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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. "STRIVE TO ENTER IN AT THE STRAIGHT GATE."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. This exhortation from Jesus comes as a response to the question, "Are there few that be saved?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The word translated strive is from the Greek word agonizomai which is to struggle or fight. It is a word that speaks of a strong effort, such as running a race to win.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. We get our word agony from the root of this Greek word, the word that was used for Jesus when in the Garden of Gethsemane "Being in agony, He prayed more earnestly and His sweat was as it were, great drops of blood falling to the ground."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. You get the idea of great effort.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. You can't get to heaven in a rocking chair, the Lord don't allow no lazy folks there.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. I wonder if we have not sought to make a broad gate into the kingdom of God that will just about include everyone?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. I fear lest we might be guilty of making it seem that the path is very easy for those who are seeking eternal life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. As a representative of Jesus, I do not want to give false assurance to anyone, I don't want you to be thinking that you are all right when you are not.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The Lord was angry with the prophets that were giving the people false assurances saying peace, peace, when there was no peace.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. As a result of these false assurances the people were continuing in their sin feeling that everything would be OK, and they were actually destroyed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">F. I do not want any of you standing outside the gate when it is once shut, being denied entrance into the kingdom because you misunderstood what it takes to be saved.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. You see, as a minister I have a great responsibility to you to tell you as straight as I can the truth of salvation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. If I do not warn you, then your blood will be on my hands, if I warn you, then it is up to you to do as you wish with the warning, but at least my hands will be clean of your blood.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. God said the prophet Ezekiel,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Eze',3,17);">EZE 3:17</a> Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Eze',3,18);">EZE 3:18</a> When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Eze',3,19);">EZE 3:19</a> Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Eze',3,20);">EZE 3:20</a> Again, When a righteous [man] doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Eze',3,21);">EZE 3:21</a> Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous [man], that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Paul the apostle declared to the elders of Ephesus,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Act',20,26 );">ACS 20:26</a> Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I [am] pure from the blood of all [men].</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Act',20,27 );">ACS 20:27</a> For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Perhaps this is what I am seeking to do this day, declare to you the words of Jesus that will hopefully take from you any false security or false hope of salvation that you may possess.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Some of you may get angry at the things I am going to say, but I would rather have you angry with me now, than to find yourself outside the door being denied entrance and to be angry with me then for not giving you warning.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">G. The general response of Jesus to the question, "Are there few that be saved?" is that there are many who think that they are who are not saved.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">H. Polls show that about 80% of the people in the United States claim to be born again.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. My estimate is that there are fewer than 25% who are truly born again.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. That would mean that 55% of the people who believe that they are born again are deceived.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Paul in his epistles warned several times against being deceived.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('1Cr',6,9);">1CO 6:9</a> Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Gal',6,7);">GAL 6:7</a> Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('2Ti',3,13);">2TI 3:13</a> But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Tts',3,3);">TIT 3:3</a>For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. I do believe that there are many today who believe that they all right with God when in reality they are not.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Paul said to "Examine yourselves to see if you be in the faith, prove your own selves." In another part of the epistle to the Corinthians he said, "For if we would examine ourselves we would not be judged by God."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. "MANY SHALL SEEK TO ENTER IN AND WILL NOT BE ABLE."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. They felt that they should be given a place within the kingdom. Listen to what they say.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Lord, Lord, open to us.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. They are calling Him Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Jesus said, "Not all who say Lord, Lord are going to enter the kingdom of heaven, but He that doeth the will of the Father."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Jesus tells us that the 5 foolish virgins that were outside knocking on the door that had been shut, they were saying, " Lord, Lord, open to us." They were calling Him Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. Jesus said, "Why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and you do not the things I command you?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. Have you truly submitted to His Lordship?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. They will say, "We have eaten and drunk in your presence."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. We have taken holy communion.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. We have attended church regularly, and paid our tithes faithfully.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. They will say, "You have taught in our streets."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. We know and have studied your word.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. I know the 23rd psalm and the Lord's prayer by memory.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. James tells us that we must be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving ourselves.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. How many people are deceived into thinking they are saved because they can quote scriptures.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Listen to what He says,</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. I do not know from whence you are.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Depart from Me you workers of iniquity.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. You may know His word and be living in iniquity.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. This seemed to be the case of these people.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Still living in sin, still being ruled by the flesh, still watching R and X-rated movies, yet still attending the services in the house of the Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Paul warned the Galatians,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Gal',5,19);">GAL 5:19</a> Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Gal',5,20);">GAL 5:20</a> Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Gal',5,21);">GAL 5:21</a> Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. He also warned the Ephesian church,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Eph',5,5);">EPH 5:5</a> For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Eph',5,6);">EPH 5:6</a> Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. WHAT JESUS IS APPARENTLY SAYING IS...</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. We must strive to enter the straight gate, just desiring to enter is not sufficient. "Many will seek, and not be able."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Once the door is shut, your opportunity to enter is over, there will be no second chance after death.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. There will be many standing outside of the shut door who were deceived into thinking that they were going to make it, and who did not. They apparently thought that they could still be saved while living in iniquity, they were wrong.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. There are many pastors today who think that it is their duty to make man feel good about himself. They avoid the word sin, for they do not want to put a guilt trip on anyone. They are actually comforting, and giving assurance to those who are on the way to hell.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. If you are living in Christ, I seek to assure and comfort you today. Surely He is able to keep you from falling and present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. If you are living in sin today, I desire to remove you from your comfort zone, I seek to stir you up. I seek to warn you that you are in danger of being on the outside looking in and not being able to enter the kingdom of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Saying the right things is not enough, many will say Lord, Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Just hearing the word is not enough, they were saying "You have taught us in our streets." We listened to your teaching.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Keeping the ordinances of the church cannot save you, "We have eaten and drunk in your presence." All who are saved will keep the ordinances, but not all that keep the ordinances are saved.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Twice in the early part of this chapter Jesus said, unless you repent, you will likewise perish. To repent is to change, to turn from the life of sin, and begin to live for Christ. You today are either living after the flesh, or living after the Spirit, yielding to the flesh, or yielding to the Spirit. You cannot have it both ways, it is one or the other. They that are after the flesh do have the mind of the flesh. They who are living after the Spirit do have the mind of the Spirit. The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace in the Holy Spirit.</div>
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