There is a great mystery in the Bible, the understanding of which can bring great clarity to many misunderstood doctrinal positions. The mystery I speak of the Bible calls the “Sacred Threshold”. “We have this certain hope like a strong, unbreakable anchor holding our souls to God himself. Our anchor of hope is fastened to the mercy seat in the heavenly realm beyond the SACRED THRESHOLD,” (Hebrews 6:19 TPT)

What is a threshold? A threshold is a space occupying a position at, or on both sides of a boundary. If you were to stand in the threshold of a doorway, you would be neither outside, nor inside, but within the space occupying a boundary position, I call this a liminal zone. In the Scriptures there is a place that is a boundary position that is neither only physical, nor is it only spiritual. It is both physical and spiritual, this is referred to as a “Sacred Threshold”. When standing in a threshold, you are not completely occupying either space, and at the same time you are occupying both spaces at once.

The Bible speaks of a Sacred Threshold by which there is a space which both occupies the physical realm and the spiritual realm. When Jesus said, “I am the door” He literally meant it, and today His Spirit beckons us to cross over the Sacred Threshold. Many religionists argue at this point their paradigm of free grace vs freewill, but this revelation of the sacred threshold unifies both arguments.

Here is how. If you can envision yourself standing on this side of a threshold and when you look above the door there is a sign that reads “Whosoever will come,” the sign is stating that it’s your choice. As you decide to cross this threshold, you look back and see that there is another sign on the other side that reads, “You didn’t choose me, I chose you”. This is the mystery of the Sacred Threshold. The cross of Jesus Christ is the Sacred Threshold, this is the unifying mystery of how God can give men both freewill and a predestined outcome. It unifies the paradigm argued by Arminianism “freewill”, and Calvinism “free grace”. But more than that, it relieves us of the focus on arguable doctrines and realigns us to the centrality of this mystery of the Sacred Threshold. The cross of Jesus Christ is the Sacred Threshold and Jesus is the door.

Do you know Jesus or are you tripping over a religious argument that is somehow keeping you from knowing Him? Jesus said, “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.” (John 10:9 NKJV) In order to cross the boundary of this mystery threshold into the spiritual realm of salvation, the only approved entry point is Jesus Christ and His cross, the Sacred Threshold.

Devotional by Rory Larsen