No self-praise of boasting will usher you in; No claim to one's own merits will make you stand before the presence of The Mighty King of glory-Even Jesus Christ! No merit of your own to usher you in, no footing to stand upon before the presence of the Great and Mighty King!
Proverbs 25:6 “Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great,”
On what merit, worth, status, wealth, works, efforts, position, office, authority or right shall you put yourself in the Presence of t...he great King and eternal God-even The King of all King and Sovereign of all sovereigns, the LORD Jesus Christ?
What right do you have? And by whose Authority are you authorized to enter? What claims of importance can you make that would bring you into His presence that He would take notice of you? None!
None, but your filthy sin cursed soul clothed in darkness of sin and death's dark robe of sin and death; only for the great King to send you away in shame before His Father and the Heavenly Hosts and Holy angels; only to send you away in shame and utter separation into the outer darkness and torments of the lake of fire where there will be gnashing of the teeth, wailing and writhing in pain of eternal torment where there is your eternal place and destiny reserved for you!
For the King will notice you, indeed, but not for your blessing, but for your cursing; He will notice you that you are not clothed in wedding cloths, but in filthy rags at His wedding banquet, and He will call His heavenly hosts to cast you out of his presence forever: " But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. 12And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. 13Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 14For many are called, but few are chosen.” Matthew 22: 11-14. For in speechless, utter shame, you will stand before Him, to find your shameful nakedness before Him, because you refused to be clothed in the robe of righteousness without the very fibers of His shed blood clothing you!
The only claim you can make before the presence of The Great and Mighty Eternal King, is your own emptiness and helplessness to your inability for deliverance from the clutches of the sin cursed self of sin, darkness and death; Your own poverty to cloth yourself, you very nakedness exposed before Him; your very nature of darkness exposed before the nature of His Holy, pure light and great love and compassion of the light of His presence!
The only claim you can make is to fall helpless before the throne of grace and bow your knee at the foot of the cross, before, and at the feet of Jesus, that His blood may cleanse you and cloth you in the robe of His righteousness and that you may be cleansed and made new in the new birth of Christ's Holy nature unto your dead soul. The only entrance before the throne of Grace that will usher you into the presence of God is that you stand by faith in the shed blood of Jesus, resting on the merits of His death and Resurrection that your place may be reserved for you in the light of His eternal glory, in the eternal place and dwelling in the presence of God forever!
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