The 2 Gates

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ib4gzus

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What are the narrow gate and the wide gate of which Jesus spoke?

When Jesus spoke those words, He was speaking to those
who were under the law of Moses. However, the same concept
of the narrow gate and the wide gate still applies today in
this present dispensation of grace.

The narrow gate is the gate through which all those who truly believe
the gospel pass to eternal life. The gospel is that Jesus Christ, the Son
of God, freely gave His life on the cross to pay for our sins, and He rose
from the dead on the third day (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). If we truly believe
that, then God will count our sin debt as having been paid, and we
will have eternal life.

The wide gate is the gate to destruction through which everyone else passes. All
of the unbelievers will pass through the wide gate. This includes those
who deny that God exists, the agnostics, and those of religions
that worship other gods. But it also includes all of those who call themselves
Christians but believe they will be saved by their good works rather than
by God's grace through faith in the gospel. Unfortunately, this is where
most of the people who say they are Christians are today.

They are headed for the wide gate.
 
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journey41

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ib4gzus said:
What are the narrow gate and the wide gate of which Jesus spoke?

When Jesus spoke those words, He was speaking to those
who were under the law of Moses. However, the same concept
of the narrow gate and the wide gate still applies today in
this present dispensation of grace.

The narrow gate is the gate through which all those who truly believe
the gospel pass to eternal life. The gospel is that Jesus Christ, the Son
of God, freely gave His life on the cross to pay for our sins, and He rose
from the dead on the third day (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). If we truly believe
that, then God will count our sin debt as having been paid, and we
will have eternal life.

The wide gate is the gate to destruction through which everyone else passes. All
of the unbelievers will pass through the wide gate. This includes those
who deny that God exists, the agnostics, and those of religions
that worship other gods. But it also includes all of those who call themselves
Christians but believe they will be saved by their good works rather than
by God's grace through faith in the gospel. Unfortunately, this is where
most of the people who say they are Christians are today.

They are headed for the wide gate.
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As we all know, there are people out there that that work effortlessly to help & assist people in need..... but if that person who does the good works, hates Christ (I know many), then those good works will not save him. They will not get their ticket to heaven, because one thing is missing out of the equasion....acknowledging and confessing that we are all born under sin and Christ is the only one that can forgive us and lead us to God by mercy and showing us his example.

......Now we must produce good works. We know through the Word of God (Christ) the guidelines set for righteousness. Before we were in the dark, and we thought some things were good, but now we learn more perfectly what God considers good and evil. We learn this through the holy scriptures. The Word of God in print, which will then be imprinted into our heart and spirit...which no one can ever take away once it reaches inside of us.

We must walk that straight path. And the more we feed on Christ, and imitate him, the more the good works will surely follow.


So works without faith are dead, but faith with works shows that we have learned of Christ, and we must encourage each other to produce good works if we are serious about enduring to the end and recieving our salvation. Because if our works are bad, then we do not belong to Christ and he will call us an imposter.

We are faced with decisions every day. It is our choice what we choose to do. Listen to the world, or listen to God.

We get rewarded for good works even though we are not seeking a reward. We do it because we love our Lord and love righteousness, but the reward will come later regardless.

It is God's righteousness to begin with, not ours...but we chose God's righteousness to dwell in us, and not evil, and that righteousness will manifest so that we are blameless.

Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.


Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.


1 Timothy 6:18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;


2 Timothy 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.


But we don't boast of our good works. Do them in secret and God will reward in secret. If we boast, then that good work is taken away.

We are representatives of Christ to this world, and to each other. We can either bring our Lord shame, or bring him glory.

We are not saved because of good works, but we practise good works because we are saved.
God bless
 
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