Understanding the New Testament!!
Message #72
SCRIPTURE (7) - Matthew 7:13-15
Those who are studying the New Testament and KNOW the Scriptures have TWO MAJOR PLUSSES: 1. They are able to assure themselves that they truly belong to God and are heaven-bound. 2. They can tell others the same truths, to help THEM to also become heaven-bound! This is SO important to be able to share with the many church-goers who may call themselves Christian, but really aren't - and so, tragically, are hell-bound often WITHOUT KNOWING IT! *heart-breaking!*
Matthew 7
13 Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and spacious and broad is the way that leads away to destruction, and many are those who are entering through it.
Jesus is saying that for every person on the planet there's a choice of just TWO WAYS to go: through the narrow gate, or through the wide gate. The wide gate is NOT the way you want! It's a wide and easy way - but it leads to destruction! (hell). WARNING #1: Most people are on this way!! WARNING #2: Everyone on earth is on this way UNLESS and UNTIL they choose to look for, and find, and ENTER and LIVE OUT the narrow and hard way!
14 But the gate is narrow (contracted by pressure) and the way is narrow and hard that leads to life, and few are those who find it.
Clearly THE NARROW GATE is the one you want! I didn't say this, JESUS DID! Ensure you find it, then go through it! Being the exact opposite to the wide and easy way, THIS way will be narrow and hard for you - BUT while the other way leads to hell, this is the one that leads to Life with a capital "L" - with God forever!!! VERY SERIOUS WARNING: it's only a very FEW people who actually find this way!!! I didn't say this either, JESUS DID!
15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you dressed as sheep, but inside they are devouring wolves.
Finally, there are numbers of false teachers, preachers and churches around, who pretend to be sheep - and do you no harm - but actually are the exact OPPOSITE! What they say may sound right, and what they do may look right, BUT THEY ARE NOT! They can EASILY lead YOU and MANY OTHERS along the BROAD WAY TO HELL and DESTRUCTION. BEWARE of trusting THEM!!
There is a way to tell the sheep from the devouring wolves, which we'll look at soon... Till then!
- BM, with his Love 
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