How do we get into the Kingdom of God? Is it more of a domain or a dominion? Who gets into the Kingdom finally? In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus answered these questions. It turns out it depends on who you know and who knows you. Do we know the King? Message based on Matthew 7:13-14, 21-23.
Quotes:
Dallas Willard: It's not nearly as high as the cost of non discipleship.
Alan Bloom: Nearly every college student enters college with the idea that all truth is relative.
Yogi Berra: If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland:
Alice: “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”The Cheshire Cat: “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”
Alice: “I don’t much care where.”The Cheshire Cat: “Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go.”
Alice: “…so long as I get somewhere.”
The Cheshire Cat: “Oh, you’re sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.”“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.”
Gallup study concluded: The fact that nine in ten Americans are not committed Christians is worthy of concern.
Donald Blesh: The Christian way is not the middle way between extremes. It's the narrow way between precipices.
A.W. Tozer: Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is he the best of several ways. Jesus is the only way.
Duane Brooks: Jesus believed. He was the way. He was the truth. He was the life. I believe Jesus was right.
Soren Kierkegaard: Jesus was never looking for admirers. He was looking for followers.
Alexander McLaren: The narrow gate goes back to the first two beatitudes. On the one side, the margin is poverty in spirit, to be poor in spirit. On the other side, to be mourning over our own sin.
G. K. Chesterton: The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
J. B. Gambrell: Half-right is not right at all!
John Oxenham:
To every person there openeth
a way and ways and a way
and the high soul treads the high way
and the low soul gropes the low
And in between on the misty flats
the rest just sort of drift to and fro'
But to everyone, there openeth
a high way and a low;
And every person decideth
The way his soul shall go!
Take the right road, and you will never regret missing the wrong one.
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