If Jesus Came to Your House

If Jesus Came to Your House If Jesus came to your house to spend a day or two– If he came unexpectedly, I wonder what you’d do. Oh, I know you’d give your nicest room to such an honored guest, And all the food you’d serve to him would be the very best, And you would keep assuring him you’re glad to have him there– That serving him in your home is a joy beyond compare. But when you saw him coming, would you meet him at the door With arms outstretched in welcome to your heavenly visitor? Or would you have to change your clothes before you left him in? Or hide some magazines and put the Bible where they’d been? Would you turn off the TV and radio, and hope he hadn’t heard? And wish you hadn’t uttered that last, loud, hasty word? Would you hide your worldly music and put some hymn books out? Would you let Jesus walk right in, or would you rush about? And I wonder—if the savior spent a day or two with you, Would you go right on doing the things you always do? Would you go right on saying the things you always say? Would life for you continue as it does from day to day? Would your family conversation keep up its usual pace? Or would you find it hard each meal to say a table grace? Would you sing the songs you always sing, and read the books you read, And let him know the things on which your mind and soul feed? Would you take Jesus with you everywhere you’d planned to go? Or would you, maybe, change your plans for just a day or so? Would you be glad to have him meet your very best friends? Or would you hope they’d stay away until his visit ends? Would you be glad to have him stay forever on and on? Or would you sigh with great relief when he at last was gone? It might be interesting to know the things that you would do If Jesus Christ in person came to spend some time with you.

There are three words you absolutely have to remember tonight, bless your heart: believing, love, and hope. All three of these words, people, grow out of or come from the Word.

Now remember, hope anticipates. Hope does what? Anticipates.

Believing appropriates, takes it to itself.

Then it’s love. And there we’re talking about agapaō, the love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation. And love activates both believing and hope.

Now when you work the Word of God and you endeavor to serve people by serving them the Word of God, one great thing that you learn as you work the Word is that God marked the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation. He marked this Bible, the Scriptures, as to that which He wanted emphasized. I used to ask myself the question, “What’s important in the Word?” Didn’t know the answer. I know the answer tonight. The answer is that God marked everything in the Bible that He wanted to really emphasize, put the oomph to it, He marked it with a figure of speech. Figures of speech are God’s marking in the Word from Genesis to Revelation as to what God wants emphasized.