Matthew 7:13<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cEnter by the narrow gate; for wide\u00a0is the gate and broad\u00a0is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.\u201d There is going to come a time in everyone\u2019s life when they\u2019ve either found the narrow gate or they\u2019ve gone too far and missed it, and the only thing left is the wide road that leads to destruction. Some aren\u2019t looking for the narrow gate, they are just following everybody else like sheep being led to the slaughter. \u201cBecause narrow\u00a0is the gate and difficult\u00a0is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it\u201d (Matthew 7:14). They don\u2019t want difficulties they want a life of ease. Notice how many enter through the narrow gate, it says few and doesn\u2019t specify how many few are. It gives us a hint because the way is difficult which leads to life. Life itself can be difficult, but that\u2019s not what it\u2019s talking about. It\u2019s not having a difficult life brought on by ourselves doing things we shouldn\u2019t or things that bring difficulties by our addictions either. It\u2019s the difficulties brought on by being a true follower of Jesus Christ. The first step in entering through the narrow gate is acknowledging Jesus as the Son of God who was punished for our sins, beaten bled, and died on the Cross, was buried and rose again on the third day and, ask Him to receive you as you accept Him as Lord and Savior of your life. The second step is to \u201cRepent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord\u201d (Acts 3:19). The Third step is to lay down your life as a sacrifice, take up your cross daily and follow Jesus. Doing the will of the Father will bring on the difficulties on this narrow road as your family and friends reject you. Persecution comes because you refuse to deny the name of Jesus. Those that go down the wide road will meet their destruction because they refused correction. \u201cGod will wound the head of His enemies, The hairy scalp of the one who still goes on in his trespasses\u201d (Psalm 68:21). Have you found the narrow gate? If you have, lead someone else through it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Matthew 7:13 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cEnter by the narrow gate; for wide\u00a0is the gate and broad\u00a0is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.\u201d There is going to come a time in everyone\u2019s life when they\u2019ve either found the narrow gate or they\u2019ve gone too far and missed it, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}