The gate or door according to Luke 13:24, just as also the way, is Jesus himself (with the grace of God, which He has won for us through His suffering and death.) John 10:7, 9. The call can be translated as 'Believe in me (and what I've come to do)'.
The gate is narrow and the way is narrow for all people who are still in their unrepentant and from God turned away state. Yes, the gate is so small and the way so narrow that it is completely impossible for these people to enter it. Human reason is namely focused on our own performance in order to reach God and salvation. The narrow gate and the narrow road requires that you become righteous before God by grace alone, for the sake of Christ's death. This is unacceptable to the natural human way of thinking.
Paul testifies that the talk about the cross of Christ was a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles. 1 Cor. 1:23. Although Jesus did many signs and wonders, who testified that He was the Messiah promised in the prophecies, very few of the Jews believed that Jesus was sent by the Father. John 12:37.
Disbelief or the path of reason is generally the accepted way. If the kingdom of God would not be in ministry on earth all men would be on the broad road, because all share in the Fall. But this road leads to eternal destruction, regardless of that there are many who walk in it. That road is wide and broad in the sense that it allows the human complacency to thrive and allow man freely to substantiate their false hopes of their own deeds of righteousness.
By himself no man is seeking the narrow gate or the narrow road. And no one would find them, if not the gate or the road itself would come in the form of the gospel and bring man on the path of life. Those who have been found by Jesus, they also simultaneously have found Him. These people form an elect group among the vast majority of people.
The false shining is the broad road that holds all human, seemingly good intentions, through their own candidate, self-will and self-striving to develop their own righteousness. The glow of it is a false picture of the truth. Man's own will and desire is namely throughout sinful and that broad road ends in damnation.
The gate is narrow and the way is narrow for all people who are still in their unrepentant and from God turned away state. Yes, the gate is so small and the way so narrow that it is completely impossible for these people to enter it. Human reason is namely focused on our own performance in order to reach God and salvation. The narrow gate and the narrow road requires that you become righteous before God by grace alone, for the sake of Christ's death. This is unacceptable to the natural human way of thinking.
Paul testifies that the talk about the cross of Christ was a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles. 1 Cor. 1:23. Although Jesus did many signs and wonders, who testified that He was the Messiah promised in the prophecies, very few of the Jews believed that Jesus was sent by the Father. John 12:37.
Disbelief or the path of reason is generally the accepted way. If the kingdom of God would not be in ministry on earth all men would be on the broad road, because all share in the Fall. But this road leads to eternal destruction, regardless of that there are many who walk in it. That road is wide and broad in the sense that it allows the human complacency to thrive and allow man freely to substantiate their false hopes of their own deeds of righteousness.
By himself no man is seeking the narrow gate or the narrow road. And no one would find them, if not the gate or the road itself would come in the form of the gospel and bring man on the path of life. Those who have been found by Jesus, they also simultaneously have found Him. These people form an elect group among the vast majority of people.
The false shining is the broad road that holds all human, seemingly good intentions, through their own candidate, self-will and self-striving to develop their own righteousness. The glow of it is a false picture of the truth. Man's own will and desire is namely throughout sinful and that broad road ends in damnation.
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