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Choosing the Right Path: The Way of the Christian

Explore Matthew 7:13-20 to understand the Christian's choice between the Broad and Narrow Way, gates, destinations, and true vs. false prophets. Discover the qualities and pitfalls of each path to guide your spiritual journey.

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Choosing the Right Path: The Way of the Christian

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  1. THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5 – 7 Study XII

  2. Study XII A Christian’s Choice Part I: choosing the right way and the right prophets (Matthew 7:13-20)

  3. The Broad and Narrow Way

  4. A Christian’s Choices: Two ways (7:13-14) • Two ways. a. The Narrow Way • Clearly marked boundaries • Hard to follow • Few companions, who are: Convicted Subservient Faithful Loving Dedicated Abstinent Evangelistic Prayerful

  5. A Christian’s Choices: Two ways (7:13-14) • Two ways. b. The Broad Way • Spacious • Easy • Plenty of companions, who are: Superficial Mechanically religious Popular Falsely ambitious Sensuous Morally lax

  6. A Christian’s Choices: Two ways (7:13-14) 2. Two gates. a. The Narrow Gate • Sometimes hard to find • Leads to the hard road • Requires leaving baggage behind, Sins Self-righteousness Pride Sometimes even family Covetousness Selfish ambitions

  7. A Christian’s Choices: Two ways (7:13-14) 2. Two gates. b. The Wide Gate • Easily found • Leads to the easy road • Permits a lot of luggage: bring along Sins Self-righteousness Pride Like-minded companions

  8. A Christian’s Choices: Two ways (7:13-14) 3. Two destinations. a. Life • Begins here. • Perfected hereafter. • The goal of the Scheme of Redemption.

  9. A Christian’s Choices: Two ways (7:13-14) 3. Two destinations. b. Destruction • Everything bad will be destroyed in hell. • Hell is the ultimate destiny of the disobedient. • These choices are repeated often in Scripture: “… life and good, death and evil, blessing and curse.” (Deut. 30:15, 19) “Prospering and perishing” (Ps. 1)

  10. A Christian’s Choices: Two kinds of prophets –true and false (7:15-19) • These words of Jesus teach us that: a. False prophets exist. b. A standard exists by which to distinguish prophets. c. The Bible will tell us how to “try the spirits” (1 Jn. 4:1).

  11. A Christian’s Choices: Two kinds of prophets –true and false (7:15-19) 2. Jesus also warns us about false teachers: a. They appear to be sheep. b. They are in reality wolves. c. Jesus describes such people in John 10:11-13.

  12. A Christian’s Choices: Two kinds of prophets –true and false (7:15-19) 3. Jesus shows us how to recognize false prophets: a. Judge the tree by its fruits. b. Judge doctrine by its soundness. c. Character and message are both important.

  13. End of Study XII.

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