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Two Gates
Don’t pleasure read much.
One quote in the book stuck out in my mind more than anything else I learned.
Osama Bin Laden issued a statement months earlier making a threat to America.
A Gallup poll taken on September 10, 2001, found that fewer than 1 percent of Americans considered terrorism to be the nation’s No. 1 concern.
But they didn’t know that a countdown had already begun.
Nineteen bin Laden devotees, radicalized young Arab men living in the United States, awoke on September 11, 2001, determined to fulfill the fatwa.
In twenty-four hours, the poll results would change, along with everything else.
Mitchell Zuckoff Fall and Rise
We had fooled ourselves into thinking we were safe until it was too late.
Spiritually, I believe this may be the case for many in our area.
This passage today I believe is a call to examine ourselves.
See which path we are on.
To take the message and warning seriously and evaluate before its too late.
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is a apart of a larger section of Scripture known as the sermon on the mount.
Its the longest sermon recorded by Jesus that we have in the Gospels.
You should know we are picking up in the middle of a larger sermon.
But I’m not a slither of the preacher or teacher that our Lord was, so we will take two verses and focus in on them.
From the beginning here and from our reading earlier, I’m sure that you notice that Jesus is teaching, but he is teaching through a series of pictures and explanation.
He does this often.
We see this all over the New Testament, but in this particular passage, Jesus is explaining and having the crowd that is listening to Him focus three particular pictures.
Gates, Trees, Houses.
Specifically 2 gates, 2 trees, 2 houses.
But I want to be clear here, Jesus isn’t just telling you about gates, about trees, and about houses, because he wants us to know about different types of gates, trees or house.
He is teaching this, because each Picture provides for those who hear it with a spiritual meaning.
So as we go through these pictures, we have to ask:
What do do these pictures mean?
Not what do they mean to us?
What did Jesus mean by the pictures?
The first metaphor, or picture that Jesus uses here in this part of the Sermon on the Mount is the picture of two gates.
There is a narrow gate and there is a wide gate.
There is a few distinguishing factors about each gate of which, we should take note, because they do have a deeper spiritual meaning.
But Jesus isn’t just telling you about gates, about trees, and about houses, because he wants us to know about different types of gates, tress or house.
Each Picture provides for those who hear it with a spiritual.
So as we go through these picture, we have to ask:
What do do these pictures mean?
First, lets look at the wide gate.
“Enter through the narrow gate.”
The wide gate is wide.
That’s the operative command here.
There is no ambiguity.
He is very clear.
Now, I know I have just given you some revolutionary information.
Everybody knows the wide gate is wide.
But what does he mean by wide gate?
Again, Jesus is not telling them about the two gates to increase their understanding of gates.
There is a narrow gate, and he desires that we go through it and he gives us the reason why the narrow gate is the gate we should enter.
He is telling them this information to explain to them a great spiritual truth.
So the first thing we need to understand is:
for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.
The Wide gate is wide- and what he means by that is that:
It is a gate large enough for the world.
The reason that Jesus urges us that we go through the narrow gate is that the assumption is that those who have not entered the narrow gate are on a path of destruction.
A gate that calls to every man.
Its a gate that many of our friends and family have entered.
Its a gate that seems pleasing to the eyes.
Those who go through it are normally not satisfied going alone.
They will bring friends with them.
Its the easy way out.
Its where and what everybody else is doing.
And don’t miss this, it very well may be the gate to which are headed.
The wide gate is wide.
The Wide Gate accommodates the broad path.
The gate would need to be wide to because there are many people on the path leading up to it.
Again, it being the broad path shows us that the majority that is most people are on the broad path.
The Broad path obviously is traveled by:
Atheists.
People who worship other gods
By murderers
By liars
The drunkard
By those who do not live according to God’s design sexually whether that be the adulterer, the homosexual, the one who has sexual relations outside the bonds of marriage.
And the reality is that the majority of these people will even tell you that they are traveling along the broad path.
They readily admit that they have no time for God or the things of God.
These people are obviously on the path that leads to destruction and for the most part, they know it.
However, this is sad part.
The broad path is often not so obviously traveled by:
Pastors- Men who fulfill the duties of the job without really possessing and having salvation.
Men who are nothing less than hypocrites.
Fakes.
Deacons- Men who were put into a position, but do not have Christ.
Do not serve Christ.
Look for ways to to escape worshipping and learning about Christ.
Church members- people who have walked an aisle, said a prayer, been baptized.
They hold on to a past “decision” they made to walk an aisle in the church.
They hold on to a moment in time when they were baptized.
Lets be clear though- Changing geographical locations in a building during a worship service invitation does not save us.
Repenting of sin and trusting in Christ saves.
Being baptized does not save.
In fact, if you are trusting on your church membership or baptism to save you or anything else you have done that you think make you acceptable to God, you are severely mistaken and in danger of hell.
We have to ask the question at this point.
Divine Sovereignty
Divine Sovereignty
General
Psalm 103:19 NASB95
The Lord has established His throne in the heavens, And His sovereignty rules over all.
1 Chronicles 29:11 NASB95
“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O Lord, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.
1 Timothy 6:14–15 NASB95
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