
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I <strong>AM</strong> : M. M. Ninan<br />
This is connected with the seventh year, the year of jubilee when<br />
every person who sold himself to slavery because of his debt will<br />
go back to his own. However, if during the period, he has endeared<br />
himself to the family and becomes part of the family, he can<br />
become a member of the family. This ceremony involved piercing<br />
the ears with an awl to the doorpost. He becomes a slave in the<br />
family forever.<br />
The imagery of Jesus as the door is that you are outside the family<br />
of God where there is pain, suffering, and death that sway all the<br />
time. David once said<br />
Psa 84:10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I<br />
would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the<br />
tents of the wicked.<br />
It is better to be a servant of the Lord all our lives than is a free<br />
person into this decaying world. But then the door is the way in to<br />
become part of this Kingdom of God.<br />
5.7 EARTHIANS AS QUARANTINED<br />
Earthians are quarantined because of deadly sin. There is another<br />
world outside of this world -- the Kingdom of Heaven where there<br />
is no sin, where there is no<br />
decay, pain, suffering or death.<br />
There the laws of Physics are<br />
different. There everything<br />
grows from order to greater<br />
order, glory to glory. We<br />
cannot get into the city of<br />
heaven because we are bound<br />
to this material dimension. We have been trying to get out of this<br />
53<br />
The only door beyond this<br />
decaying physical world into the<br />
undecaying physical world is<br />
Jesus