More Of The Monkees - The Monkees

Colgems COS-102 RE
1967

Side One:
When Love Comes Knockin' (At Your Door)
Mary, Mary
Hold On Girl
Your Aunt Grizelda
(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone

Sided Two:
Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)
The Kind Of Girl I Could Love
The Day We Fall In Love
Sometime In The Morning
Laugh
I'm A Believer

What song title would you guess I'll pick as providing a spiritual theme. How about "I'm A Believer?" Sounds like a good thing to boast about. But it's not what is on the minds of believers. What is on our minds is,"I wish you were a believer." The song title I'm picking for this LP is all about my desire that you be saved from hell.

When Love Comes Knockin' (At Your Door) - Jesus said that he is standing at the door and knocking. If you open the door he will come in. God is not hiding. Jesus is not hiding. Salvation (the way to heaven) is not hidden. Listen. Jesus is knocking right now.

Why can't you hear him? Because sin separates you from God, blinding you. Making you deaf. The word "sin" means to disobey God. Until you recognize that you are a sinner... that you are someone who has broken God's laws... you will remain blind and deaf. Your focus will be on your sin, not on God. And because of that you will not hear Jesus knocking.

You can be a very spiritual person. But being spiritual has nothing to do with being saved from hell. You can never be good enough, or spiritual enough to reach heaven through your own efforts.

You can be a very religious person. But religion will not save you. Obeying a church will not save you. Obeying a priest will not save you. You would be trying to obey mankind's commands (religions all come from mankind) and that gets you nowhere but hell.

Listen. Hear Jesus knocking at your door. Turn away from all other efforts to reach God. Trust in Jesus alone. Through his death on the cross he paid the penalty you owe for everything you've ever done wrong. Only Jesus can free you from sin. Trust that Jesus did die to pay the penalty for your sins.