Power and Purpose
We have a new life. But it is impossible to have one foot and part of your body inside the broad gate and part of your body inside the narrow gate. It is either heaven or hell. It is either destruction or life. It is either power and purpose and strength or it is aimlessness, futility and apathy. What is it going to be for you?
Some of you think that God is going to kind of change His mind on that day of reckoning. Some of you think that God is just going to nod and wink and wave everyone through. Or do you believe that on that final day God is going to say, "You know you have sinned against Me.
You have turned your back on me. Yet, I have loved you so much that I commissioned Jesus Christ, My only Son, to live a perfect life and to die an excruciating death on the cross for all of your sins and to rise again. Because you have accepted that, by grace through faith, and because of that, welcome to heaven." How many narrow gaters and how many broad gaters do we really have here? It is my prayer today that you settle this issue.
After Christ talked about two contrasting gates, He talked about two contrasting roads. Once we enter through the narrow gate or the broad gate, a series of dominos are tripped on either road. Let's first of all talk about the broad road, the wide road, that four lane interstate, that cruise control, good radio station, numbing out type mentality. That life has no moral guardrails or no speed limit signs and there is not a highway patrolman in sight.
You just do whatever feels good. You say to everybody that this is the way to do it, that you love what you are doing. You are singing Sheryl Crow's song, "Every day is a winding road. I get a little bit closer. Every day is a faded sign. I get a little bit closer to feeling fine.
Ed Young [http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/good_day_atl/Willing-to-Try-a-Sexperiment-20120113-gda-sd] everybody gets high. Everybody gets low. These are the days when anything goes." That's the theme song. Now we have got a lot of people in this auditorium right now who are on the broad and wide road. And you are singing at the top of your lungs.
The narrow road is different. The narrow road has those moral guardrails. The narrow road has highway patrolmen everywhere.
Some of you think that God is going to kind of change His mind on that day of reckoning. Some of you think that God is just going to nod and wink and wave everyone through. Or do you believe that on that final day God is going to say, "You know you have sinned against Me.
You have turned your back on me. Yet, I have loved you so much that I commissioned Jesus Christ, My only Son, to live a perfect life and to die an excruciating death on the cross for all of your sins and to rise again. Because you have accepted that, by grace through faith, and because of that, welcome to heaven." How many narrow gaters and how many broad gaters do we really have here? It is my prayer today that you settle this issue.
After Christ talked about two contrasting gates, He talked about two contrasting roads. Once we enter through the narrow gate or the broad gate, a series of dominos are tripped on either road. Let's first of all talk about the broad road, the wide road, that four lane interstate, that cruise control, good radio station, numbing out type mentality. That life has no moral guardrails or no speed limit signs and there is not a highway patrolman in sight.
You just do whatever feels good. You say to everybody that this is the way to do it, that you love what you are doing. You are singing Sheryl Crow's song, "Every day is a winding road. I get a little bit closer. Every day is a faded sign. I get a little bit closer to feeling fine.
Ed Young [http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/good_day_atl/Willing-to-Try-a-Sexperiment-20120113-gda-sd] everybody gets high. Everybody gets low. These are the days when anything goes." That's the theme song. Now we have got a lot of people in this auditorium right now who are on the broad and wide road. And you are singing at the top of your lungs.
The narrow road is different. The narrow road has those moral guardrails. The narrow road has highway patrolmen everywhere.
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