Matthew 14.3–11 - Behind Closed Doors

Matthew 14.3–11 - Behind Closed Doors

We don’t know who exposed the bawdy birthday bash in today’s text. It’s doubtful any of the Gospel authors were invited. But somehow the whole world now reads this infallible record of men behaving badly, millennia before social media. What happened in Herod’s palace did not stay there. It rarely does. Despite the father of lies seductive assurances, these words of Moses always come true, “be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32.23).  And afterwards we wish that we behaved agreeing with the truth we instinctively know - closed doors are not barriers for His Sovereign gaze. The Risen Jesus easily entered the “locked room” to meet those scared disciples on Easter night. Better plan? Live, as the brethren of the East African revival exhort, “in a house with no roof and no walls.” Joyful and unashamed, pursuing holiness in fellowship with our Great King.