Matthew 7:13-14 NIV “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. [14] But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Indeed, this is true...but it comes from the Sermon on the Mount and applies to entering the kingdom of heaven while on earth, not where we go when we die.
I disagree with Michael, Tim. I think that Matthew 7: 13-14 says that the narrow gate leads to immortality and the wide gate does not. Just like Genesis 3: 22-24 says. ✴ _22 Then the LORD God said, “Look, the human beings have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!” 23 So the LORD God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made. 24 After sending them out, the LORD God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden. And he placed a flaming sword that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life._ (Genesis 3: 22-24, NLT)
It was the great re-make and re-purposing of creation. It was Jeremiah's potter re-fashioning the clay from something broken to something useful (Jer 18) - the classic case of God using evil as a stepping stone to good. God does not need evil to accomplish His purposes, but He will use it to accomplish His purposes - proving that nothing can thwart him.
--Everyone-- *Nobody Is Going to Heaven* This will come as a surprise to many people but the Bible nowhere promises heaven to anyone, not even to the followers of Christ.
Phil 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; Phil 3:21 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.
@@michaeldavidgantt Thank you for confirming my earlier assertion, Michael. Our Savior is going to come to us. We are not going to go to Him. ✴ *...FROM...FROM...FROM* which also we eagerly wait for a Savior....
@@michaeldavidgantt No, I did not skip over it. It does not say anything about our going to heaven. My money is in the Bank. I am not. ✴ 31 “When the Son of Man COMES...COMES...COMES in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. 34 “THEN...THEN...THEN the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. (Matthew 25: 31-34, NIV)
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Matthew 7:13-14 NIV
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. [14] But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Indeed, this is true...but it comes from the Sermon on the Mount and applies to entering the kingdom of heaven while on earth, not where we go when we die.
I disagree with Michael, Tim. I think that Matthew 7: 13-14 says that the narrow gate leads to immortality and the wide gate does not. Just like Genesis 3: 22-24 says.
✴ _22 Then the LORD God said, “Look, the human beings have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!” 23 So the LORD God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made. 24 After sending them out, the LORD God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden. And he placed a flaming sword that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life._ (Genesis 3: 22-24, NLT)
It does make sense that the greatest judgement/ the greatest tribulation would come on the generation that killed God.
It was the great re-make and re-purposing of creation. It was Jeremiah's potter re-fashioning the clay from something broken to something useful (Jer 18) - the classic case of God using evil as a stepping stone to good. God does not need evil to accomplish His purposes, but He will use it to accomplish His purposes - proving that nothing can thwart him.
Happy new year to you and yours!
1 Thess 3:8 for now we really live, if you stand firm in the Lord.
You are a universalist?
How do you define universalist?
--Everyone-- *Nobody Is Going to Heaven* This will come as a surprise to many people but the Bible nowhere promises heaven to anyone, not even to the followers of Christ.
Phil 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
Phil 3:21 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.
@@michaeldavidgantt Thank you for confirming my earlier assertion, Michael. Our Savior is going to come to us. We are not going to go to Him.
✴ *...FROM...FROM...FROM* which also we eagerly wait for a Savior....
@@IsaacNussbaum You seem to have skipped right over "our citizenship is in heaven."
@@michaeldavidgantt No, I did not skip over it. It does not say anything about our going to heaven. My money is in the Bank. I am not.
✴ 31 “When the Son of Man COMES...COMES...COMES in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34 “THEN...THEN...THEN the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. (Matthew 25: 31-34, NIV)
@@IsaacNussbaum Then what do you think happens when you die?