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Difficult Demands from God

Difficult Demands from God. Matthew 7:13,14. “You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. 14  But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.

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Difficult Demands from God

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  1. Difficult Demands from God

  2. Matthew 7:13,14

  3. “You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way.

  4. 14 But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.

  5. Two Gates

  6. Matthew 7:13

  7. “You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way

  8. The wide gate is the gate that most will enter

  9. 1. It does notrequire giving upanything

  10. 2. It is the way of leastresistance

  11. The narrow gate represents the beginning, or startingpoint to a very narrow path

  12. 1. It requires self denial& cross carrying

  13. Luke 14:26,27

  14. “If you want to be my disciple, you must hate everyone else by comparison—your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and

  15. sisters—yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple.

  16. 27 And if you do not carry your own cross and follow me, you cannot be my disciple.

  17. 2. There is no room in which to carry baggage with you

  18. Matthew 5:8

  19. God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God.

  20. Two Ways

  21. The broad way is spacious & will nottake one to heaven

  22. 1. There is spiritual blindnesson the way to destruction

  23. II Cor4:3,4

  24. If the Good News we preach is hidden behind a veil, it is hidden only from people who are perishing.

  25. 4 Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News.

  26. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

  27. 2. The heart is spiritually dead& follows Satan

  28. Eph2:1-3

  29. Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins.

  30. 2 You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil—the commander of the powers in the unseen world.

  31. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God.

  32. 3 All of us used to live that way, following the passionate desires and inclinations of our sinful nature.

  33. By our very nature we were subject to God’s anger, just like everyone else.

  34. The narrow way is a difficultway

  35. Matthew 7:14

  36. But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.

  37. 1. The narrow road is compressed

  38. Isaiah 35:8

  39. And a great road will go through that once deserted land. It will be named the Highway of Holiness. Evil-minded people will never travel on it.

  40. It will be only for those who walk in God’s ways; fools will never walk there.

  41. 2. The narrow road is difficult

  42. Luke 14:28

  43. “But don’t begin until you count the cost. For who would begin construction of a building without first calculating the cost to see if there is enough money to finish it?

  44. Two Groups

  45. The Many

  46. 1. It is the natural flowof society

  47. 2. It is travel by default

  48. The Few

  49. 1. One is required to dosomething, not just believesomething

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