Recieving would entail his coming in.
So yes ,it is about him coming in to us.
The vivid picture is " i stand at the door and knock"
I apologize for phrasing it poorly.
What I was trying to say is, it's not so much about Jesus Himself coming into us, as it is us receiving the truth of the gospel.
Keep in mind that Jesus is the truth, the light, the very WORD of God.
So another way of looking at that verse would be, "I, the light of the world, the word of truth of God, stand at the door and knock."
It is an extension of and from Jesus that we receive, like taking a piece of bread from the loaf, or a sip from the goblet. We take a part of the whole. Like taking a grain of sand from all the sand that is in the world, or a small cup from the oceans.
They come in the form of the truth of God's word that we receive.
If we receive the truth of God's plan of salvation, we have received Jesus.
Again, we are born again BY OR THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD.
It is the same word we are told to keep in our heart in order to remain in Christ.
It is very clear in scripture. We receive a seed of and from God, and this same said seed Jesus calls it as though it is Himself. Where the seed goes, He goes, and whatever happens to the seed, happens to Him. And whatever happens to the person that the seed of God is in, Happens to Him.
Mat 12:22 Then was brought unto him one
possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.
Mat 12:23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
Mat 12:24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not
cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
Mat 12:25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
Mat 12:26 And
if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
Mar 3:22 And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
Mar 3:23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables,
How can Satan cast out Satan?
Mar 3:24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Mar 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Mar 3:26 And
if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.
Num 11:25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took
of H4480 the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
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H4480
מנּי מנּי מן
min minnı̂y minnêy
min, min-nee', min-nay'
For H4482; properly
a part of;
So God literally took a part of the spirit that was on Moses and gave those parts to the 70 elders. Like taking 70 apples from a tree and giving it to 70 people.
That is what both Jesus and the Holy Spirit do, they take a part of themselves and give it to us.