THE DOOR YOU NEVER WANT TO OPEN 
GENESIS 4:7 
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THERE IS A DOOR, GOD SAYS, 
BEHIND WHICH LIVES A BEAST: 
THE CRUELLEST AND MOST VICIOUS 
KNOWN FROM WEST TO EAST. 
 
IT CROUCHETH AND LIETH STILL, 
WAITING FOR ITS PREY: 
SOME SIMPLE MINDED REBEL 
TURNING FROM GODS' WAY. 
 
GOD SAYS THAT WHEN WE SIN 
WE ARE TO MAKE IT RIGHT; 
CONFESS AND FORSAKE IT, 
NOT HIDE IT FROM HIS SIGHT. 
 
GOD CHASTENS AND REBUKES 
THOSE WHO SHOULD REPENT 
SEEKS TO BRING THEM TO THE FOLD 
OUT FROM WHICH THEY WENT. 
 
WHEN WE'VE SINNED, AND ARE REBUKED 
THEN WE'VE A CHOICE TO MAKE. 
THE MOST CRUCIAL CHOICE OF ALL, 
"WHICH PATH WILL WE TAKE?" 
 
WILL WE REPENT AND TURN FROM SIN 
TO SERVE THE LIVING GOD? 
OR PULL AWAY OUR SHOULDER 
DESPISE HIS CHASTENING ROD? 
 
GOD SAYS CAIN MADE THE CHOICE 
TO OPEN THAT DOOR TO SIN. 
THIS HE DID, AS YOU CAN SEE, 
AND LOOK WHAT'S LEFT OF HIM. 
 
THE FIRST KILLER HE BECAME: 
MURDERED HIS OWN BROTHER! 
TOOK HIS WIFE AWAY FROM GOD 
TO GO AND SERVE ANOTHER. 
 
RAISED A BUNCH OF REBEL KIDS 
WHO RAISED SOME OTHERS TOO. 
MULTITUDES HAVE GONE TO HELL, 
AND IT IS STILL NOT THROUGH. 
 
HE THOUGHT THAT HE WAS REALLY TOUGH, 
BUT THE BEAST OF SIN IS STRONGER. 
YOU CAN'T ESCAPE HIS BRAZEN GRASP, 
IF GOD YOU HAVE NO LONGER. 
 
THAT SAME OLD BEAST OF PRIDE 
BROUGHT SATAN DOWN FROM GLORY 
TO BECOME GOD'S ENEMY 
WITH HELL TO END HIS STORY. 
 
THIS BEAST MY FRIEND IS HUNGRY, 
T'WOULD LOVE DEVOURING YOU. 
JUST SHUN GOD'S LOVING SPIRIT, 
AND IT WILL ALL BE THROUGH. 
 
GO AHEAD YOU REBEL SON, 
OR DAUGHTER FULL OF PRIDE, 
DESPISE THE LAWS OF MOM AND DAD, 
THEN TURN AND STEP OUTSIDE. 
 
GO AHEAD CHURCH MEMBERS 
DESPISE THE REBUKE OF GOD; 
MAKE YOUR CHOICE FOR SELF 
AND DOWN THAT PATHWAY TROD. 
 
OVERJOYED THAT BEAST WILL BE 
WHEN YOUR HIDE HE SEES. 
BEFORE YOU KNOW, YOU'LL BE IN HELL 
WHERE GOD'S DEAF TO MERCY PLEAS. 
 
O WOULD IT NOT BE BETTER, FRIEND 
TO HUMBLE YOURSELF AND TURN; 
TO FEAR THE LORD JEHOVAH, 
NOT IN HIS WRATH TO BURN? 
 
LET THAT BEAST STARVE TO DEATH. 
BOLT THAT DOOR TO SIN. 
SET YOUR HEART ON JESUS, 
HIS KINGDOM'S JOY TO WIN! 
 
YES, SIN CROUCHETH AT THE DOOR, 
BUT YOU NEED NOT GO THROUGH. 
WHEN REBUKED, REPENT AT ONCE. 
GOD WAITS TO PARDON YOU. 
 
MARK BULLEN 7/23/94