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 --> 00:00:13.039 practical ways. Well, hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. 4 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:15.480 I'm Chris and I'm Jeff, and it's Monday. 5 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:18.039 It is Monday, and we are glad to be here. 6 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:20.640 If you're listening in order. If you're not listening in order, 7 00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:21.760 it's whatever day you're listening. 8 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:23.760 Yeah. Yeah, it could be three in the morning at 9 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:24.160 a gym. 10 00:00:24.359 --> 00:00:26.440 Yeah, on a Friday, on a Friday. 11 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:30.760 And if you're at Jim at the gym working out 12 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:32.439 at three in the morning on a Friday, then good 13 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:32.679 for you. 14 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:35.600 Good for you. Yeah, I'm not going to be there 15 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:36.280 at three in the morning. 16 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:38.640 No, I'm barely going to be there when I have 17 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:38.840 to be. 18 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:40.520 We're not going to have to fight over the StairMaster 19 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:41.280 at three in the morning. 20 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:43.840 You know, if at one time, when I was going 21 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:47.079 to the gym at La Fitness, I used to tell 22 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:48.399 my wife, I said, you know, if you time it 23 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:51.320 just right, everybody there looks like they're there because they're 24 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:55.679 prescribed to be there by a doctor. That's the time. 25 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:57.359 That's the time I like to go. I should go 26 00:00:57.359 --> 00:00:59.000 to the gym. You're dying, right. 27 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:02.439 I go there because it makes me feel better about 28 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:05.439 myself and the time. So, hey, we're going to dive 29 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:09.439 into saying that Jesus made because we're in the middle 30 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:12.280 of a series. What if Jesus had his own podcast 31 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:14.319 and he had turns out he had a bunch of 32 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:15.239 famous sayings. 33 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:17.560 He did a lot of people like him. 34 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:21.000 Yeah, well he's famous for a reason, Jeff. Yeah. But 35 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.480 before we get into that, we have a segment by Desiree, 36 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:29.400 who has put together Stump the pastor every time I 37 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:31.200 hear stump the pastor, I want to like when I 38 00:01:31.239 --> 00:01:33.920 hear stump, I want to bang something stump. I don't 39 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:35.719 know why why, I don't know, thinking of like a 40 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:36.480 jingle or something. 41 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:38.159 Okay, stump the past. 42 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:41.840 Okay, I don't know, don't, don't, don't, yeah something. But 43 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:47.239 here's the question written in by Alice m Hi Alice M. 44 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:50.959 She says, if all sins are equal before God, why 45 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:54.480 do humans rank them so intensely? 46 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:59.280 Wow, that's a great question, because very thoughtful, you know. 47 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:01.920 And by the way, we've said this a lot of 48 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:05.319 times on stage or talking one on one with people. 49 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:08.319 We say that just one sin makes you a sinner, yeah, right, 50 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:11.240 one line makes you a liar. All sins are equal, 51 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:15.400 All sins have the same price, All sins separate us 52 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:18.719 from God. So in that sense it is correct. All 53 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:21.840 sins are equal in the sight of God in terms 54 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:23.960 of eternity and punishment. 55 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:27.560 Right, not punishment but eternity. 56 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:31.000 Yeah, well those meaning salvation punishment yea. 57 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:37.400 Yeah, from a salvation standpoint. So the premise all sins 58 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:41.360 are equal comes from the Book of James was It 59 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:44.560 three where he says, if you've broken any part of 60 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:47.000 the law, you've broken the whole law. So that's where 61 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:51.800 the premise would come from. And that is a true 62 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:54.400 statement in that if you're trying to keep the law 63 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:55.879 in order to go to heaven, if you break any 64 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:57.560 part of it, guess what, you don't get to go. 65 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:01.840 Whether it's murdering somebody or telling a white lie, you're 66 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:04.639 right that you broke the law. You've broken all the law. 67 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:05.800 But when it. 68 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:10.759 Comes to sins themselves, it's not entirely a true premise 69 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:15.639 to say all sins are equal. God differentiates between sins. 70 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:21.080 Jesus differentiated even on Earth between sins. Do you remember 71 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:26.439 when Jesus was going through his trials, and he mentions, 72 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:29.360 and the judgment will be greater for this one. Remember, 73 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:33.520 he says that the one who actually announced his execution pilot, 74 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:38.560 so Jesus acknowledges this. But God says in the Book 75 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:43.159 of Proverbs, he mentions, he mentions all these sins. But 76 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:44.800 then he said, there's seven that I hate that are 77 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:49.319 detestable to me. Literally the word abomination. There's about seven 78 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:52.879 or eight more through the Old Testament that God mentions 79 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:55.560 that are abominations to him, And the word abomination could 80 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:58.479 have been translated it makes me want to vomit. Right, 81 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:01.639 So those are and I think it's because of the 82 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:08.759 consequences they have significant. Paul talks about sins within our 83 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:11.360 body and sins outside of our body. So there are 84 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:14.560 differentiations and sin. So when it comes to going to heaven, 85 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:18.959 every sin that we commit separates us from God. 86 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:20.600 It equally separates us. 87 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:26.360 Right, But the consequences of sins are they vary right. 88 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:29.040 Well, even even from a human standpoint as well. 89 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:32.920 That's right, right, the humans, the human consequences, the physical consequences, 90 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:34.959 those kinds of things, and then the things that will 91 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:38.639 bring sudden judgment from God. Versus the things that God 92 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:43.639 tends to be more gracious towards. 93 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:43.920 Yeah. 94 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:47.079 Yeah, so I think that's it's a great question, and 95 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:50.079 it's kind of a nuanced answer, don't you there's a 96 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:50.920 little bit of a nuance. 97 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:52.879 Yeah. Well, I mean the question is based on the 98 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:58.000 premise of understanding that, like, all sins are equal. That phrase, 99 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:00.439 it's it's sort of like semantics. It's like, what are 100 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:03.000 you meaning when you say that? Right? Because they are 101 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:06.639 equal in terms of separating us from God, and God 102 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:10.920 sees them as all of them offensive in terms of, like, 103 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:18.560 you know, disqualifying humans from God's holy presence, and you know, 104 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:24.160 also all of them are you know, just as offensive 105 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:27.160 to a sinless God, I believe, But in terms of yeah, 106 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:33.040 you're right, consequences, God expresses emotion against certain sins more 107 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:34.639 intensely than he does others. 108 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:39.120 And well, even in the Old Testament, some things God 109 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:43.319 would say, Okay, you did this wrong thing against your neighbor. 110 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.519 You need to go make it right. Restitution right then, 111 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:51.240 there were some restitution with interest, right then, there were 112 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:55.800 some death penalty right right. All of those were sins, 113 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:58.040 but some just required, hey, you need to go make 114 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:01.079 it right. Some say some of the consequences where you'd 115 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:03.720 make it right and give a little kicker, because you 116 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:05.839 know what you did was wrong, and so a lot 117 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:07.759 of it had to do with intent or with the 118 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:10.920 cost of the other person that you sinned against, where 119 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:12.519 God would would do this thing. So let me give 120 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:16.000 you a few verses that would help on this. James 121 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:18.399 two ten is where we get the verse that talks 122 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:20.279 about if you've broken any part of the law, you've 123 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:23.399 broken the whole law. So that's the premise of all 124 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:28.240 sins are equal. But for instance, Proverbs six sixteen through 125 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:32.319 nineteen is where God says, haughty eyes, a lying tongue, 126 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:35.959 hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, 127 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:39.759 feet that rushed to do evil, a false witness, and 128 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:43.000 somebody who sows discord among brethren. Those things just makes 129 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:46.040 God sick. Right, that's he refers those things in a 130 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:50.759 different way than he refers to say, you know, stealing 131 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:53.199 a tutsi roll from the seven to eleven, right, right, 132 00:06:53.279 --> 00:06:55.839 it's he does that's not in there. It's not in there. Okay, 133 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:00.399 I've double checked it, right, John nineteen eleven. 134 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:02.759 I have seven things, yay, eight things. 135 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:08.800 Those are your stole rolls from the Yeah, John nineteen 136 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:12.680 eleven is where Jesus mentions the one who handed me 137 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:14.639 over to you. He's talking about the one who handed 138 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:18.120 me over, talking about the Pharisees and the priests. They're 139 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:23.759 going to see greater judgment Kyphas specifically, and then Jesus mentions, 140 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:28.000 I forgot about this. When Jesus mentions how some towns 141 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:33.680 would be judged more harshly than Sodom. Remember in Matthew 142 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:38.240 chapter eleven, so he talks about Sidon and those and 143 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:42.240 he also speaks of varying degrees of punishment in Luke 144 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:45.800 chapter twelve, verses forty seven and forty eight, depending on 145 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:49.079 what a person knew, right to whom much is given 146 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:50.079 much as he required. 147 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:50.959 Yeah, so. 148 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:58.319 I think that the truth is much more nuanced than 149 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:04.319 just the flat statement. But I think humans rank sins 150 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:07.079 because this is the second half of a question. Humans 151 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:10.480 rank sins differently because of the external consequences. 152 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:12.480 Usually, Yeah, when. 153 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:15.000 You have a murderer or somebody committed genocide or a 154 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:19.720 rapist or something, we would say there's an extra level 155 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:22.040 of hell for you, right, And it's because of the 156 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:27.480 extreme external consequences on somebody else, and it was a 157 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:28.319 willful act. 158 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:30.079 Right. We look at those that way. 159 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:36.960 And God often also ascribes significant consequences to extreme internal decisions. 160 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:40.480 You knew what was right, and you extremely chose to 161 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:44.200 do the wrong thing, and so God measures it both 162 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:46.639 the external and the internal, and we don't always see 163 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:47.039 it that way. 164 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:50.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree, and I think that that's 165 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:53.200 our time on the segment. But I definitely think it's 166 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:57.399 a great question because it can be misunderstood. It could 167 00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:01.080 be definitely misunderstood for people when you hear, for instance, 168 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:05.080 a pastor or somebody say, hey, all sins are equal 169 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:08.440 in the sight of God, and they're meaning that context, 170 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:09.279 the context of. 171 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:12.559 Well, even the smallest sin would have required the greatest 172 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:14.120 sacrifice that Jesus gave. 173 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:15.639 Yeah, I had to give his life. 174 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:17.960 For it, right, right, Yeah, all sins qualify us for 175 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.240 being sinners. Yes, they're equal in that sense. 176 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:20.799 Yeah, that's right. 177 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:23.559 Yeah, that's great. Yeah, wow, all right, way, great question, 178 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:28.600 And that was pretty intense we start off. Yeah, and 179 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:32.879 guess what, Just like sins are small and big, just 180 00:09:32.919 --> 00:09:37.440 like they are narrow and wide, I have another thing 181 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:41.879 that's narrow and wide today to talk about Jesus, and 182 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:42.879 they're called gates. 183 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:46.559 Yes, if you're new to the podcast, one of our 184 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:49.000 goals has been to have the worst possible transition. 185 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:51.399 Yes, yes, so good job, Chris. 186 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:54.159 Thank you, it was horrible. Thank you. Well. 187 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:59.200 We are in Matthew chapter seven, which, by the way, Chris, 188 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:01.480 Matthew chapter five, six, and seven are. 189 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:04.399 Called the Sermon. 190 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:04.080 On the Mountain. 191 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:08.279 And this is the longest message that Jesus preaches, And 192 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:10.639 so we're gonna read Versus and perhaps the most important 193 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:11.799 thirteen twenty seven. 194 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:12.919 It's significant. 195 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:17.519 He says you can enter God's kingdom only through the 196 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:20.759 narrow gate. The highway to Hell is broad, and its 197 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:23.720 gait is wide for the many who choose that way. 198 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:26.200 But the gateway to life is very narrow, and the 199 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:28.840 road is difficult, and only a few ever find it. 200 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:32.440 Beware of false prophets who come disguise as harmless sheep 201 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:35.919 but are really vicious wolves. You can identify them by 202 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:37.879 their fruit, that is, by the way they act. 203 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:38.759 You can pick. 204 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:42.000 Grapes from thorn, you can, or can you pick grapes 205 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:45.600 from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles. A good tree 206 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:48.960 produces good fruit. A bad tree produces bad fruit. A 207 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:51.679 good tree can't produce bad fruit, and a bad tree 208 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:54.480 can't produce good fruit. So every tree that does not 209 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:57.120 produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire. Yes, 210 00:10:57.600 --> 00:10:59.679 just as you can identify a tree by its fruit, 211 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:03.879 so you can identify people by their actions. Not everyone 212 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:05.679 who calls out to me, Lord Lord, will enter the 213 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:08.039 Kingdom of heaven. Only those who actually do the will 214 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:11.120 the Father in heaven will enter. On judgment day. Many 215 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:12.960 will say to me, Lord Lord, we prophesied in your 216 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.240 name and cats out demons in your name. Perfore many 217 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:17.799 miracles in your name. But I will reply, I never 218 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:20.919 knew you. Get away from me, you who break God's laws. 219 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:24.320 Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise. 220 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:27.159 Like a person who builds a house on a solid rock. 221 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:30.440 Though the rain comes in torrents and the flood waters rise, 222 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:33.039 and the wind beats against that house, it won't collapse 223 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:36.279 because it's built on bedrock. But anyone who hears my 224 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:39.080 teaching and does not obey it, it's foolish, like the 225 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:41.840 person who builds a house on sand, and when the 226 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.440 rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, 227 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:48.759 it will collapse with a mighty crash. 228 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:51.879 You want to that last there's a lot, Yes, sure 229 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:52.639 I might as well. 230 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:55.080 When Jesus had finished these sayings, and crowds were amazed 231 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:58.279 at his teaching, for he taught with real authority, quite 232 00:11:58.360 --> 00:11:59.919 unlike their teachers of religious law. 233 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:03.519 Yeah. You know what's interesting is that, you know, because 234 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:06.559 we're not going chronologically anymore. I'm not I've not used 235 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:09.360 my chronological Bible. I just grabbed any Bible off my desk, 236 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:12.600 and I did this last week to the quest study Bible. 237 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:14.759 But it's been n I v oh yeah and uh. 238 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:17.240 And so it's it's so different to read a different 239 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:21.039 version right as you're reading it. Uh, because you said 240 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:24.120 the Highway to Hell, and it says for the for 241 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:28.840 why does the gate and broad? Where did you? Where 242 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:32.200 does your sayway to Hell's verse thirteen enter through the 243 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:34.399 narrow gate? For why is the gate and broad is 244 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:37.759 the road that leads to destruction? That's what mine says? Yes, right, 245 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:39.600 but your says how to Hell and anyway? As soon 246 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:41.039 as you said that, I thought, is there not a 247 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:44.039 single human being at least our age that did not 248 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:50.039 hear in the mine? Ah? Yeah, so anyway, let's get 249 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:50.559 that out of the way. 250 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:53.039 Sorry, brod broad is that gate? 251 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:53.240 Right? 252 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:54.240 But let's talk. 253 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:59.320 About we have we have three massive uh object lessons. 254 00:12:59.399 --> 00:12:59.559 Right. 255 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:03.159 We have narrow and wide gates, we have fruit bearing 256 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:06.559 different trees bearing different types of fruit, and then we 257 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:11.120 have building house on solid versus shaky foundations. 258 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:13.799 So we have four minutes per topic. There you go, 259 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:14.120 there you go. 260 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:17.279 Let's go for it, all right, So okay, so wide 261 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:22.399 versus narrow gates. So oftentimes a city would be built 262 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:25.200 with walls protected around it. I mean every major city 263 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:29.039 just about had this. And everybody knows that there are 264 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:33.080 certain gates that you would walk through personally like humans, 265 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:35.080 and then there are certain gates that you could take 266 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.440 animals through. And then there were certain gates that were wider, 267 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:40.840 built wider for commerce. Right, they were like the main gates, 268 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:44.360 and depending on where you were approaching the city and 269 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:48.720 depending on what you had to do, were your choices. Now, Jerusalem, 270 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:51.519 how many gates? Did Jerusalem have a bunch? Like seventy 271 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:52.399 or something? 272 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:53.559 There were a bunch, Yeah, there were. 273 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:56.519 A bunch and at one time, and so there was 274 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:58.879 definitely a lot of different gates. I don't think there 275 00:13:58.879 --> 00:13:59.759 were seventy. 276 00:13:59.600 --> 00:13:59.960 I don't know. 277 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:03.879 But anyway, but you know, when he talks about gates, 278 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:09.440 everybody definitely understood that, right because you know, gates were 279 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:11.399 just as popular back then as they are now. Even 280 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:14.320 when Jesus talked about Sheep and Shepherd member, he talked 281 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:17.440 about the gates, and Jesus actually said at one point 282 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:21.480 that he was the gate. Right. So anyway, so yeah, 283 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:25.399 why why is the gate to hell narrows the gate 284 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:28.360 to heaven? And then he goes on and says that 285 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:31.559 there will be many people that said, whoa, whoa, whoa? God, 286 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:34.840 what do you mean I've I've I've been a person 287 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:37.039 who's gone around and done great things in your name? 288 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:40.960 And God will actually say one of the most sad 289 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:43.919 phrases in the Bible, right, depart from me for I 290 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:47.159 never knew you. And it's like, what are you talking about? 291 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:49.799 Are there going to be people that get to heaven 292 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:54.440 and they think they're gonna be in heaven and yet 293 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:56.840 God's going to say, no, you didn't, you didn't make it. 294 00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:00.600 I mean, this is a pretty sobering passage. Yeah, so 295 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:01.759 what would you say about that? 296 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:06.559 So the wide gate is. 297 00:15:08.200 --> 00:15:10.600 I think can be summed up with the idea that 298 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:12.240 all religions lead to God. 299 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:15.320 Right. How many times have you heard that? Oh? 300 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:17.200 I think as long as you're religious, as long as 301 00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:20.919 you sincere. Yeah, as long as you have a sincere 302 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:24.320 religious belief, all religions lead to God. 303 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:26.200 Yeah. Let everybody believe what they want to believe. 304 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:27.240 You do you? Yeah? 305 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:31.879 In John fourteen, Jesus said, I'm the Way, the Way, 306 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.879 the Truth, right, the life. No one comes to the 307 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:39.960 Father except through me. So Jesus is saying, I am 308 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:42.879 that narrow gait. There aren't multiple ways to God. There's 309 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:44.759 only one way to God. And that's what he's saying. 310 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:48.840 So what did Jesus do for us? Jesus paid the 311 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:51.559 price that we could not pay. The wages of our 312 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:53.559 sin is death, but the free gift of God. 313 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:54.039 Is eternal life. 314 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:56.879 Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, God demonstrates his love toward 315 00:15:56.960 --> 00:15:59.559 us in this while we were still sinners, Christ died 316 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:04.559 for us. So the only way anybody gets to Heaven 317 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:08.840 is by recognizing they're a sinner in need of a savior, 318 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:13.279 and they trust His grace and mercy to forgive their sins. 319 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:17.960 Because of the sacrifice Jesus paid on the cross, shedding 320 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:20.720 his blood and rising again in the third day. Right, 321 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:22.960 there is no other path, There is no other way. 322 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:23.519 That's it. 323 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:26.360 So there will be people who go Jesus. I was 324 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:28.720 a big fan. I had a bumper sticker, I wore 325 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:31.759 a cross. I even sometimes asked you to help me 326 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:36.279 out right, And Jesus is like, yeah, but you never 327 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:39.320 accepted my gift. You never placed your faith in trust 328 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:41.559 in me as your savior because you're a sinner. 329 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:46.840 Yeah, there are ways to miss salvation. Number One, you 330 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:49.240 know about God, just like you're referring to. Yeah, I 331 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:51.799 was around the things of God. I said, I was 332 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:56.000 a champion of God. But yet you didn't completely embrace, understand, 333 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:59.399 or accept and trust the Lord as your personal savior, 334 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:02.240 understanding that that's the way to heaven or like you 335 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:06.200 said before, which is claiming to be quote unquote religious 336 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:09.519 but ignoring the Jesus part. Right, there's a lot of 337 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:12.519 religions that world religions out there where they would not 338 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:15.559 recognize Jesus as the Messiah. It recognize Jesus as a 339 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:18.839 good man or a good prophet equivalent to Moses or 340 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:22.319 something like that. And by the way, I always feel 341 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:24.960 like I have to say this too, because I have 342 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:28.000 to assume out of the you know, thousands of listeners 343 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:30.359 that listen to us a month, if somebody's out there 344 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:32.839 and they don't understand that part of it, Like, Hey, 345 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:35.720 isn't that a narrow claim Jesus is saying that, you know, 346 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:39.359 it's very narrow minded. Well, I mean, it's a narrow 347 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:43.720 way to heaven through Jesus only, and it's not every religion. 348 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:48.839 But in terms of being inclusive, it's actually it's very wide, right, 349 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:52.079 because only in Christianity are all three of these things true. 350 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:56.759 Everybody's invited, everybody can get into heaven, and everybody is. 351 00:17:58.279 --> 00:17:59.000 Get in the same way. 352 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:01.680 Yeah, I can get in the exact same way. Yeah, right, 353 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:05.079 So everybody can make it. Everybody's invited and everybody can 354 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:07.640 get in the exact same way. That's only true in Christianity. 355 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:11.759 The invitation of Jesus is open for every person. So 356 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:17.640 therefore it's the most inclusive invitation to heaven that exists 357 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:18.200 out there. 358 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:18.599 Right. 359 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:24.079 So this section from thirteen to well we read all 360 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:27.039 the way to twenty nine gives four examples of the 361 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:29.880 choices that we have to make in our lives. Right, So, 362 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:33.480 there's the narrow gate or the broad road. Which one 363 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:34.200 are you going to take? 364 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:37.279 Right, there's the good tree or the bad tree. What 365 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:38.720 kind of fruit are you going to produce? 366 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:43.079 There's the true discipleship or the false discipleship. 367 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:45.359 What kind of commitment are you going to make? Right? 368 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:47.400 Are you going to follow Jesus or not? And then 369 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:51.440 there's the solid foundation or the shaky foundation? What are 370 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:52.279 you building your life on? 371 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:52.799 Right? 372 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:55.960 So it's interesting how Jesus would do that. Sometimes you 373 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:58.640 don't really as I read it, I didn't naturally pick 374 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:01.240 up on it right. Oh, he gave us a whole 375 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:05.079 sequence of choices here. But there's this great note in 376 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:07.160 the life Affication of Study Bible. The highlight of that went, 377 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:10.119 oh that is fabulous. It's true. It was one of 378 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:13.359 Jesus' teaching styles. It's this or that, this or that, 379 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:16.799 and he'd give you the best solution or the consequences 380 00:19:16.839 --> 00:19:18.960 of not going the best solution right in every way. 381 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:21.599 But I've always thought it was interesting, let's talk about 382 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:26.359 the good tree versus the bad tree, because this sounds 383 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:30.079 a little judgmental. Yes, just as you can identify a 384 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:32.119 tree by its fruit, so you can identify people by 385 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:36.039 their actions. What it seems a little judgmental, Like you're 386 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:39.640 measuring people by what they do. And there's good stuff 387 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:42.000 and bad stuff, which means there's good people and bad people. 388 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:45.839 And didn't Jesus say don't judge other people? As a 389 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:48.839 matter of fact, It's interesting he starts chapter seven with 390 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:51.519 that verse. We didn't read it, but chapter seven, verse 391 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:54.079 one says judge not others, or do not judge others, 392 00:19:54.200 --> 00:19:58.240 and you will not be judged. Right, So people would say, gee, 393 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:01.920 it seems a little judge mental to even be paying attention. 394 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:02.799 To the fruit on other people. 395 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:05.640 Yeah, but Jesus is saying, you know, those things that 396 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:09.039 are publican out in the open. If somebody shows you 397 00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:09.920 who they are, believe them. 398 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:11.160 Yeah. 399 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:15.319 If if they're doing good, well then they're probably good people. 400 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:19.319 If they're doing bad, they're probably bad people. That's it, 401 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:21.000