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Go into the Narrow Door

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[Luke 13:24]

"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to."

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Jesus was in this world and Jesus told the words of God to many people. Jesus went here and there and told about heaven. The Israelites listened to Jesus but they did not believe that Jesus truly is the Son of God.

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Jesus told them that they should believe Jesus as their Savior to go to heaven but they did not believe in Jesus. They did not believe in Jesus because they had the wrong thinking about salvation. They thought they could go to heaven because their ancestor was Abraham.

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One person listened to Jesus and asked Jesus. "Jesus, then only some people will go to heaven?" They really wanted to know about it.

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Jesus looked at the people and said. "People, try hard to pass through the narrow door. Then you can go to heaven. People always like doing the things they want and they like to live the easy way. People like to go to the wide and easy ways. But if you will go to that way, you will fall down in the end."

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"The door going to the way of life is narrow so only few people go that way. But you should go that way to enter heaven and to live forever. Many people will try to enter heaven but if they will not go to the narrow door, they can never go to heaven."

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The narrow door is Jesus, Himself. At their time, if someone believed in Jesus, that someone should be ready to have many hard problems. The leaders of their time did not believe that Jesus would save them.

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"On the last day, all the people who went to the narrow door will be saved and they will go to heaven. After they enter heaven, the owner of heaven will close the door."

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"After the door is closed, you will come and knock on the door. 'LORD, please open the door.' 'LORD, please open the door.'"

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"Then the owner will say. People, I really don't know you. Who are you? Where are you from?"

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"Then, you will say. 'We ate the bread you gave and we listened to you when you were teaching.' But the owner will say. I don't where you came from. You people are so evil! I don't know you so go away."

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"I know you admire Abraham, Isaac and Jacob so much. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the other prophets will be in heaven but you are sent out so you will cry sadly and you will grind your teeth. "

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"I know you look down on the foreigners. But you will see the foreigners entering heaven and you will see them having a feast with God."

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Jesus is saying that not only Israelites will go to heaven.
Jesus was explaining to them that all the people in this world who believe in Jesus will be able to go to heaven.

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Those people who don't believe in Jesus can do anything they want. To do anything we want is as easy as going into the large door. But in the end, they will go to hell and they will be in torture in that place forever.

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However, we believe in Jesus so we will go into the narrow door and we will live in heaven forever. So when we live in this world, we should live the life of the narrow door. Worldly thinking only thinks about money and that our bodies are our own but they are not ours alone. It is given by God so we cannot use them without care. We should live for the things that can make God happy. That is the life of the narrow door. Dear friends of faith you have become the children of God because you have believed in Jesus. So try hard to live the blessed life of going into the narrow door.

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