*EXCELLENT LIFE KEYS* 🔑🗝️
Fri/25th/March/2022
*Francis Reign (Ap & Coach)*
_"Raising excellent agents of change and transformation, well equipped with Truth and Wisdom."_
*UNDERSTANDING THE ACTS AND WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST (64)*
_"Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few"_ (Matthew 7:13-14). First, we need to understand that Jesus is the Door through which all must enter eternal life. There is no other way because He alone is _"the way, the truth and the life"_ (John 14:6). The way to eternal life is restricted to just one avenue - Christ. In this sense, the way is narrow because it is the only way, and relatively few people will go through the narrow gate. Many more will attempt to find an alternative route to God. They will try to get there through false religion, or through self-effort. Those who are "many" will follow the broad road that leads to eternal destruction, while the sheep hear the voice of the Good Shepherd and follow Him along the narrow way to eternal life (John 10:7-11).
While there will be relatively few who go through the narrow gate compared to the many on the broad road, there will still be multitudes who will follow the Good Shepherd. The Apostle John saw this multitude in his vision in Revelation 7:9-10, _"After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, 'Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"_ No amount of self-effort saves us; salvation is only by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. The exhortation to enter is a command to repent and enter the gate and not to just stand and look at it, think about it, or complain that it's too small or too difficult or unjustly narrow. We are to step forward and enter! Then we are to exhort others to enter before it's too late.
*EXCELLENCE KEY* 🗝️
_No amount of self-effort saves us; salvation is only by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ._
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*Excellence is within you. Bring it out >>*
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