Matthew 7:13 NASB
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.
The Greek word translated "enter" is a command to complete the action to come into someplace.
And in order to enter, the person is to go through the narrow or strait gate or door. The idea is this route presents difficulty rather than ease.
If we have two choices, both promising the same reward, but one is easy and the other is difficult, we are to know that the easy way leads to destruction, but even so, many (those unenlightened by God's word) choose the easy path to destruction.
Does this verse teach a works based salvation? We are the ones doing a deed! We are picking the path.
But what is the path. Works or Faith? Faith!!
Any old kind of faith? Nope. Live rather than dead faith, faith from which faithfulness flows. Ah, there is the rub. If our faith lacks the "deep root within ourselves" our heart-felt commitment to follow Christ, no matter what, for our easy faith would take us to the broad gate.
God it?
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.
The Greek word translated "enter" is a command to complete the action to come into someplace.
And in order to enter, the person is to go through the narrow or strait gate or door. The idea is this route presents difficulty rather than ease.
If we have two choices, both promising the same reward, but one is easy and the other is difficult, we are to know that the easy way leads to destruction, but even so, many (those unenlightened by God's word) choose the easy path to destruction.
Does this verse teach a works based salvation? We are the ones doing a deed! We are picking the path.
But what is the path. Works or Faith? Faith!!
Any old kind of faith? Nope. Live rather than dead faith, faith from which faithfulness flows. Ah, there is the rub. If our faith lacks the "deep root within ourselves" our heart-felt commitment to follow Christ, no matter what, for our easy faith would take us to the broad gate.
God it?
