WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:12.960 Hey, Jeff, are you glad to be here? 5 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:14.560 I am so glad to be here. 6 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:18.600 That's really good. I'm glad because I certainly, for one 7 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:20.359 am a person who is glad. 8 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:25.239 Yes, And to be or not to be, that's the question. 9 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:29.679 So we are going to launch into that was weird. 10 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:33.320 We're gonna launch it into a Matthew chapter seven passage. 11 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:36.320 But before we do, we have something called I like 12 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:42.000 these hot takes showdown. Okay, So Desiree says, let's debate 13 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:44.200 this statement. Stand your ground, no wavering. 14 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:47.079 Absolutely, here's the first day, taking aside and was sticking 15 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:47.359 with it. 16 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:48.759 Here's the first day, and you're ready. 17 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:49.079 Okay. 18 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:53.399 Cereal is better at night than in the morning. Absolutely, 19 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:56.600 it's one thousand percent correct. 20 00:00:56.679 --> 00:01:01.880 Absolutely, Tell me why, because I never never crave cereal 21 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:04.319 in the morning. I don't know why. You know what 22 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:08.280 I want in the morning. I want eggs, I want sausage. 23 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.519 I want That's what I want. Sweet stuff is more 24 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:14.159 like a snack, and I'd rather have that at night. Okay, 25 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:16.319 even like pancakes, I'd rather have pancakes at night and 26 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:16.799 in the morning. 27 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:20.040 So I am one of these guys. I put a 28 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:23.120 disproportionate amount of milk. I put a lot of milk 29 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:24.719 in my cereal. I love milk. 30 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:26.480 So it's more like a green soup. 31 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:29.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah, depending on that. Yeah, okay, so I 32 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:33.159 just have like I probably have forty percent more milk 33 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:34.000 in my bowl than you do. 34 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:37.159 Wow, okay, whenever you you just think you're better than me. 35 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:40.000 Well, I am better at eating milk. 36 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:42.480 So what is your drink? What is your nighttime cereal? 37 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:46.319 Well it is it is whatever's in the cabinet, honestly. 38 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:49.239 I like all cereals just about really. Oh gosh. 39 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:49.760 Yeah. 40 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:51.959 And when I go down the cereal aisle, I just 41 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:54.840 did this where I where Tory wants to grab like 42 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:57.799 Mom's favorites. She's like, oh, grab the standard, and I go, no, 43 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:00.120 let's grab something new. We always grab the standard. And 44 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:03.400 there's so many good cereals. And so guess what I 45 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:06.680 grabbed but captain crunchberries. 46 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:08.280 Really because I don't like those kind of cereals. 47 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:10.080 Oh, I like all kinds of cirrus. 48 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:10.560 Wow. 49 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:14.039 Yeah, I grabbed those. And then she grabbed cinnamon life, 50 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:18.960 and then I grabbed what else I grab Mani wheats 51 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:20.879 and frosted flakes. 52 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:25.560 I hate many weats. Do you really like? I have 53 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:28.199 a hard time being friends with people who like many weights. 54 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:30.080 Well, Jeff, I'm your friend. 55 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:34.560 They're disgusting. Those they're great, They're gross. Okay, So for 56 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:38.560 me it's I love. The only sweet one I really 57 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:43.400 like is I like frosted flakes, okay, and I could 58 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:46.280 eat a whole box of frosted flakes in a city. 59 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:48.199 It's bad. I like those, so we don't get those 60 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:51.560 very often. And I really really like Raisin brand with 61 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:52.439 double raisins. 62 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:55.639 Oh yeah, I like those two. And I also bought Oh's. 63 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:58.000 You know, have you ever heard? Yeah about those two? 64 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:03.400 So I would say nighttime for me because I'm ten 65 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:07.400 times hungry at night and everything tastes ten times better. 66 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:10.080 Yeah. Well, it's just a good sit in front of 67 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:11.400 the TV and eat your cereal. 68 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:13.199 It definitely definitely is for sure. 69 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.400 Yeah, all right, Okay, so we're both on the same 70 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:17.759 side on that one, but we're emphatic about it. Yes, 71 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:21.560 no doubt, we're not waffling, absolutely serially. 72 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:21.960 Yes, agreed. 73 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:26.800 Okay, all right, second one, remakes ruin original movies. 74 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:30.759 Well, I mean, in some cases, absolutely that's true. You 75 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:33.280 can't waffle, but I will no, no, no, I'm going 76 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:38.159 to emphatically say the statement is emphatically wrong, really, because 77 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:44.560 remikes do not ruin original movies. Bad remix oh you know, 78 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:45.439 ruin originally. 79 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:47.080 Well, I think that's what it's trying to say is 80 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:49.280 that remakes are bad usually. 81 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:52.280 And I'm saying no, yeah, I'm saying that is not true. Okay, 82 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:55.120 so let me tell you something. The Clash of the 83 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:59.039 Titans remake was better than the original. A Star Was 84 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:01.879 Born with Lady was way better. And now now that's 85 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:06.039 debatable because people love Barbara streisand okay, okay, but. 86 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:08.319 Like I'm gonna confess to you, I didn't see either one. 87 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:11.879 Okay, So how about this one. You have you ever 88 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:14.960 seen Father of the Bride with Steve Martin. 89 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:16.240 Yes, I've seen that. 90 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:19.480 That's a remake classic when your kids were little. Did 91 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:22.560 you ever see The Parent Trap with Lindsay low Yeah, okay, 92 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:25.120 that was a remake that was knew the. 93 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:27.480 Old Parent Trap. I didn't see the Lindsay Lohan version. 94 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:29.920 Okay, that was my daughter ten times better. 95 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:31.360 I think Ocean's eleven was better. 96 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:35.040 Ocean's eleven was better. How about this one Little Shop 97 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:36.040 of Horrors. 98 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:37.959 With I never saw either of those? 99 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:42.120 Yeah, that was better. How about this True Lies with 100 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:44.800 Arnold Schwartzenegger Jamie Lee Curtis. That was a remake. First 101 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:47.720 one was terrible. Scarface one of the best movies, arguably 102 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:51.319 ever made by al Pacino. It was a remake, okay. 103 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:54.759 The Freaky Friday was another. 104 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:58.160 Lindsay Professor, That version of Nattie Professor was better. Yes, 105 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:00.319 with Eddie Eddie Murphy in it. Yeah, that was a 106 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:00.639 good one. 107 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:03.800 Yeah. I didn't like the Flubber remake, so that's that's worse. 108 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:06.839 Jungle Book, the live action jungle Book, the second one, 109 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:08.639 the new one, the Jungle Book. 110 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:10.600 Sure it is not better than the remake. 111 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:12.199 Yeah, no, the remake is better. 112 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:13.720 No, I disagree. 113 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:15.759 The newest one? Where where? 114 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:18.360 Uh uh? 115 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:22.240 Who is Blue? Where? Where? Where? You have Christopher walking? 116 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:24.199 Is the the Big Gorilla? 117 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:25.720 I'm not sure I saw. 118 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:26.720 I want to be like you. 119 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:30.720 Oh yeah, yeah it's yes, it's the original one, the 120 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:31.639 one like the cartoon. 121 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:34.160 This is the but it's a live action. Yes, I 122 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:37.800 saw it, exactly like it. And you have who's the 123 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:43.120 guy who from from Sating Up Life that played from 124 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:44.639 from Uh? He played Blue? 125 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:51.079 Did you realize John John Blue? I don't like the 126 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:53.040 remake of Jungle Book, which means I don't remember the 127 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:53.560 actor's name. 128 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:58.240 No, So there's been multiple remakes of the Jungle Book, multiples. 129 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:02.000 Yeah, so I'm going to say I'm gonna say that 130 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:07.399 there are plenty. There are plenty of remakes that are worse. 131 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:14.240 Pete's Dragon was worse. The Footloose remake with what's her name, 132 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:19.360 Juliane Huff I never saw either. That was worse. Beauty 133 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:21.240 and the Beast was a good remake, but it wasn't 134 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:23.319 as good as the cartoon, not even by a long shot. 135 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:27.399 Aladdin was good, but that that there's no way that 136 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:30.360 that was better. Right, So there's there's a lot of 137 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:34.360 different ones that are worse. Oh my goodness, you know 138 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:36.439 what they did. They re actually redid The Father of 139 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:39.800 the Bride like a third time. It was terrible. But 140 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:42.399 you know, my favorite movie in the world was a remake. 141 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:43.959 The conne Money Christo was a remake. 142 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:45.360 Was that a remake? 143 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:47.920 That was a remake? Yeah? Because I saw the original version. Hey, 144 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:51.199 Jeff Goldbloom in the fly. Yeah, the first one was 145 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:54.560 black and white. That was way better than the original, right, 146 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:57.399 So I mean I just would say fifty the time. 147 00:06:57.399 --> 00:07:00.160 It feels like, oh, by the way, this is also debate. Well, 148 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:03.879 but there was a couple of remakes of Annie the musical. Yes, 149 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:07.680 the first one was Carol Burnette and remember all that. Okay, 150 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:12.240 I liked the one with uh. There was there was 151 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:14.759 one that was remade in the nineties, nineteen ninety nine 152 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:19.800 that was way better for TV. It was with I 153 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:23.360 can't remember her name, but anyway, Uh, it was great, 154 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:26.680 it was great. That's my favorite one by far. But 155 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:32.079 I will say this remakes with an agenda like we're 156 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:33.800 gonna make it because we want to feature a. 157 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:37.079 Race, right, right, likes are frustrating, which but that. 158 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:38.360 That was the remake of Father of the Bride. It 159 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:43.120 was a Hispanic one, right or Ghostbusters all female version, right, 160 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:46.839 remember that that was a horrible remake. Horrible, And there 161 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:48.720 was like there was Annie remake. 162 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:51.000 Was yeah, when it has African America, they're not remaking 163 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:53.720 the movie. They're they're using the movie as a platform 164 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:56.079 to push a new agenda or some other agenda. That's 165 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:57.639 just it's it's like yawn. 166 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:01.720 The African American Annie was horrific. Uh right, So remakes 167 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:06.480 with a gender are terrible, but but half the remake 168 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:08.319 that I know of are fantastic. 169 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:13.800 Bill Murray, that's who played Blue in the in the 170 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:18.759 newest version of the Jungle Book. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, 171 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.600 So I promise you must not have seen that one, huh, 172 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:25.079 because you would love it, Bill Murray, Bill Murray. Bill 173 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:26.360 Murray was brilliant in it. 174 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:28.000 I saw it, really, I promise you. 175 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:28.639 Are you serious? 176 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:29.839 I promise you. 177 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:31.600 Well, then you have bad taste of movies. Chris. 178 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:35.639 Uh, that is very far from the truth. 179 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:37.919 I'm standing on that one, and I'm not wavering. That 180 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:46.919 is true. People. Yeah, that's really funny, all right, I'm joking. Okay, Well, 181 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:48.879 I think we're moving on. Then there are those are 182 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:52.639 two big ideas, yes right there just too well okay, 183 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:56.320 well then today we are pivoting into. 184 00:08:56.679 --> 00:08:59.559 Kathy Bates any nineteen ninety nine. I was thinking of 185 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:02.879 Kathy bit it's this one. Okay, then and then what's 186 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:05.519 your name? Who sings on Wicked? She was Glinda? 187 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:09.399 Okay, what's your name? Christian? 188 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:10.440 Yeah? 189 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:10.799 Yeah? 190 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:16.720 Wo okay, Well we are in Matthew chapter five Versus 191 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:18.799 twenty one through twenty six. And this is kind of 192 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:24.360 jumping off of where Jesus says in the Beatitudes Blessed 193 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:27.120 are those, or blessed are you when people mock you 194 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:29.080 and persecute you and lie about you and south sorts 195 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:33.720 of evil things against you, because you're my followers, right, gotcha? 196 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:41.960 And in Matthew five nope, wrong, one, seven, seven, thirteen. Yeah, 197 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:44.519 that's where I'm at. It says Jesus says, you can 198 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:48.279 enter God's kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway 199 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:50.879 to Hell is broad and its gate is wide for 200 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:53.639 the many who choose that way, but the gateway to 201 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:57.399 life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and 202 00:09:57.519 --> 00:10:00.960 only a few ever find it. And I think that 203 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:05.440 this passage was chosen in the context of persecution because 204 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:11.799 this is essentially why persecution happens. Is it's very narrow 205 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:19.320 gait to get to Heaven. It's very wide leading away, 206 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:23.600 and the majority of the world is heading away from God. 207 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:26.080 And Jesus says, at one point, they're gonna hate you 208 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:28.440 because they hate me, And all of a sudden, what 209 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:30.759 happens is when you're heading towards the narrow gate. You're 210 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:35.480 swimming upstream and it becomes very noticeable and people get 211 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:37.759 aggressive about that. I think that's why this was chosen 212 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:42.639 that way, is you're going against what most people, you know, 213 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:48.600 the general belief and popular things. Your path is going 214 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:49.720 against the popular path. 215 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:51.320 Yeah. I agree. 216 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:56.080 And by the way, oh no, you're you're gonna you're 217 00:10:56.080 --> 00:11:00.919 gonna get You're gonna get us canceled now to pay royalties. 218 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:02.120 Hey, I say it, last book. 219 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:03.519 Facebook is going to cancel it. 220 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:06.039 I sang it last time. You figured i'd played the chorus. 221 00:11:06.120 --> 00:11:09.600 That's all just the one line, people, just the one line. 222 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:13.600 But uh, the uh. You know what, I've always thought 223 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:20.519 of this as so to be honest, discouraging, you know, 224 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:24.600 just just to know that, like there's a wide gate, 225 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:28.200 it's so much more popular to reject Christ right, and 226 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:30.399 and how people it says it says the narrow gate. 227 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:33.240 And I started to think about volumes of people. That's 228 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:35.559 when I get discouraged, right, I think about like how 229 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:37.679 many people are going to heaven, how many people are 230 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:40.240 going to Hell? The Bible talks about Hell being a 231 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:42.720 very real place, although our culture doesn't want to talk 232 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:44.840 about hell. They want to eliminate hell. 233 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:47.080 They want to be nice, get all the benefits of 234 00:11:47.080 --> 00:11:48.720 heaven and none of the responsibility of hell. 235 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:51.720 Yeah and so and so, Like I think of volume. 236 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:56.000 But then at the same time I start to interpret 237 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:59.679 this passage, perhaps not just in terms of volume, but 238 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:04.240 when it's says narrow gate, narrow gate meaning that that 239 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:08.919 it's it's easier to just be selfish. It's easier to 240 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:12.480 you know, live your own way and deny that God exists, 241 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:15.039 or if even if you believe he exists, to ignore him. 242 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:19.159 And but yet it takes you know, intentionality, and it 243 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:23.320 takes you know, you know, just a little bit of 244 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:27.960 a little bit of denying yourself of pleasures, denying yourself 245 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:31.879 of the selfish you know, care free living. Right, there's 246 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:34.799 there's a denying part of their right to say, hey, 247 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:37.519 I choose Christ. I choose Christ over what I want 248 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:41.519 to do. Right. So I started thinking about it that way, 249 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:43.480 and I start to get maybe a little bit more 250 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:47.159 encouraged that maybe the narrow gate doesn't mean the majority 251 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:49.720 of all people are going to Hell, but rather it's 252 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:52.279 just harder to get into Heaven than it is to 253 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:54.840 go the other way. In terms of difficulty. 254 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:59.960 Yeah, yeah, Well, the wide path doesn't require any choice 255 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:04.000 at all. There's no decision, there's no repentance necessary, and 256 00:13:04.039 --> 00:13:07.200 repentance just means changing your mind, right, making a decision 257 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:10.480 to go to the other opposite direction. So the current, 258 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:13.080 you know, if you're just going with life, I'm just 259 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:16.879 winging it. I'm just going with the flow, right. I 260 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:18.919 don't know what you can believe about that stuff, So 261 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:20.799 I'm not going to make any choice at all. When 262 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:22.759 you choose not to make a choice, you've made a choice, 263 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:25.120 and that is just to just go with the flow 264 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:28.879 with life. And that is the way most people just 265 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:30.399 live their life. I don't know what you can believe, 266 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:31.679 and I'm not going to do the heavy lifting to 267 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:35.159 figure it out. They just float along. And so when 268 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:37.519 Jesus says it's a narrow way, he's not saying it's hard. 269 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:40.799 He's just saying, you can't go with the flow. There 270 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:44.519 has to be a conscious choice to repent, to change 271 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:47.519 the direction you were going and come my direction. And 272 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:51.120 that is and then he says, I'm the only way, right, 273 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:53.759 I'm the gate John chapter ten, he talks about that 274 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:55.480 rate before he says the thief comes only to steel, 275 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:58.720 kill and destroy. He says, I'm the narrow Gate, and 276 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:02.120 if you come through me me, you'll have access to 277 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:03.919 God and you'll be able to come and go freely 278 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:06.639 and you'll be safe. That's what he says in John ten. 279 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:09.559 And then he says, it's in that context the thief 280 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:12.440 comes only to steal, kill and destroy. I came so 281 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:13.960 that they would have life, and that they would have 282 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:18.440 it to the full. They'd have abundant life. So on 283 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:23.799 one side, just the simple words narrow gate, broadgate, it 284 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:26.159 seems like the broad gate would be better, narrow gate 285 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:28.200 would be worse. But what Jesus is saying is the 286 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:30.919 life you want, the freedom you want, the support you want, 287 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:34.559 the full life, the joy that you're looking for, that's 288 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:36.519 through me. And just trust me. If you do what 289 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:38.399 everybody else is doing, you're gonna get the same results 290 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:41.120 Everybil's kids. But if you want things to be different, 291 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:44.080 if you want it better, Because how many people do 292 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:47.600 you know that are just completely filled with joy, They 293 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:51.080 have so much peace, that their life is overwhelmed with love, 294 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:54.879 that they just feel so blessed all the time. Right now, 295 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:57.679 many most people are just slogging through life trying to 296 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:00.399 figure it out. Right, take care of the old lady, 297 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:03.320 pay the bills, do the whatever, right, run around me 298 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:05.799 and the kids are fighting me and my mom's fighting whatever. 299 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:09.039 I got that stupid boss at work. Gotta pay the bills. 300 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:11.399 That's what. That's how most people feel their life. And 301 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:14.200 then you have these moments that are good hahaha, laugh, 302 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:16.159 have a little bit of fun. You go out on 303 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:18.799 Friday night, maybe every once in a while, you get 304 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:20.840 to go on a vacation, you're in paradise. You immediately 305 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:23.039 start thinking, man, this is the life I look forward 306 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:25.519 to someday when I can retire. You get the sixty seven, 307 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:27.440 You retire your golf for two years to find out 308 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:31.399 you have cancer. Right, That's that's what. And then life 309 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:36.440 is one hundred percent terminal. Everybody has little glimpses of 310 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:41.600 paradise and then dies. Yep, and Jesus is saying, if 311 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:44.519 you go the same direction everybody else goes, you're gonna 312 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:47.240 get the same results everybody else gets. And that's the 313 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:50.080 way most people live their life. Little glimpses of heaven 314 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:53.840 and death or little glipses of paradise. And Jesus, listen, 315 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:57.559 I can give you a full, abundant life now. But 316 00:15:57.639 --> 00:15:59.519 you have to decide you're willing to go the opposite 317 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:02.120 direction from the rest of the world. And it seems narrow, 318 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:06.080 But I'm the way, I'm the truth, I'm the life. 319 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:08.200 No one comes with the Father except through me, is 320 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:10.480 what he says. And then you're gonna find all the 321 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:13.440 life you're looking for. And I would say that's true. Hey, 322 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:17.799 Christians die too, But people who are really dialed into Jesus, 323 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:22.159 really growing in their faith, some of the most satisfied people, 324 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:26.039 some of the most joyful people I've ever known, are 325 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:29.600 the most mature Christians. I'm not just saying generic Christians. 326 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:33.399 I know tons of miserable Christians, but the Christians who 327 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:38.480 really have worked at being mature, godly Christians. Whether it's 328 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:42.799 in the storm or it's on the mountaintop or in 329 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:45.960 the bottom of the valley, whether it's smooth sailing or 330 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:48.840 hard sailing, they just have this joy and this peace 331 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:52.600 and this confidence. They're like zen masters compared to the 332 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:54.639 rest of us, just walking through life, and it doesn't 333 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:56.879 seem to affect them like it affects us, you know, 334 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:00.519 the regular person. And it's because they've really into what 335 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:03.120 Jesus is saying. Here, listen, you come my way and 336 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:06.039 I'll give you that full life. Yeah yeah, you don't 337 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:06.599 go part way. 338 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:13.079 Another way that this visual aid is effective is like, 339 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:14.680 I try to think of it this way. There's many 340 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:16.400 ways to go to hell. There's only one way to 341 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:16.920 get to heaven. 342 00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:20.160 Yeah. Right, So it was all the ways go to 343 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:21.720 hell except the one way to have it. 344 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:23.440 That's right. 345 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:25.680 That's all of them. That's all of them go that way. 346 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:27.039 Only one goes that way. 347 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:29.319 Yeah. Well, it's that verse you quoted, right, John fourteen 348 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:31.200 six where he says Jesus says, I am the way 349 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:32.960 the truth in the life. No man comes to Father 350 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:35.319 except for me. So when he says the narrow gate, 351 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:39.039 and by the way, the narrow gate, people people were 352 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:42.680 very familiar with the width of gates, right. So that's 353 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:44.920 why Jesus was talking about a camel going through the 354 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:47.240 eye of a needle. He was talking about a gate. 355 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:50.519 And you know there were gates and cities. There was 356 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:53.160 gates and for sheep and pens. I mean, you know 357 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:56.000 people used gates. Well, they still use gates today, but 358 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:58.480 not like they did back then. Right. Gates were very 359 00:17:58.640 --> 00:17:59.440 even symbolic. 360 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:01.960 Right, been in different places around the world, in walled 361 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:05.319 cities where the gates were over a thousand years old, right, 362 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:08.839 And they would have some that were great, big, and 363 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:10.799 they would just throw them open and it was come 364 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:13.039 and go through the day. But then at nighttime they 365 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:15.160 would close them and just leave a very narrow gate, 366 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.240 a small gate inside the big gate that was then 367 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:21.319 individual people could pass through. You couldn't bring anything else 368 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:22.839 with you, right. 369 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:29.799 Yeah, Yeah, I actually love the fact that when Jesus 370 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:33.799 claims to be you know, the only way that it is. 371 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:37.720 You know, I always liken it to my previous life 372 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:41.279 because my previous life I was in sales, right. 373 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:41.720 Oh yeah. 374 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:45.000 I worked for like five different companies and they were 375 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:47.880 selling things, no. Six, six different companies where I sold 376 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:52.640 completely different things. I've sold rain soft water purification systems residentially. 377 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:56.799 I've sold MCI long distance, i sold pre owned cars, 378 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:01.759 I've sold credit cards on the phone, old car washes 379 00:19:01.799 --> 00:19:03.960 at car wash companies. Okay, and then there's one other 380 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:07.079 thing that I sold, oh tech Maatic adjustable beds. Okay, 381 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:10.880 I showed. Yeah, I sold six things, and I was 382 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:12.640 so good at all of it. I was such a 383 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:15.079 good salesman and every company. I was number one. I 384 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:16.680 hate to say it that way, but I was, and 385 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:19.480 I made a ton of money. And then when God 386 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:21.839 called me in a ministry, I think to myself, I'm 387 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:26.839 still doing the same thing. I'm actually selling Jesus. And 388 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:29.799 the only difference is ready for this. It's free. It's 389 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:33.599 the best deal of all. I thought, Jesus, if I 390 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:35.920 thought I was good at the other stuff, pushing this 391 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:39.480 deal is the best deal of all because it's free. 392 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:43.279 Everybody gets in the same way. Everybody's invited, everybody can 393 00:19:43.319 --> 00:19:47.160 meet the requirements, and it's it's the best possible benefits 394 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:51.960 with with with with the least amount of requirements other 395 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:57.680 than just grace by faith right belief, and so you know, 396 00:19:57.880 --> 00:20:01.079 to turn from your sins, to agree with God, to repent, 397 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:03.720 to call him Lord of your life, and to believe 398 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:04.960 in trust in his sacrifice. 399 00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:08.759 Yeah, the ownership of it's expensive. Acquiring it's not. Yes, right, 400 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:11.519 then the ownership SI's so acquiring it a salvation by 401 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:13.160