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WELCOME TO GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING

THE TITLE FOR TODAY’S EPISODE:  NARROW PASSAGE

People do not realize how serious salvation is and how people are getting it all wrong. Many think if they have someone repeat a bunch of words famously called the sinners prayer that all is well. Show me in the word of God where one person was ever added to the family of God by reciting words after someone. I realize that some got their start that way, and went on to find Jesus for real. But many have been told that they are saved and they remain very lost.

When I was a child, we would recite the pledge of allegiance every morning to start the school day. But that didn’t give me allegiance to the flag. I didn’t even know what the words meant at that age. I feel like many repeat a bunch of words like I am sorry for what I’ve done and come into my heart. And leave the same way they came, because there was not true repentance. They go back out into the world and continue doing what they have done before; living a life of sin.

Jesus’ blood was not spilled so we could recite a few words and continue on our way unchanged. His blood is too precious to be treated with so little care.

People are under the assumption that we can come to God anytime we wish, but the word says we cannot except the Spirit draw us. Everyone is given multiple chances by God. But if people do not come to him with a truly repentant heart and then go and live a different life, they were never saved. Because the infilling of the Spirit does not come, without the blood being applied through true repentance and change.

Matt 7:13-14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

This is Jesus’ words, he said the strait gate. Which is a small narrow passage. Few will make it through this opening. I understand he is talking about sin being a broad road. Salvation being a narrow road. The broad road is not only living a life of sin. It is also those who live a life dedicated to idols of denomination and false teaching, from the word. But we as the body have got to stop trying to repent for people. In the natural, birth is a hard and laborious process. It is a strain on the mother and the child. We can explain to them what they need to do. But stop telling them they are saved. You don’t know their heart?  Only God can judge the heart.

I know a girl that repented as a child. She grew up to live a very wicked life. But when you tried to talk to her about the Lord she would say, Preacher “ so and so” told me I was saved so I am good. As far as I know she died in a wicked state of sin without any true change. So I ask you to think about it. Does saying the sinners prayer at age six, then living any way you wish until you are forty make you a Christian? Does it make you saved? 

Judges 12:5-6 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; 6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

This is an interesting story you should read the whole chapter of Judges 12. There was a narrow passage like a strait. The Gileadites sat up a checkpoint at a narrow passage of Jordan. The Ephraimites which the were at war with wanted to go through the passage so they gave them a test. None of the could pronounce the word Shibboleth. They would say Sibboleth.  One letter difference. If those guarding the gate didn’t listen closely they would not have noticed any difference. But because they were vigilant they did notice. Their enemy was not allowed to pass through.

When it comes to people’s souls we cannot take chances without knowing and being able to see the heart. Only God can judge our hearts. We want to see people saved. That is one thing we all can agree on, and many have good intentions. But saying a pledge of allegiance to God will not change the heart. It doesn’t bring about true repentance in most people.

I hope you get the understanding of what I am saying. This is meant to encourage thinking about things and not an attack in any way. Time is too short for us to not get things right. There is a large harvest of souls coming. We must lead them the right way. Remembering how seriously narrow the passageway from death unto life; it is a strait path. “S T R A I T “as well as a “S T R A I G H T” path meaning not crooked.

I encourage you to think about what I have said. Pray about what I have said. Let us grow together in God’s grace.

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Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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