O Key of David and Sceptre of the house of Israel, that openest and no man shutteth, who shuttest and no man openeth: come and bring the prisoner out of the prisonhouse and him that sitteth in darkness and in the shadow of death.
A door exists to provide a temporary entrance and a temporary barrier. Our Lord calls Himself the door of the sheepfold and we can therefore expect that He will provide access to the fold for some and deny access to others. A sheepfold keeps the sheep safe, gives them comfortable surroundings and allows them the freedom to be sheep.
A prison is in many respects the opposite of a sheepfold. It is designed to keep prisoners shut away in undesirable circumstances, control their movements, and prevent the prisoner from exercising their own will for their lives.
Our sin shuts us away from God. It prevents us from living lives of freedom and denies us from being in control of our lives. Our desires are clouded by the darkness of Sin and its effects pervading the cosmos like the smoke of Hell itself.
Jesus is a door, but he is also the Key of David. He opens doors. He opens the doors of those minds used to the Old Testament to behold Him as the One Who fulfills the Old Testament fully. In so doing, He opens the doors of the prison of our sin by reconciling us to God. In rising again, He breaks down the gates of Hades and our inevitable departure from this life.
No man has control of this door save Christ. He chooses those for whom to open or to close based on their desire for Him and their rejection of sin. To enter in by Christ is to choose to leave the prisonhouse of sin. To take control of one's life by giving that control back to Christ is the means of our salvation.
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