Don’t let that title confuse you. This is all about the infamous and quite childish knock-knock joke.
“Knock, knock.”
“Who’s there?”
“Bam.”
“Bam, who?”
“Bamboo, to you.” (…with a good whack! on the top of the head…)
Yes, it’s a kid thing, if we’re fourteen years old. However, it’s also an adult thing, if we want to enter heaven.
How’s that? We can use knock-knock jokes to get into heaven?
Jesus did. Rather, he used knock-knock jokes to illustrate how our faith in him becomes our foundation to our Christian success in him.
“Knock, knock.”
“Who’s there?”
“Good things.”
“Good things, who?”
“Aren’t you glad I’m offering good things to you?” (…with a pile of good stuff showered on our lives…)
We can read the Bible version in Matthew 7:7:
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
Our most important good thing is found in John 3:16:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
Yet, here is how our knock-knock experience usually goes:
“Knock, knock.”
“Is that you, humanity?”
“Knock, knock.”
“I’ve already answered the door.”
“Knock, knock. Jesus, are you there?”
“I’m waiting to give you all good things. Just come on in.” (…and Jesus sighs with exasperation…)
We can be certain Jesus is on the other side of that door. When we knock, we don’t have to question if he hears us. It goes like this:
“Knock, knock.”
“Jesus, here.”
“Are you certain you’re really there, Jesus?”
“I’m certain.”
“Certain, who?” (…said with lingering doubt…)
“Certain I’ve come for you, to gift you with eternal life through my blood shed on the cross for the sins of all humanity.”
Wow! That’s a knock-knock joke every adult wants to participate in! Let’s get our knuckles ready!
When we knock on wood, Jesus is waiting just on the other side.
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