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Speaker 2: from finding the narrow road that leads to heaven. Learn
Speaker 2: more about entering the Kingdom of God. In Week fifteen
Speaker 2: of our series Redefined.
Speaker 1: You look at Matthew seven thirteen. He says, enter by
Speaker 1: the narrow gate, for the gate is wide, and the
Speaker 1: way is easy, that leads to destruction. Those who enter
Speaker 1: by it are many geez to all the disciples. There's
Speaker 1: two paths that you need to choose. One is the
Speaker 1: narrow gate. Not many want to go to the narrow gate,
Speaker 1: for the gate is wine, because there's another option. The
Speaker 1: gate is wine and the way is easy, but then
Speaker 1: it leads to destruction. Many picture millions walking that road
Speaker 1: of the easy path to faith. The word that leads
Speaker 1: to destruction if you look at the very root meaning
Speaker 1: in the Greek word that it was used in Matthew
Speaker 1: seven means this causing someone to be completely severed, cut
Speaker 1: off entirely from what could or should have been. This
Speaker 1: is the question you don't want to ask. This is
Speaker 1: the haunting thing that happens to a lot of people
Speaker 1: on their death bend, on their darkest moment, they asked
Speaker 1: the question, Lord, if I just followed you before, what
Speaker 1: could be or what should have been my life? Now
Speaker 1: I've been completely cut off because I've chosen the easy road,
Speaker 1: the wide road, the easy way to faith, a faith
Speaker 1: that is so comfortable. I don't need any commitment, I
Speaker 1: don't need sacrifice. All I need to do is show
Speaker 1: up on church on a Sunday. That's it. A life
Speaker 1: of what could be or what should have been if
Speaker 1: I just followed Christ, if I became a disciple of Jesus,
Speaker 1: not a crowd, not an attendee, part of the disciples
Speaker 1: and dis sermon in the mount who made the decision
Speaker 1: on not choosing the easy road to faith, going through
Speaker 1: the narrow way that leads to life. You see the
Speaker 1: temptation we have today is we see many, many by
Speaker 1: the millions, embracing a kind of faith that requires no sacrifice,
Speaker 1: requires zero commitment, a faith that is comfortable. A face
Speaker 1: that is based on convenience, but it leads to what
Speaker 1: the Bibles is destruction, not is not not not not,
Speaker 1: It is only talking about hell, just talking about a
Speaker 1: state of what could be or what should have been.
Speaker 1: I want you to look upon your own life, and
Speaker 1: I want you to check. Have I chosen the easy path?
Speaker 1: Have I chosen the wide road that requires nothing of me?
Speaker 1: And I can declare myself a Christian. Let's go to church.
Speaker 1: That's it. I'm good. I'm waiting for Jesus to come.
Speaker 1: I'll judge every person who's a sinner, and I'll just
Speaker 1: show up on Sunday and not do anything about my faith.
Speaker 1: Nothing revolutionary, about whatsoever in your life. A face that
Speaker 1: is so consumed with self on what Christ can do
Speaker 1: for me? The easy path, a faith what could be
Speaker 1: or what should have been? So sad to hear so
Speaker 1: many stories of people coming to us as I've heard
Speaker 1: the message. I knew it before. I chose not to
Speaker 1: follow because I saw many walking the easy road, and
Speaker 1: I thought that was it? A life of what could
Speaker 1: be or what should have been. Bible talks about another road,
Speaker 1: for the gate is narrow and the way is hard
Speaker 1: that leads to life, and those who find it are few. Sad.
Speaker 1: Picture two roads, wide, easy, many walk through. It leads
Speaker 1: to what could be or what should have been. But
Speaker 1: there's this road, very narrow, dangerous, muddy. But at the
Speaker 1: end of that road there's life. Life that was mentioned
Speaker 1: in the Bible means this of the absolute fullness of
Speaker 1: life boom. That was the Greek word that was used
Speaker 1: in scripture. Sustained only by God. No people can sustain.
Speaker 1: Nobody can sustain. No material possessions can sustain that life.
Speaker 1: Only God can sustain that life. In Layman's term, it's
Speaker 1: to be fully alive. By Bible says to choose the
Speaker 1: narrow road. If there was one time we've ever tracked,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's even called a track, was
Speaker 1: when we were in Baholland, and I think my eldest
Speaker 1: at the time was four and the second one was
Speaker 1: two years old. I don't know, I forget right. And
Speaker 1: we went there and they said there are seven waterfalls
Speaker 1: that you go through. I never thought it was hard.
Speaker 1: I thought it was easy. I was in my shirt,
Speaker 1: my shorts and my crops. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: even originally somebody gave it to me, right, or if
Speaker 1: it's bought downstairs, right. I wasn't prepared for the track
Speaker 1: if that, if you call that a track seven levels,
Speaker 1: I think it would take you eight to ten hours
Speaker 1: to go through the seven waterfalls. At first it was
Speaker 1: kind of easy level one. But somewhere in level one
Speaker 1: I was carrying my second and I think my eldest
Speaker 1: Timmy was carrying. We weren't prepared for this. The tour
Speaker 1: guide now it gets a little slippery now and with
Speaker 1: your slippers that's no longer holding It was dangerous, right,
Speaker 1: But I remember when we went to level two of
Speaker 1: the waterfalls, all the dangers gone when we saw the view,
Speaker 1: amazing view life, but the narrow road is dangerous. And
Speaker 1: when the guy told us, sir, are you ready for
Speaker 1: level three Undia, reality strikes back. I can't, even though
Speaker 1: I can, but carrying someone and not prepared with my slippers,
Speaker 1: I can't go to level three. We have to go back.
Speaker 3: Some way.
Speaker 1: That's a picture of Christians today, not prepared for the
Speaker 1: road ahead, thinking it's all just about showing up on
Speaker 1: a Sunday wearing the most comfortable slippers to be entertained
Speaker 1: and inspired and be enlightened by the man of God
Speaker 1: who will preach the word that Sunday. No sacrifice, no suffering,
Speaker 1: no commitment. And if ever messages get hard, offended leaves
Speaker 1: the church feels like there's no grace in the preaching.
Speaker 1: But Jesus preached this message. The disciples knew what he
Speaker 1: was saying when he said, you walk the easy path.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a life of what could be
Speaker 1: or should have been. It's going to be your destruction.
Speaker 1: You're going to regret, You're going to cry when you're
Speaker 1: old and say, Lord, if I just follow Lord, if
Speaker 1: I just embrace teaching and the faith that comes with
Speaker 1: the message of the Kingdom, life or death, two options.
Speaker 1: We were giving the narrow gate that leads to the
Speaker 1: fullness of life. Few find it, Few would want to go.
Speaker 1: We've heard these messages. Here come. This leads to life,
Speaker 1: require sacrifice, commitment. Come on, I seen season. Season. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's up with season. I think only Christians
Speaker 1: use that. I sees I know winter, four, spring, summer,
Speaker 1: President diaopa umula Umulan, what season are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Because the narrow road is hard, then it leads to life.
Speaker 1: The elusive joy and life that the world is looking for.
Speaker 1: So they shot every week looking for that life. They'll
Speaker 1: try everything, they get lawyers to fix what's broken, and
Speaker 1: it can't be fixed. The world can't fix it because
Speaker 1: only Jesus can give that life. Are you willing to
Speaker 1: track that narrow gate that leads to life? Not a
Speaker 1: life of what could beer should have been? So many
Speaker 1: stories we've heard through the years of what could be
Speaker 1: or what should have been because we choose not to.
Speaker 1: We choose the easy road, we choose the wide road.
Speaker 1: We choose just going to church Sunday if it did
Speaker 1: not rain, if there's easy parking. Who's preaching this Sunday? Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm not attending a Christianity that's so self centered. I
Speaker 1: think Jesus will cry. Two options. You choose today enters
Speaker 1: through the narrow gate. For why this is the gate
Speaker 1: and broad is the road that leads to destruction and
Speaker 1: men enter through it small it's the game, narrow the
Speaker 1: road that leads to life. Only a few find it.
Speaker 1: Jesus knew the disciples would face such a choice when
Speaker 1: they go down the mountain. They've been inspired, they've heard
Speaker 1: from a great teaching from the Master's storyteller himself, Jesus.
Speaker 1: Now Jesus gives it to them plain and simple too
Speaker 1: options Why easy, narrow heard results are different. Then he says,
Speaker 1: beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing,
Speaker 1: but inwardly are ravenous wolves. Jesus knew what he was
Speaker 1: talking about. Be left alone with the wolves, you die destruction.
Speaker 1: Beware of such teachings. Beware of such teachers who will
Speaker 1: tickle your ears and make you feel light and happy.
Speaker 1: You're preaching a gospel with no power and no content.
Speaker 1: We've said this, We're not after crowds. What if we
Speaker 1: fill this place up? What if Green Hills has seven
Speaker 1: eight thousand members? We couldn't fill up the place anymore.
Speaker 1: We need a bigger space, yet zero impact in the city.
Speaker 1: You know yourselves. I should go home. Has this faith
Speaker 1: really translated into something? Or maybe I've embraced a Christianity
Speaker 1: that has no power in it. You will recognize them
Speaker 1: by their fruits, our graves gathered from thorn bushes or
Speaker 1: figs from thistles. What was he saying? You're saying, be
Speaker 1: careful with the Christianity that's so self centered that it
Speaker 1: has no concern whatsoever with the Kingdom of God. Beware
Speaker 1: of such teachings. Beware of such teachers that will give
Speaker 1: you just moral teachings apart from the power of the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit pakabaka muramocio. All the moral teachings that anybody
Speaker 1: who has no faith in Christ can actually teach you
Speaker 1: makes you feel good Jesus had. Beware of such teachings,
Speaker 1: teaching that's centered just on morality without Christ and a message.
Speaker 1: It's very therapeutic. Jesus is your therapist. Look see Lord
Speaker 1: maybudas Sauum. He's the munchkin. All therapy, all about me,
Speaker 1: all about me, very self. My faith is so personal,
Speaker 1: it's so personal personal. Nobody knows because I accepted it
Speaker 1: as my personal Lord and personal Savior. He's my personal
Speaker 1: imaginary friend that I speak to every night. Nobody knows
Speaker 1: about this. Be very careful with such teachings. He was
Speaker 1: pertaining to the Pharisees. You'll go down, you'll meet them.
Speaker 1: All morality, all external, all changes the outside of the cup,
Speaker 1: but not really dealing what's in the heart. Be very
Speaker 1: careful with such teachings, very terruputing hulang a lung spa music,
Speaker 1: mahat this makes you feel good. Something church makes me
Speaker 1: feel good next week because it's not arapeutic. Jesus had
Speaker 1: a mixture of both. But in light of the Kingdom
Speaker 1: of God. So every healthy tree bears good fruit, but
Speaker 1: the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot
Speaker 1: bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.
Speaker 1: What was Jesus saying, how will you know if the
Speaker 1: brand of faith or Christianity you have is right? Look
Speaker 1: at the fruit. Now? Only you can answer this. Only
Speaker 1: I can answer for my family. I cannot answer for
Speaker 1: yours my effect. But a Laga young scripture. Sin has the.
Speaker 4: Past fifteen weeks disturb us so much that it has
Speaker 4: redefined our marriage, our life, our business?
Speaker 1: Or is this like wow up a church, bangal Jesus
Speaker 1: here my therapy. Or is it the same kind of
Speaker 1: life and pattern of sin and dysfunctional behavior that is
Speaker 1: still alive and living in the relationships that you have
Speaker 1: Because the Gospel has no effect in your life because
Speaker 1: it required no commitment and no sacrifice on your part.
Speaker 1: We have to fight this kind of Christianity to get involved.
Speaker 1: Just like don't translate that to your faith that's Facebook,
Speaker 1: that's not your faith, that's not kingdom thinking. Every tree
Speaker 1: that does not bear good fruit is what cut down
Speaker 1: and thrown into the fire. Jesus was not scaring them.
Speaker 1: Jesus was standing them a future reality. The prayer is
Speaker 1: five years from now, it won't be a conversation like
Speaker 1: this pastor in October. I am people, and I know
Speaker 1: the road that I was going to choose. It should
Speaker 1: have been the narrow road, but I chose the easy
Speaker 1: path and said that message was offensive. I'm not yet ready.
Speaker 1: I'm in a different season, and so I cannot now here.
Speaker 1: I am pastor five years from now, lonely the press
Speaker 1: dysfunctional because I've chosen the easy path of faith, the
Speaker 1: white road. Why did you choose the white road? Pastor
Speaker 1: chose the white road? And also somebody I know in
Speaker 1: Grinnias the white and also this guy and also this
Speaker 1: victory group leader. Many will choose the easy path. The
Speaker 1: message version said, don't be impressed with charisma. Look for
Speaker 1: a character in the preachings. Don't be impressed with eloquent
Speaker 1: words kalaim kalam kadingiam present. Look for a character. Who
Speaker 1: preachers are is the main thing, not what they say,
Speaker 1: look at the fruit. Jesus is saying in the same
Speaker 1: way a person can profess I'm a Christian and I'm
Speaker 1: a citizen of the Kingdom. You can say what you
Speaker 1: want to say, but I look at who you really are.
Speaker 1: It does not translate a genuine leader who never exploit
Speaker 1: your emotions or your pocketbook. This diseased trees with their
Speaker 1: bad apples are going to be chopped down and burned.
Speaker 1: Makes me remember how sacred it is to preach the word,
Speaker 1: and how it's every responsibility of a Christian and a
Speaker 1: pastor like myself to preach what Jesus preached, no matter
Speaker 1: how hard, no matter how offensive, no matter how disturbing.
Speaker 1: It has to be preached because we don't want you
Speaker 1: going back saying it should be or could have been
Speaker 1: if I just but rather five years from now you're saying, Lord,
Speaker 1: I made that commitment. It was hard. Redefined us to
Speaker 1: go back to the drawing board. Check our lifestyle, check
Speaker 1: our values, check if we're making an impact in society.
Speaker 1: Are we doing something about The Gospel made me cry,
Speaker 1: made me wept of how shallow my faith is in Christ.
Speaker 1: Five years ago that October, that preaching did something to me.
Speaker 1: That scripture did something in my heart because I knew
Speaker 1: that day, which is today. I've been walking the easy
Speaker 1: path of faith, a road that would lead to what
Speaker 1: could be or what should have been. I hope it's
Speaker 1: not what if. But I did the power of God.
Speaker 1: I did chose the narrow crowd j c Rasis. Repentance
Speaker 1: and faith in Christ and holiness of life have never
Speaker 1: been fashionable. It will never be fashionable. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: it's not fashionable to be a Christian, to be part
Speaker 1: of the citizen of the Kingdom of God has never
Speaker 1: been fashionable. Try it, try it, go to the party,
Speaker 1: say bro cool thin, sabi musambergada virgin. It's never been
Speaker 1: fashionable in the language of today's world. It will never
Speaker 1: be sexy. Never. That's why Dave cannot have a reality
Speaker 1: TV show because his life in the world's eyes boring.
Speaker 1: He sleeps by ten at nine pm, he reads a
Speaker 1: Bible story to Sean to put him to sleep. He
Speaker 1: dates his wife. They talk about God, they talk about
Speaker 1: the things that that mature couples do. There's no affair,
Speaker 1: there's no second wife, there's nothing like that. There's no
Speaker 1: plates flying when they're fighting, nothing controversial to be shown
Speaker 1: on live TV. But this is what it means to
Speaker 1: be part of the Kingdom of God. Never fashionable, and
Speaker 1: I don't have to because when you choose the narrow road,
Speaker 1: it gives you life, life to the fullest. John ten
Speaker 1: ten Jesus came that I might have life, and have
Speaker 1: life to the full, to be fully alive, to come
Speaker 1: to a point, Lord, what I have now. I'm fully alive.
Speaker 1: I don't need anything else. I just want to serve
Speaker 1: you because you are my life. The white game, the
Speaker 1: easy one lead to could have been? Or what should do?
Speaker 1: What should be? That regrets the questions? What if I
Speaker 1: just obeyed God became a follower of Jesus, If I
Speaker 1: just made that decision years ago, my marriage won't be
Speaker 1: like this, my family won't be like this. What is
Speaker 1: said is millions would choose the easy path, millions even
Speaker 1: among Christians. Millions. I know because I'm a pastor. I
Speaker 1: see even to a point of I can't even give
Speaker 1: my ten percent. It's hard, so hard to die, so hard,
Speaker 1: then choose the easy path. I don't want to look
Speaker 1: for disciples, you know, I just show up in church Sunday. Okay,
Speaker 1: some advice, counseling junkies, bounding, pounding, pounding, bounding, bounding, counseling,
Speaker 1: don counseling in the Magann counseling, bounding, bounding disciple. You're
Speaker 1: choosing the easy path. Why you cry? Somebody listens to you, relief.
Speaker 1: This is Jesus here my therapy HM. And when given
Speaker 1: a choice, will you now repent? Will you now do
Speaker 1: something about it? They may the intentions, Wow, how about
Speaker 1: God's kingdom? How about stop looking at my needs now
Speaker 1: and start looking at this broken world? And have given
Speaker 1: this message that is life transforming, so that I could
Speaker 1: share it to others, tell them the story of your
Speaker 1: walk and your journey in that narrow road that led
Speaker 1: to life, and not follow the millions as we end.
Speaker 1: We leave the room today in five minutes time. Two options,
Speaker 1: nothing else TODs A road that's wide and easy, a
Speaker 1: road millions embraced. A Sunday Christian, a Christian by paper religion,
Speaker 1: Christian that requires no commitment or sacrifice, nothing that only
Speaker 1: requires of Christ to look after my need, so that
Speaker 1: he is my ultimate psychiatrist and my moral teacher, who
Speaker 1: would guide me and give me good advice, but never
Speaker 1: really doing something about the message of the Kingdom of God,
Speaker 1: the easy road that three, five, ten years from now.
Speaker 1: This is the conversation what if it should have been?
Speaker 1: It could have been? Or too today October twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: To walk out this door and say, Lord, I'm choosing
Speaker 1: the narrow road, dangerous, dirty muddy requires commitment, requires full
Speaker 1: attention and focus, requires a lot of redefining, reviewing of life,
Speaker 1: lifestyle values, vision, changing the culture of just trying to
Speaker 1: go to church every Sunday. And that's it. Redefining that
Speaker 1: and say, Lord, I choose to be a follower, a
Speaker 1: disciple of Jesus. That would lead to life. That is
Speaker 1: the message today. It's bolt on my hands to spray. Lord.
Speaker 1: It is the prayer of my heart that everyone, not
Speaker 1: one in this room, would choose the easy path. It
Speaker 1: lures us no commitment, no sacrifice here. Why look at
Speaker 1: all your friends they're here. Come open or spiritual eyes
Speaker 1: to see that the invitation really sounds like, come to
Speaker 1: this life. That would lead to a life of regret,
Speaker 1: of questions of what could be or what should have been?
Speaker 1: Or may we see that.
Speaker 5: And may we choose the narrow game, the hard road,
Speaker 5: the rocky road, the muddy road, the stony road, the
Speaker 5: steep road, the road that's so dangerous.
Speaker 1: That nobody wants because it would require full attention, focus, dedication, commitment.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the road, it would lead
Speaker 1: to life. Life, everlasting life, eternal life, full sustained by God,
Speaker 1: a life that no money, no millionaire or billionaire could
Speaker 1: ever buy.
Speaker 3: A life that satisfies, a life that changes marriages, a
Speaker 3: life the changes relationships, a life found in Christ, a
Speaker 3: kind of peace that the world cannot give, a supernatural
Speaker 3: kind of life.
Speaker 1: I want you to pray to the Lord right now
Speaker 1: today it is your decision. Do they choose nor do
Speaker 1: they were given two options? Also today we know we're
Speaker 1: walking in either one of the road. For those walking
Speaker 1: in that easy road, the wide road, Jesus, we repent, Lord,
Speaker 1: we turn back. We go back to that fork on
Speaker 1: that road. We go back. We repent Lord, that we
Speaker 1: choose to walk the narrow road. The life the world
Speaker 1: is looking for, Lord is in that narrow road. Lord,
Speaker 1: I pray that I will be fine, faith that I
Speaker 1: will be fine, faithful as I walk that narrow, hard road, muddy,
Speaker 1: stony steep told me, I understand what I've entered into.
Speaker 1: It's not a Christianity that is so easy, that would
Speaker 1: require nothing of me. But when I choose to follow Jesus,
Speaker 1: it would affect every area of my life. But Lord,
Speaker 1: I know, at the end of the day, would lead
Speaker 1: to life. So I choose the narrow road. Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: empower me as I walk this road. Teach me to obey,
Speaker 1: Teach me to walk in faith every single day of
Speaker 1: my life.
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