Jesus: The Door to Divine Compassion and Life

The Tabernacle was basically a tent that had two apartments in it, a small one in the back called the holy of holies, and then there was a covering or an opening, and then there was a part in the front called The Holy place. There was another opening, and that kind of opened you out into a yard. In the yard, you would have a labor, kind of like a big bird bath, and in front of the labor, you had a big brass box, which was where they made their Altar and their sacrifice. Around this yard was this big white linen fence. [00:11:04]

There are three openings in the Tabernacle. The first one is known as the gate; that's the one that gets you into the outer Court. Then there's the third one, which most people are familiar with; it's called The Veil. The Veil was what separated the holy place from the holy of holies, where the Ark of the Covenant was. Then there's this second opening, which is basically the front of the tent proper; it's called the door. [00:53:52]

I found at least 24 different times in the Bible, and it just fascinated me that it was always the same way. Always it went like this: blue, purple, scarlet. I was talking to her about this thing, and her eyes lit up, and she said, "You don't get it, do you, brother HW?" She said, "Red and blue are primary colors; purple is a secondary color." She said, "These primary colors that are in nature, man can't reproduce them, but every other color comes from blending some of those primaries." [01:22:36]

When you mix the two, you get purple. She said, "Really, when you study this, brother Hoffman, it's not that it was blue and purple and Scarlet. What the real truth probably was is that there was blue and there was scarlet, and when they wove them both together, they got the color purple." That's the secret to what we're dealing with here today. This door, it's blue or Heavenly, it's Scarlet or Earthly, it's both. [02:00:59]

When you put the blue and the Scarlet together, you get this magnificent color, purple, which has always been given to royalty, something that's magnificent, something that should be honored and worshiped and venerated and exalted. That's our Jesus. You don't need to think in terms of father, son, Holy Spirit. Quit thinking in terms of three. All you got to do is think in terms of two: flesh or Spirit. [02:08:76]

Jesus said, "I'm the door," and there are so many in the New Testament. It is a direct quote from the old. So if you go back into the Old Testament, what's the most famous door in the Old Testament? The door between the outer court and the holy Place. Jesus said, "I'm that door. I'm the way for you to get in to the life and the truth that's in there." [04:10:75]

There are three places in the New Testament where Jesus resurrected dead people. He resurrected Jairus' daughter, who had just died. He resurrected the Widow's son at Nain; he was in the Box on the way to the cemetery. And he resurrected Lazarus, who was already buried. Jairus comes to him, and the Bible is very clear; he already knows his daughter's dead, and yet he comes to the Lord. [05:10:15]

Watch Jesus just grab this little girl and say, "Rise," and he pushes back the curtain and walks her out, and they're like, "Whoa, how did you do that?" The girl's daddy, he's bouncing off the walls, man. "Oh, right, I knew you could do it." What's the very next thing Jesus says? "I've done this so that you can glorify me." Nope. You know what he says? He looks around that crowd and he says, "Would one of you ladies make this little girl a sandwich?" [06:01:59]

They're on their way to the funeral. They're on their way to bury the boy. Now, here's what nobody preaches about. Nobody preaches about the mom. Listen to what it says: she is the Widow of Nain, and this is the Widow's son in the box, which means she's got a double whammy. She's not just buried her husband; now she's burying her only boy. She's lost her sweetheart and her son. [07:27:16]

Jesus walks up and does something you're not supposed to do. He reaches into the box, and he pulls this kid out of the box. Everybody in that funeral procession is stunned because they have just seen the most incredible display of heavenly power anywhere on the earth. What's the next thing Jesus says? "Son, go over to your mom because she's not sure you're real." [07:58:31]

Watch him go to Lazarus's. Watch that voice, "Lazarus," and watch that voice like a hunting dog going through every Crypt, every tomb. "Nope, not him. Nope, not him." Go all through hell. "Nope, not here." Go all the way to the bosom of Abraham, open up every door. Finally, you go in the banquet hall, and there's Lazarus in there having a big old time, and the voice says, "Lazarus, the boss needs you." [08:45:64]

That's not blue; that's not Scarlet; that's purple, baby. That's both of them. That's something from heaven and something so common being mixed together in one package. That's the Jesus we serve. [09:22:68]