Text: Matthew 7:13-29
The hope of every believer is to eventually make heaven and spend eternity with Christ in a city with streets of gold and vast splendors. But so often do we ignore the fact that the way to this eternal bliss is hard and thus, requires we prepare diligently and tenaciously, leaning on the Holy Spirit and God’s grace to have our names written in the Book of Life.
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“Enter through the narrow gate and the way is straitened and compressed that leads away to life, and few are those who find” (Matthew 7:14). The truth remains that very few would eventually make it to heaven. The question now is whether you would be among the chosen few?
History has something to say about this aforementioned point of the few making it to heaven. Remember the great flood that consumed the whole earth in the days of Noah? How many people were saved aside from the animals? (Genesis 7:1-14). Also consider the destruction of the two great nations of Sodom and Gomorrah. How many eventually made it out alive? (Genesis 19). These are vivid pointers to the underlining reality behind the chosen candidates of heaven.
It is, however, God’s desire that all make it to heaven but “many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able” because of various factors that will be highlighted. One of such factors is that some have seared their heart and have chosen the wide and easy way that lead to death- the way of the flesh that cannot please God (Romans 8:6-8).