Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, Sir, open the door for us. But he will answer, I don't know you or where you come from — the finality of the closed door is the eschatological judgment's image: the time of opportunity has an end, and those who appeal to their external association with Jesus (we ate and drank with you, you taught in our streets) find that familiarity is not intimacy.

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