Obey Gate (16 of 35)
Series: Obey Everything
Steve Jones
Matthew 7:13-14
SERMON SUMMARY: This sermon addresses Jesus’ command to enter by the “narrow gate.” We explore what it means to say that the gate is “narrow.” It doesn’t mean “narrow” in the sense of difficult - but “narrow” in the sense of EXCLUSIVE. Jesus IS the “gate.”
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.
And sorry I could not travel both.
And being one traveler, long I stood.
And I looked down one as far as I could,
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear.
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Jesus also talked about a “Road less travelled” in Matthew 7. In fact, he commanded us to TAKE the road less travelled.
Mt.7:13-14 “Enter through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.”
Today I’m going to talk about the “narrow gate.” Next week I’ll talk about the “difficult road.”
The GATE is narrow on the road less travelled.
How DID that gate get so narrow? Isn’t that just like God? He offers this highway to Heaven, but the gate is SO narrow and the way is SO hard, and you have to be SO impossibly righteous that almost NO one is going to get in!
ILLUSTRATION: Thomas Costain’s history, The Three Ed ...
Series: Obey Everything
Steve Jones
Matthew 7:13-14
SERMON SUMMARY: This sermon addresses Jesus’ command to enter by the “narrow gate.” We explore what it means to say that the gate is “narrow.” It doesn’t mean “narrow” in the sense of difficult - but “narrow” in the sense of EXCLUSIVE. Jesus IS the “gate.”
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.
And sorry I could not travel both.
And being one traveler, long I stood.
And I looked down one as far as I could,
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear.
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Jesus also talked about a “Road less travelled” in Matthew 7. In fact, he commanded us to TAKE the road less travelled.
Mt.7:13-14 “Enter through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.”
Today I’m going to talk about the “narrow gate.” Next week I’ll talk about the “difficult road.”
The GATE is narrow on the road less travelled.
How DID that gate get so narrow? Isn’t that just like God? He offers this highway to Heaven, but the gate is SO narrow and the way is SO hard, and you have to be SO impossibly righteous that almost NO one is going to get in!
ILLUSTRATION: Thomas Costain’s history, The Three Ed ...
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