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The Narrow Gate
“Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it.” ( Matt. 7:13 )
The road to eternal salvation is hard to get on. There is not much of an entry ramp. And the road itself is very narrow. It is a rough road. It is the highway to eternal damnation that is easy to get on. The entry ramp is wide. The road itself is wide. It is a smooth, newly blacktopped expressway, and partly because of you, it now has a majority of Christendom now traveling on it. Heed what you are being told. Heed the warning in Matt. 7:14 . The road to damnation is a high-way. The road to salvation is a low-way.
Heed what is true to God, you numerous men of God in love with the gospel of Christ mixed with the sweet poison of Satan. Heed what is true to God, you numerous men of God who are so bent on preaching your fables. Heed what is true to God you numerous men of God who are erroneously preaching how easy the gate to eternal salvation is found, and how easy the road is to travel which leads to eternal salvation.
Jesus is the way. ( John 14:6 ) More specifically, Jesus’ way of the cross is the narrow road. Consequently, it seems absurd to take the narrow road, but to those headed for salvation the way of the cross is the power and the wisdom of God. ( 1 Cor. 1: 18, 1 Cor. 1: 23-24 )
All with ears to hear and hearts open to God and His reproof take heed: When we choose the narrow road, we choose Christ, who took the strictest of all moral laws and made it even more strict to obey. ( Matt. 5: 22, 28, 32, 34, 39, 44 ) The fables so loved and preached are false. The new law of Christ is stricter than the Law of Moses. Christ did not come to do away with the old law. He came to fulfill it!
This would seem to put all of us Christians under a curse of frustration. However, the difference between the old and the new law is not just that it is stricter. It is that we don’t have to observe the new law by our own power. We observe it by the power of the Holy Spirit.
There is to be an end to the misunderstanding of God’s word and to the twisting of it. There is to be an end to the wrong thinking and acting in the name of Christ. There is to be an end to the wrongful preaching. There is to be no confusion. There is to be right understanding of God’s Word. There is to be right worship of God.
“ The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” ( 2 Cor. 3:17 ) We do have freedom from the curse of the old law. We do not have a do -it -yourself- law, but a let -it -be -done- law. ( Luke 1: 38 ) It is God’s new law so He has to provide the power to do it ( 1 Thess. 5: 24 ), while we have to provide the obedience to let it be done. ( Hebrews 5: 9) (1 Peter 1: 22 ) See also Hebrews 3: 18 and Hebrews 4: 1 .
Therefore, “ there is no condemnation now for those who are in Christ Jesus. The law of the spirit, the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, has freed you from the law of sin and death… so that the just demands of the law might be fulfilled in us who live, not according to the flesh ( in disobedience and sin ), but according to the spirit ( in obedience to God by His power). See Romans 8: 1-2, 4 .
Understand the true meaning of God’s Word often perverted by so many men of God. Don’t believe the lies. God can not dwell in a soul defiled with mortal sin. If you do not have Christ in your soul then you are far from salvation in Christ. ( Romans 8 : 9 )
Teachers and prophets of God who are true to Him will lead God’s people to choose the narrow road, the hard, unpopular way- the way of the cross.
There is even a man now on the scene who has many followers who says that he is Christ and who preaches that there is no sin. It is that bad now, the damage from the fables so loved and preached by so many professing Christ, that such a man would even have a following, let alone the numerous supporters he does have. This man acts not of God. But even when they are given the truth by the will of God will the many men of God accept or reject God’s rebuke. How many will fail to give up their wrongful preaching which flies in the face of God? All who fail to do as they should do not fully act of God. They serve two masters.
Trust those men of God who help God. They are the ones who do not hinder Christ as He enables those on the broad road to exit that expressway immediately!
You who are misled and misleading, who are believing wrong, all you have to do is want to keep faith with Jesus Christ and call upon Him and He will help you see the truth of the great apostasy. It is God’s will that you not go on to damnation. It is God’s will that you be rescued.
May it be that the great number of God’s people on the wrong road take a better look around and see it’s the wrong road and not go on and on down that road.
Blessed are you lost who stop finding excuses not to act upon God’s will. Blessed are those of you lost who do not fail to welcome God’s actions.
The shaking must be. It must intensify. The water of God’s grace is being poured down. But much of Christendom is not using it as they must in these troubled and evil times. This is a time of great evil in the Church. But few are willing to see it as it really is. And the voice a great many of God’s people are choosing to hear is that of the counterfeit spirit who is posing as God.
Numerous Christians have died and gone to hell and not heaven as they thought, having lived according to the doctrines of demons, the fables so popular in Christendom. Many more are in danger as they too love the damnable doctrines and like to have their ears ticked by men of God who have it wrong.
It may be that you have it wrong because of the way you were taught believing what you heard to be true. But what is your excuse for not hearing the correction of the Lord?
God is not silent. His voice is thundering. And every man of God who is with Him will come to say the same. They will heed the call to holiness. And they will give the call to holiness.
There is a standard of perfection before us. “ You must be perfect just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” ( Matt. 5: 48 ) Even in the Old Testament days, God set a standard of perfection before Israel: “ Be holy, for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.” ( Lev. 19: 2 ) Nothing imperfect or unholy can enter heaven: “… nothing profane shall enter it, nor anyone who is a liar or has done a detestable act.” ( Rev. 21: 27 )
In the gift of the Holy Spirit Christ makes personal holiness accessible to everyone. We must always realize, yes, that personal perfection is totally the gift of God ( 1 Cor. 4: 7 ), still, God’s gift is never forced; God fully honors the freedom of each person. We can choose to leave His kindness for sin. ( Romans 11: 22 ) Thus, co-operation with the sanctifying action of the Holy Spirit is most important. More than anything else, personal progress in holiness depends on this.
The way of Christian perfection is Jesus Christ, especially as we view Him under the aspect of His death and resurrection. As the perfect model of holiness, Christ tells us that suffering is a necessary part of the struggle to become holy. “ Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.” ( Luke 14: 27 )
The “ cross” refers to all of the trials which come to us, especially as we strive to carry out our personal vocations as Christians. As in the life of Jesus, however, the cross is only a means to an end. At all times, the resurrection is our true goal. “Always, wherever we may be, we carry with us in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus, too, may always be seen in our body.” ( 2 Cor. 4: 10 )
Faith in Christ risen, and firm hope that His resurrection shall also be ours, provides us with strength to endure the hardships which inevitably befall those who seek first the kingdom of God.
The false gospel allows you to lay up for yourself treasures here on earth. The Word of God tells us different. See Matt. 6: 19-21 .The false gospel allows you to serve both God and mammon. The Word of God tells us different. See Matt. 6: 24 . What we need to do is seek God’s kingdom and His righteousness and we shall have happiness. ( Matt. 6: 33 )
The false gospel allows you to follow your own desires and have Jesus. It allows you to sin and go to heaven. We were warned about this lovable fable and others so preached in this hour. “ For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but, following their own desires, will surround themselves with teachers who tickle their ears, They will stop listening to the truth and will wander off to fables.” ( 2 Timothy 4:3-4 )
If you have entered the narrow gate and are on the road leading to heaven then you see this sign post: {The love of God consists in this: That we keep His commandments- and His commandments are not burdensome. }( 1 John 5:3 )
God’s commandments are not burdensome for us because every child of God is able to defeat the world of evil. Practical faith of this kind confers a power that conquers even as Christ overcame the world. ( 1 John 5:4 ) ( John 16:33 )
And you see this sign post:{The unholy will not fall heir to the kingdom of God. }( 1 Cor. 6:9 )
When perfected, Jesus became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him. ( Hebrews 5:9 ) Faith that does nothing in practice is thoroughly lifeless. ( James 2:14-17 ) Faith without works is as dead as a body without breath. ( James 2:26 )
And you see this sign post as well: {Everyone who has the hope of the life to come with God in heaven based on Jesus Christ prepare for it by leading a life like that of God’s own Son. They, keeping themselves pure as He is pure. }( 1 John 3:3 )
The man or woman who remains in Christ and Christ in him or her, does not sin. The man or woman who sins does not have fellowship with Christ; he or she has not seen Him or known Him. ( 1 John 3:6 ) The man or woman who sins has fellowship with the devil. He or she belongs to the devil because the devil is a sinner from the beginning. ( 1 John 3:8 )
There are those of you men of God who have given yourselves over to modernism thinking you were embracing a true word. But you are wrong. And you will be wrong not to admit to it. Yet, God will not stop with working to rescue all of you from the scourge of Satan in the House of God. How many of you will come to prepare the way of Jesus coming again?
God is not putting His people down, not any of us, not the worst of the rebellious. He does not wish to crush, to deprive of authority, power, or position, to degrade, any of you men of God in trouble, or any of us other Christians in trouble. God works to give all liberty and release all in danger from what would be a terrible fate. And it will be terrible fate should any in the House of God fail to accept His rescue. ( Luke 4: 18 )
Jesus is Redeemer. He works in behalf of all mankind and not only those bearing the name of Christ, with the same kind of love and urgency. God will save, He will bring all who are in the world out from the world into His waiting arms. That is, those who will let Him. And He will bring back to their senses, back to Him, those of us in His household wandering. Again, those of us wandering who will let Him. The question is: Who on the wide road of perdition will let Him?
God is for all of us bearing His name, whether true and untrue for the moment. He has mercy on us all.
Even the worst of us sinners, you cowards and traitors to the faith, God wants you with Him. And if you come to your senses and leave the harlot Church, heeding His rebuke, it will be as though you had never gone another way, done a wrong, as if you never requited shamefully His divine love and care.
Having said this, there are those of you who will never stop preferring the fables, who will prefer the false teachings, who will prefer unbelief of the true, and who will be found by God in harlotry. Yes, you will prefer this to God’s invitation to repent.
This is a time like no other before. This is all the more reason for us to seek God out, and to be willing to change. This is all the more reason for us to open our ears and guard our words and our actions. If we do not, we may fail to hear God who is at work in behalf of His people and all mankind. Most will come before Him in the end as a rebel. You prefer to hear a lie? Be wise. Understand that God is at work and that His work is thorough!
God does have His messengers. He has His witnesses who must speak the truth. He has His messengers who must speak the truth holding nothing back. Though what they utter is unpopular, they preach repentance to the people of God and to all the nations. “ Yet when the Son of Man comes, will He find, do you think, faith on the earth?” ( Luke 18: 8 )
Your brother who loves you, and who loves God above all, who needs to do better in the Lord and asks for your prayers,
Eddie