130428 sm 24 most likely to succeed matthew 7 13-14 (abridged)

Lesson 24 in a series on the Sermon on the Mount. Presented 4/28/13 at Palm Desert Church of Christ by Dale Wells.

1. Most Likely to Succeed Matthew 7:13-14 The Disciple’s Handbook Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

2. The Disciple’s Handbook

3. The Disciple’s Choices

4. Two Options – Two Outcomes Matthew 7:13-14

5. Matthew 7:13a NET Enter through the narrow gate …

6. Option One Matthew 7:13b

7. Matthew 7:13b NET … because the gate is wide and the way is spacious that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.

8. Two Options – Two Outcomes The Road to Death: The Road to Life:

9. Option Two Matthew 7:14

10. Matthew 7:14 NET But the gate is narrow and the way is difficult that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

11. Two Options – Two Outcomes The Road to Death: The Road to Life:

12. Two Options–One Choice The Gospel of Jesus OR The Gospel of Oprah?

13. John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

14. Acts 4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.

15. 1 John 5:11-12 God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

16. Which Way Will You Choose?

17. The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference . - Robert Frost

18. Butler Peak Fire Lookout

19. Matthew 7:13-14 NLT "You can enter God's Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. 14 But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.