@Lizbeth ....Epi is a lousy shot anyway and misses the target, every time. when the truth is hitting him in the face.
So, Epi is again bringing out another one of his favorite whips to you as he did to me, of striving to go through the narrow door/gate again. And he thinks we have not yet made it, and we then need his help, to listen to his erratic gospel and to heed his warning if we do not. This type of false thinking, overactive and premature judgment on his part, will be his undoing. He needs to take great care to know he himself has gone through salvation's door first.
Being as he is, so hyper and lost in focus and sight of the true gospel, does he know why 'the door' is called narrow, of a simple explanation?. And forgotten why, who and when Christ spoke these words.
His way of striving and successfully going through this very small door is to jump into hyperspace, into the Kingdom that only a few is privileged to experience, and he is one. There are many genuine believers who has lived in this glorious peace of this high realm that he. He should be very thankful he has experience such peace, as this is most probably true.
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Luke 13:22-30 Entering through the narrow door
22 He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23 And someone said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them, 24 “Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 25 When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’ 26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’ 28 In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out. 29 And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God. 30 And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
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First the audience: local Judahites not modern day folks..
They assumed they were automatically shoe-ins for the Kingdom of God because of their genealogy, ancestry and their unique connection to Abraham and God. And also, many of them ate and drank with Yahshua. We are 'in like flint' they thought. Many thought that the Kingdom of salvation was of a physical nature, not spiritual. They wanted an invincible King to repel their enemies.
Yes, they were physically related to Yahshua in various ways, although not in a spiritual way.
This was the reason for the conversation that Yahshua had with Nicodemeus..John3:3 It is the Spirit of God that brings one through the narrow door, to possess Christ, his spirit. There is NO other way.
The Judahites were still under the law, they were proud people, sinful, not very humble, and above all, unrepenting of their sins. This was their spiritual report card like most people in the same world today.
The door to salvation was Jesus himself, speaking right at them. God made the symbolic door 'narrow' by design. As there is no other name under heaven to bring salvation. It was the name of the Son of God. Only ONE NAME the one person called Jesus/Yahshua. Most did not get it as many today, even in some Christian circles. It is a narrow door because there are not numerous ways to salvation, only ONE.
Then, as today, people who search for spirituality in themselves and outside of themselves can find hundreds of ways to their version and false salvation.
In the common carnal natural inner man state of heart it is impossible to find the right door without the influence of God's spirit knocking on it, period. If they never had this holy miraculous experience, they then are seeking their salvation door using the wide road.
They use the common natural WIDE road that leads to many doors of false salvation, not to the narrow path and door of true salvation.
They will of course try and make a very good effort to strive to get through to what they think is the narrow door, only to find their own salvation, as it will not be the 'right' door however. Christ will not be it. They will try in earnest, and not be able to get in. Verse 24b...
For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. They will bring in their sinful nature, unrepentant of their sins, lacking humility and full of pride. They refuse or reject the gospel of peace, salvation in the Kingdom.
And for professing Christians today, the main reason why they will strive and never get on the right path to the narrow door is because they have been led astray by zealous false teachers preaching a wrong Christ and a wrong gospel. Beware!
If one knows they possess the Son's spirit, given by the Father who also demonstrates real fruits of the spirit with dynamic and strong faith, then they have already arrived, through the narrow door called Jesus the Christ. We are humble, thankful and repentant of our sins and hate the sight of them like a destructive plague...amen
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