Welcome everybody, welcome to our Rancho campus and our West Covina campus.

Can we say hi to them everybody?

Yeah!

We love you guys.

Hey, so, you remember a few weeks ago, Pastor Jeff, he told us that he didn't quite understand the gift of tongues.

Remember that?

Remember that?

Like, you know, like, hey, if you have a gift, pray for me, but he doesn't have it.

Remember that?

Do you remember that?

Okay, well, we've got evidence.

Otherwise.

I'm kidding.

He's having a great time.

I mean, he's on a mission.

I mean, he's doing a lot.

So keep praying for him in Africa.

Have a good time.

And right there, he's singing Shona.

So it's not tongues, but it's Shona.

Okay?

That's all I just wanted to know.

Okay?

All right, here we go.

Matthew chapter 7.

Rangel Wesco.

We're in Matthew chapter 7, verse 13.

My.

dad worked very very long days in fact he'd usually come home late okay but there are times he would surprise us okay this was interesting the times would surprise us would be out you know with my friends our neighbors we had like a dual complex and sometimes we'd be next door eating what we call pancakes but our language was kabbalah gala there were little things like this that looked like pancakes or would be eating roasted cassava or having fun playing with lions and zebras and stuff i'm kidding Oh that's good all right I'm kidding but it would be and so we had a house kind of on top of a hill right and so and there was a road going down and so sometimes we could see cars coming up and and so when when one of us or our neighbors saw that Toyota Hiace that's a big old van right coming up the hill they would scream he's coming you and they would run with some of us we had like these little routes that we had where would there was one in between like a dog kennel there was one in between a bush there was one on the back and there was one on top of the house where would all run okay because we knew it was coming and would jump into the house and pretend like we had a book and we're reading or we would be sweeping why because my dad If you came home and you were doing nothing, you were lazy.

He was brought up by the British, okay?

And everything was regimented, okay?

You had to be doing something all the time.

Very interesting.

And so, we're in a series called Radio Not, and we're talking about the last teachings of Jesus.

The first week we learned from Pastor Jeff that Jesus is going to ask you and I, how did we use our resources?

You, not just money, you.

How did you use the gifts God gave you?

Your talents, your gifts, your everything.

Second week, last week, Pastor Don asked the question, if Jesus came back this Friday, okay, which was last Friday, would you be ready?

Okay, and she compared and contrasted the five foolish virgins and the wise ones.

Okay, you can find all those on YouTube if you did not watch them.

Okay, this passage today is not from Matthew 25.

And in fact, it's not the last words of Jesus.

However, we thought this would be a good...

passage for us to talk about you know how can we be ready for Jesus so in Matthew chapter 7 verse 13 Rancho Wesco I hope you're with us here we go okay Matthew chapter 7 verse 13 It says this, Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to distraction, and there are many who enter through it.

For the gate is narrow and the way is constricted that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Okay, that's the NASB.

The NLT is a bit more direct.

Okay, we're going to read from the NLT.

That's the New Living Translation.

Here it goes.

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.

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

Okay?

So now I hope that you've got your Bible, and you've got your highlighters, because there's going to be a lot of highlighting to do.

Okay, are you ready?

Okay, here we go.

Right, Joe?

Let's go.

Here we go.

Okay?

There are four features that we're going to be looking at.

Okay?

Two gates, two paths.

to traveler types and to destinations okay it's gonna be right here this is a cool picture right here okay so we have two gates we've got two paths there are two types of travelers that i want to ask you to have in your imagination okay and we've got two destinations okay so the two gates a gate access okay so we've got a narrow gate and the narrow gate is probably small short and difficult to enter it's not enticing because it does not look pretty in fact you might have to enter the gate alone you might need to stoop real low and crawl on your knees and enter the gate it requires intention it requires decision okay the white gate on the other hand is big and it's easy to enter There's nothing to stop you.

You can just waltz in with your friends and have a good time.

It looks very, very pretty.

And it doesn't take much thought.

It's enticing.

It looks beautiful and bougie.

Okay?

Okay?

But both these gates are open.

Okay, so two gates.

Second, everyone say two gates.

Okay, there's two roads.

Say two roads.

Okay, it's a journey.

The narrow road.

This is the small road.

It's small in width and maybe dusty.

Might have some...

prickles it has hills and valleys it has restrictions you know it's not very very nice okay and it seems to force you to focus it's probably has a fence these are just in my imagination and it helps keep you on the road the white road on the other hand ah look at it gold beautiful nice you want to run on this beautiful road right it's very very nice it looks attractive okay so you got two gates you got two roads you've got two travelers imagine those okay on the left side you're gonna have very few travelers on the right side you're going to have a lot of people traveling that road okay the few because it doesn't look fancy no one wants to hit a gate that looks like it's not really a gate and you have to scoop in to get into okay um however so you got few people traveling there but on the white road that looks bougie and nice and it looks very nice everybody wants to go to that wide road because you can come with your friends who don't really care you just run to the gate okay uh in fact luke says that the wide road is easy you can just go in okay so you've got the few and the many two types of travelers then you've got two destinations one looks ah you want to be there but you don't know that you can get there that one you don't want to get there okay one is life one is distraction okay so you with me so you got two gates you've got two roads everyone say two gates got two roads two types of travelers and you've got two destinations and one is life okay the one is life according to Jesus and narrow gate leads to life and then the other one leads to distraction okay so in general fewer people do very difficult things so if you're at rancho and you're at westco i want you to participate in this as well okay here we go how many people have run 400 meters just around the field once 400 meters come on keep your hands up come on 400 meters i want to see your hands come on hey there you go okay how many people have run uh let's see i've run a mile okay sweet good more people run a mother than 400 meters okay that's great okay Look around West Corancho, look around your room, okay?

Okay, look around your campus, okay?

How many people have run a 5K?

Okay?

How many people have run a half marathon?

Okay, fewer people.

How many people have run a full marathon?

Okay.

Less people.

How many people have run an ultra marathon?

That's like 50 miles.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Wow.

Right, John Weston, look around you.

Anybody done an Ironman?

Oh, okay.

I don't know what's happening at right, John Weston, but okay.

cool so that's your you should be on one one of you next time we ask this you should have done an iron man okay so fewer people do you want by the way she just won right there let's go all right guys just saying okay here we go fewer people do difficult things the gate is smaller the road is narrower because you've got to eat in order to train like that amen So why does Jesus talk about the narrow gate and the wide gate and the wide path and all this stuff?

Well, Matthew chapter 7 verse 13 to 14 comes at the end of an important sermon.

The best sermon ever written.

The Sermon on the Mount.

Okay?

Best sermon.

It starts in Matthew chapter 5 and ends in Matthew chapter 7.

So what we're going to do is I'm going to really reduce this for you.

We're going to summarize it.

Okay?

Matthew chapter...

I'm going to run really fast here, so really pay attention.

Okay?

Here we go.

Matthew chapter 5, verse 3 to 12 is about the blessed life, the Beatitudes.

Jesus begins by describing the best life, which is contrary to worldly values.

It's about humility, meekness, purity, mercy, and a hunger for righteousness.

Then secondly, Matthew chapter 5, verse 17 to 48 is about true righteousness that exceeds that of religious leaders or the Pharisees.

Are you with me?

Jesus calls his followers to a righteousness that goes beyond legalism.

He redefines obedience by focusing on heart-level transformation rather than external conformity.

How are you doing in regards to anger versus murder?

Last verse is adultery, love for your enemies versus just loving your friends.

Matthew chapter 6 verses 1 to 24 is about devotion to God alone.

Jesus warns against performing...

righteousness for human approval so when you're fasting do you want everybody to see you if you're praying do you want to walk around everybody sees that you're praying okay I've seen some people like that they walk down the street everybody sees them praying okay Jesus then teaches us how to pray he challenges people to store their treasures where in heaven that's it rather than on earth to serve God alone rather than money this section encourages the rejection of worldly security and comforts for eternal priorities.

Okay number four Matthew 6 25 to 34 is about trusting in God for his provision.

We put him first in everything instead of worrying about earthly needs Jesus says seek first what?

The kingdom of God.

Good job.

Yeah I like that.

Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.

It encourages us to put our faith in God's provision.

Are you with me?

Okay.

And then Jesus concludes this whole sermon and he says, never think too highly of yourselves when you point out sin in others.

He reminds us that our heavenly father is good and he longs to hear our prayers.

Then he talks about the golden rule, treat others as you want to be treated.

And he concludes with three illustrations, the narrow gate and the wide gate, a tree and its fruit and two foundations, right?

One house is built on sand and the other house is built on the rock.

Okay, so after laying out these radical demands of discipleship, Jesus presents us with a stark choice.

The wide road, which is a wide, easy, popular road that leads to distraction, or the narrow road, which is difficult and requires true commitment and leads to life.

And it's the Sermon on the Mount.

That's your narrow road.

Are you with me?

Okay.

So the tension we have here, the tension that we have, because he says that this narrow road leads to life.

What does he mean by life?

Because we all have different definitions of what life is.

Okay.

What does it mean to have life?

We all want a happy life.

Yeah.

We want happy.

The destination we all want.

We want a life that is.

has meaning, that has purpose, that has happiness, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Right?

However, many of us think that real life is the American dream, which is not bad, right?

It's cool to have the American dream or to have a vision for that.

But does God's definition of life align with ours?

Does God's definition of life align with ours?

Whether you're a Christian or not, you must address this question because it will affect whether you are on the narrow road or the wide road.

And this will determine, ready or not, when Jesus comes back, are you ready for him?

See, the early church believed in the imminent return of Jesus.

And as such, guess what they did?

Their work was urgent and they changed the world.

They took Jesus' sermon on the mount so seriously that they changed the world by the way they lived.

In fact, 1 Peter 4, 7 says this in the NIV.

The end, just listen to this, right?

The end of all things is near.

Therefore, be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.

Then James chapter 5 verse 7 to 8 says this, Therefore be patient, my brothers and sisters, until what?

The coming of the Lord.

The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient until it gets the early and late rains.

You too be patient.

Strengthen your hearts for what?

I can't hear you.

The coming of the Lord.

Now remember, the Bible was not written.

to us it was written for us and that is very very important so you have to think about what they're saying they believed Jesus was coming back in their time in their time so for them it was like we gotta get the work of Jesus done right now so they didn't care if they died okay ready or not Jesus was coming back at any time so they had to get there was urgency in their work So the question I have for you, do you have an urgency for the things of God?

Do you have an urgency for the things of God?

Because the early church lived in urgency, they truly lived and made an eternal impact.

That's why you are seated in this chair.

That is why you're sitting in this chair.

Because of the early church, they made an eternal impact.

See, the world defines life as happiness.

Life with no don't worry about a thing, right?

There's no suffering.

You have a house, two cars, two kids, savings in the bank, vacations, watching TV, sports, massages, hanging with your people, smoking a cigar on the pontoon, whatever that is, okay?

what is that song by little big town it says that on the pontoon making waves and catching rays upon the roof jumping out the back don't act like you don't want to party in slow motion whatever okay so we just want to party it may include periodically coming to church listening to the than living with no immediate action or responding to what God said.

It may involve getting high, getting drunk, sleeping with whomever you want to, making lots of money and doing whatever you want because there are no restrictions.

Wide road.

It's all about you.

If you are to compare your life with the life of the early church, are you and I living the way Jesus told us to?

If Peter...

Andrew, John, James, Phoebe, who else?

Stephen, Lydia, all these people in the New Testament.

If you were to sit around with them at a table having dinner and you were to share stories about how you made an impact in the world, what would your story look like compared to them?

What does it mean to have life?

Second, what is our understanding of truth?

And Pastor Jeff has shared at length about this.

Our society has taken the wide road concerning our understanding of truth.

This is a crazy statement that you hear everywhere now.

Okay?

I have my truth.

My truth.

This is called relativism, which states a claim is true relative to the beliefs.

or the valuations of an idea or group that accepts it.

It's made true for those who accept it by the very act of acceptance.

That simply means I just accept something.

If I want something to be true, I accept that it's true and it becomes true.

that doesn't make any sense okay post-modernism rejects reality it says this reality is a social construction language creates reality and what is real for one linguistic group may be unreal for another so what rules what is real for my people in africa in uganda may not be real for you i don't know death is death right it doesn't matter where you are right it doesn't matter where you are In a short video, Sean McDowell asks a progressive pastor, Brandon Robertson, to explain Jesus in 30 seconds.

Brandon says, Jesus is Lord and the one I seek to conform my life to.

And then he keeps going on.

Then at the end of the video, he says, as far as what Lord means, we can get into that later.

Okay, guys, if you're a pastor and the word Lord is there, whether it's capitalized or not, there are only two meanings.

One is master, Adonai, and the other is Jehovah.

What else can it mean?

It's now, he's made it subjective.

Today, people tend to interpret scripture subjectively, especially in regards to morality, what is right and wrong, for example, and in regards to sexuality and identity.

The wide road philosophy is that you can have your truth, which is based on how you feel on that day.

So then by deciding what and what not to believe, you can make up your own reality and you can have what you believe.

Many Christians today, some of you might be sitting here, some of you might be watching online, some of you might be on your campuses.

Some of you have blended worldly views of sexuality and identity with biblical theology.

This is what the Samaritans did.

They mixed paganism and...

judaism and so when jesus meets the samaritan woman in john chapter 4 what does he tell her you samaritans worship a god you don't know because they've mixed it all up by the way if you struggle with all these things i'm talking about listen i don't know what else to tell you but man we love you we love you deeply and god loves you but we've got to tell you the truth we've got to tell you the truth you Because we love you.

Because we love you.

There are many Christians who believe that all religions are true.

And they are fundamentally the same.

And so there's a tension.

The narrowness in God's view of what a blessed life is.

Narrowness of truth given to us in scripture.

And what the world believes is truth.

There's a conflict there of what truth and life is.

And you think it started with Jesus?

Yes, it did.

It's not just in the New Testament.

Go back to the Old Testament.

God gives the Israelites the law to help them be separate people.

You follow the law, you have a relationship with God.

That's a narrow road, the Ten Commandments.

Narrow, narrow, right?

If you want to be holy, you follow the law.

Compared to all the nations around them who are doing crazy things, that was narrow.

And God calls you and I to be the same, to be holy, to be set apart, to be sanctified.

So when the bride shows up, guess what?

You are ready.

Amen?

You are ready.

And this only happens on the narrow road.

Only happens on the narrow road as you obey him, as you live for him, as God's word works in you, as the Holy Spirit begins to work in you.

Okay, everyone breathe in.

Okay, how do we apply all this today?

Okay, ready or not, if Jesus was to come back, number one, if you're taking notes, you want to be found on the narrow gate or in the narrow gate.

Okay.

By the way, this is not an option.

Because Jesus says, enter.

He doesn't say, hmm, maybe if you enter here, you'll have life.

He just says, enter.

Okay.

If you want to end up blessed with eternal life, with a life that brings real meaning, attached to objective truth and reality, Jesus says, enter the narrow gate.

In Luke, he says, strive to enter.

In other words.

The wide gate is going to be very tempting.

The narrow gate is going to be...

It's not so inviting.

It doesn't look very, as I always say, bougie.

So you've got to look for it.

You've got to look for it until you find it.

Strive to enter.

This gate is the access to true life.

Matthew Henry says, conversion and regeneration are at this gate.

Amen?

Jesus said it this way, blessed are the poor in spirit.

For theirs is the kingdom of God.

Blessed are you when you realize that you're empty and you're a sinner.

For yours is the kingdom of God.

And it goes on and says, blessed are those who mourn, for they'll be comforted.

If you repent of your sins, you will be comforted.

That's narrow.

The blessed life starts when you realize two things.

The consciousness of our emptiness.

I'm going to read that slowly.

The blessed life starts when we realize two things.

The consciousness of our emptiness, are you with me?

And the sorrow of our sin.

In other words, we are nothing without God and we are sinners.

The small gate is too small to bring one's big head with all your honors and your self-confidence and your worldview and your reputation and your knowledge and your wealth.

The only way to get in is to go down on your knees because no one can enter unless they are stripped of everything.

That's it.

And many of us are not willing to do that.

So you've got, when you get to narrow gate, you've got to take off anything.

That jacket represents your pride, represents...

your stubbornness for those of you might be here and you're like you've heard the gospel several times maybe there's something in your life that you're just not wanting to step over you've got to lay it down and then you've got to bow down to the truth and walk and kneel through the narrow gate because on the other side is eternal life amen that's it No faith holds out a promise of eternal salvation for the world that the cross and resurrection of Jesus do.

Pilate stood in front of Jesus.

He didn't recognize him.

Remember, the gate is small.

You can miss it.

And Pilate did not see the truth standing right in front of him.

Jesus is the only way to God.

He is the Son of God.

He rose and died again.

If Jesus died and rose again, historically we know that he is not in the grave.

If you're not a Christian here today and you're watching, you've got a problem.

There is no grave.

There is no body in the grave.

So you've got to make a decision.

If he said he went to heaven and he said he's coming back, So if your end goal is an abundant life, a blessed life, whether now or when you die, which you could die before he comes back, when Jesus comes, there is only one option.

Enter the narrow gate.

That's it.

Number two, ready or not, you want to be found on the narrow road.

I would like Jesus to find me on the narrow road.

This road constitutes living out the Beatitudes and the rest of the Bible.

Okay?

Not out of religiosity, but out of the fact that you love God and you love your neighbor.

So if you're a Christian, the life you live should be hard.

And I don't mean go out and live like a monk out in the desert or whatever.

That's what I'm saying.

What I'm saying is the Christian life is one of sacrifice, dying to self.

picking up your cross daily.

The narrow road means intentionality in becoming like Jesus, which means the natural desires in you must be continually or constantly dying as Jesus' desires are growing more and more in you.

When Matthew says narrow, the Greek word there is tethlimene, which means to press, to hem in, to get afflicted.

It references self-denial and the practice of caring one's cross.

Who wants to do that voluntarily?

I don't because it's hard.

It is difficult.

C.S.

Lewis says it this way.

When he, Jesus said, be perfect, he meant it.

He meant that you must go in for the full treatment.

It's hard.

But the sort of compromise you're hunkering after is harder.

It is harder to be on the wide road than on the narrow road.

That's what he's saying.

It's better for you to be on the narrow road.

Here is the full treatment, church.

You must live like the Sermon on the Mount.

Live a life contrary to worldly views, worldly values.

You should be chasing after humility, meekness, purity, mercy, and a hunger for righteousness.

You must be living in obedience, focusing on heart-level transformation, rejecting worldly security and comforts.

It means submission to truth revealed in the Bible.

in scripture because truth is narrow guys truth is narrow in nature in fact pastor jeff always says every so often the real god will contradict you yeah he will contradict you on the narrow path is where sanctification happens and god peels off your old nature true discipleship is found on the narrow path the narrow way conforms you to the image of the son christ the son by the power of the holy spirit to the glory of god the father you know yeah amen it looks narrow from the outside looking in but it gives life this is a good example i thought this was a good example i think it's funny i don't know this is what i think okay it's like rugby if you play rugby most people play rugby they think rugby is rough okay Those of you who know have played rugby, and there's a lot of blood in rugby.

There's just stuff going on.

But when you're in there, you're like, oh, oh, oh, it's a manly sport, oh.

Right?

You want to be a man, right?

For those of you who know that, you know, home improvement, oh, oh, right?

And then you look at football.

I don't know what, yeah, like, I don't know.

There's no blood there.

I don't know.

Is that fun?

They are wearing all protected helmets.

I'm just.

Sorry, I had to do that.

Okay.

Narrow road.

You got to serve.

How do you get on narrow path?

You serve.

You give yourself away.

You obey God's word.

You get into community where people sharpen you.

What are you giving up?

What are you giving up?

How hard is life for you as you peel off your old self?

Read the Sermon on the Mount.

Number three, ready or not, you want to be found with the few.

Donald Carson says, the narrow way cannot be pursued as long as we are motivated by the desire to please men, the mass of men.

If your desire is to please a bunch of people, you're not going to be ready when Jesus comes.

In other words, if you're a Christian living as though you're on the white path, you're headed for destruction.

If you let anger, lust.

unforgiveness greed sensuality worldly values and marriage and identity if you're led by your eyes instead of scripture if you're led by the secular calendar instead of god's calendar you're on the wide path first john 5 9 says we know that we are children of god and the whole world is under the control of the evil one children of god few the world many Who is your number one influencer?

Many of us know more songs about Taylor Swift than if I asked you to quote Psalm 23, you would have no idea.

If I said, quote, something from the Sermon on the Mount, you would have no idea.

Psalm 1, would you know that?

Or maybe you know more Elvis songs.

I don't know where you're at.

I don't know.

Okay?

Many of you are influenced more by pop culture than by scripture.

Oh, your number one desire should be the audience of one.

Pull yourself away from the wide road.

If you're a Christian and you kind of took a shortcut to the wide road from the narrow road, get back to the wide road.

Amen?

Now, I want to show you a very important video, a testimony of a friend of mine.

who was walking a wide road and she, this is a very powerful testimony, and she has taken so much bravery and courage to do this video.

But it's going to show you what it means when you submit yourself to God and the truth of the Word of God.

Let's check this out.

I come from a divorced family.

In fact, I don't ever remember my parents ever being married.

My biological father was very...

mentally abusive, and he was very detached also.

My stepfather was very emotionally distant.

I mean, he had no emotion at all, and he made sure that I knew that I was gonna grow up to be stupid.

I never felt beautiful, never felt like I was anything to anybody.

I was raped by someone I thought that was safe.

And growing up, I didn't want to have anything.

to do with men.

I was a lesbian for a very long time.

I felt safe with women and I really wanted it to happen.

I would ask God, how can this be so wrong?

It feels so good.

It feels so right.

I just wanted to feel loved and like I belonged somewhere, but it never...

It never happened.

And after my heart was completely devastated and my emotions were raw, Jesus spoke into my life.

and I knew I had to come back.

So I started going to church with my twin sister, and I was, church was unsafe for me.

I didn't, I sat in the back, and then my sister, she moved to Lake Havasu, Arizona, and so here I was by myself, and this is when I found One and All Church.

I, when I came to One and All for the very first time, I parked outside the parking lot, and because I wanted to just park.

I could get to the sanctuary as fast as I could without being noticed.

I could sit and just watch and listen to the sermon.

And so after a while I started coming and there was a time when I was, you know, there was prayer time to come up and ask for prayer.

So I did and I was waiting for a woman and there was Pastor Michael.

And I'm like, really?

A man?

He comes over?

And I'm like, oh my gosh.

So that was the first time that I ever opened up to a man.

It was with Pastor Michael.

And he was so nice about it.

He was so, he was just, it changed my life.

And then I met Pastor Jeff.

And he was pretty amazing to me because when I shared a little bit of my story and I told him that I felt like church was unsafe, he was surprised that I would say something like that.

A lot of homosexuals, a lot of gay people think that church is unsafe.

And he was all like, no, that's not the right way to go.

And that's not one and all church.

Then I met Pastor Ron and went through some counseling.

And I'm still in counseling, but I'm with Jill now, who is just wonderful.

When walking that narrow road for Jesus Christ, yeah, it's narrow and it's hard.

And when I am tempted on that road, my heart.

is for Jesus because I would much rather be with Jesus rather than saying yes to the temptation and and that you know being happy with that sin and being miserable I would much rather have that peace it doesn't mean that I don't get tempted because I do my parents have passed away now And my dad has gone to Jesus.

My stepdad has gone to Jesus.

My mother has gone to Jesus.

They've all became Christians before they passed away.

And there was some reconciliation there that I had with these men in my life.

And I thank God for that.

Even though I still have to work through the issues of the choices that I made and the choice for me to follow.

the gay lifestyle to fall into lesbianism was my choice and i and i'm responsible for that it's hard to come out of that but it's not impossible no matter where you are in that sinful life um god can bring you out of it whether whether it's being in a gay relationship or whether you're with a girl or you're you know like even fornication when you live with your boyfriend or girlfriend that breaks the covenant relationship um adultery breaks the whole covenant of commitment but it's with god there's hope and the other yeah we can talk about the consequences of sin but i want i would much rather talk about the consequence of blessing and mercy Because God will take care.

of everything else.

Christine is in this service and she's here with her family and it's amazing to see what God has done.

She's walking the narrow road with her family, with her community group, with the people who are counseling her and God is shaping her into, I'm telling you, when Jesus comes back, she's going to heaven.

she's going to heaven the irony here is that the narrow path is where by the way i forgot to say this you can find her full testimony it's going to be on youtube today okay 10 minutes this was just five minutes so if you want to go watch it it's going to be on youtube the whole 10 minutes long okay you can watch it there okay the irony here is that the narrow path is where the true life is it's narrow because it's going to help it's going to make you Take decisions that most people don't want to.

Most people are going to laugh at you.

Even your Christian friends, they're going to ridicule you, persecute you.

And so many of you don't want to take that narrow road because it's uncomfortable.

The white path fakes the life you want.

It's counterfeit to what you need.

But what you want is for Jesus to find you being perfected, being sanctified.

Dying to self, allowing the narrow road to make you more like him.

Amen?

And so, I'm going to read Matthew chapter 24.

I'm going to read it slowly.

Here it is.

For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.

For in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage.

until Noah entered the ark.

And they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away.

So will the coming of the Son of Man be.

At that time, there will be two men in the field.

One will be taken and one will be left.

Two men will be grinding at that mill and one will be taken and one will be left.

Therefore, be on your lot, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.

So, the question that I have, For you, the question that I have for you is, which road are you going to be on?

On which road will Jesus find you?

Let's pray.

Lord Jesus, we thank you so much for your love and your word that is true to us.

Thank you for challenging us today.

And there are many of us here today who are not walking with you.

And there are many of us who might be Christians today who are just far from you or walking on the wide path.

Today we know that you're calling us home to help us be ready for when you come up because we do not know which day or hour that you're coming.

Help us be ready.

In Jesus' name we pray and everybody said, amen and amen.

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