The Road That Leads to Life

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More on the NIV. Print Twitter Facebook Email. Click the button below to continue. New International Version But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. New Living Translation But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it. English Standard Version For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. Berean Study Bible But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it. Berean Literal Bible For small is the gate and narrow the way leading to life, and few are those finding it.

New American Standard Bible "For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it. King James Bible Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Christian Standard Bible How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it. Contemporary English Version But the gate to life is very narrow. The road that leads there is so hard to follow that only a few people find it.

Good News Translation But the gate to life is narrow and the way that leads to it is hard, and there are few people who find it.

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You have to repent ferociously, letting the devil, God, and sometimes people know you have made up your mind to do God's will. If you find that in the depths of your soul you don't really want to quit what you are doing, then pray for the strength to repent. Ask other Christians to pray for you.

Pray, pray, pray, until you can get desperate enough to let the thing go. We continually are finding in ourselves attitudes and behaviors not in keeping with God's will.

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Therefore the true Christian life is one of continual repenting, of continually turning from what we are doing. Christ gives us the wisdom and strength to repent. Perhaps our temptation is to take matters into our own hands. We are not content with our present situation. There is something we want or something we want to escape from. Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the word of his servant? But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze.

This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie down in torment. I am sick of hearing ministers talk about what great things they are going to do for God. Haven't they ever learned to wait quietly for the Lord? God is not asking us to do great things for Christ.

He is asking us to trust in the name of the Lord, to rely on God. God is very displeased when we light up our darkness with our own fires and then walk in our own light. The end of this behavior is torment. Whenever God sets out to make a ruler He first removes him from the world, just as God separated Joseph from his brothers by permitting them to throw him in a pit. Has God separated you from your old friends? The next checkpoint on the road to life, to full salvation, is prison.

Joseph was kept in prison until he was thirty years of age. The Word of the Lord tested Joseph. Suddenly he was removed from prison and placed over the land of Egypt. This is what Jesus Christ tells His brothers when they emerge from prison. What takes place while you are in prison? The crown of incorruptible, resurrection life by which you will govern the nations is formed in you.

The day will come when the massive door of your prison opens. There will be an honor guard waiting for you. You will mount your stallion and ride with your fellow officers toward Jerusalem, singing the war songs of the remnant. All who are called to rulership are called to suffering.

The cross of imprisonment and the crown of authority go together. This is how we walk the road to eternal life. We are faced with the challenge of the Lord. We repent, turning in the desired direction. Then we are given to eat of the tree of life so one day we may be a tree of life to others.

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We have the crown of life and the rod of iron formed in us, as we languish in our prison, so we can rule with Jesus. Are you willing to stay in the prison where the Lord has placed you? Or are you going to take matters into your own hands? You cannot get out of the prison in which you are placed without breaking God's laws. Are you trying to be happy in this present life or are you laying up treasures in Heaven? The Gospel of the Kingdom is the hope of the poor and afflicted of the world, the hope that one day they will be able to dwell with God, free from injustice and affliction.

It is not a means whereby rich Americans can gain even more money, houses, cars, clothes, entertainment, vacations, and thus utterly destroy the vestiges of eternal life they presently possess. The individual who waits God's time for deliverance cannot be hurt by the second death, the Lake of Fire. It is because during his imprisonment the behaviors over which the second death always retains authority are burned out of him, driven from him. Day by day we repent, turning in the direction God desires.

Day by day the rewards, the increments of personality, are added to us. This is the road to the Throne of Christ. This is the way we become qualified and competent to be raised in the first resurrection and then to return with Jesus to serve as a tree of life and as a ruler of the nations. Have you found the gate? Have you gone through the gate and now are walking on the road to life? If so, never, never quit. Never take matters into your own hands. Do not light up your darkness with fires of your own making.

Until He brings you out of prison as He did Joseph.

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Some of us find glory and blessing, the goodness of the Lord, in the present world. Others die in faith. But you can be sure when the eyes of those who die in faith are opened to the spirit world they are surrounded with throngs of saints congratulating them on their faithfulness to God.