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Peter Roselle: Choosing the Narrow Gate

Peter Roselle: Choosing the Narrow Gate Peter speaks at King of Kings Worship Center on 7/20/2023 You’ve been “blessed to be a blessing.” (Genesis 12:2) Pay it forward! For more videos, subscribe to King of Kings YouTube Channel here: https://bit.ly/2TRObAR If you need help with a personal problem email info@kingofkingswc.com. Donate to King of Kings here: http://www.kingofkingswc.com/donate/ #peterroselle #kingofkingsworshipcenter Okay so I'm going to the sermon on the mount and that's Matthew chapter 5 6 and 7 and this is in the middle of the last chapter so, it's right near the end of the sermon on the mount and it's when Jesus tells us in Matthew it's really verses 13 and 14 but the title comes from choosing the narrow gate sometimes we say the narrow road that leads to life but it actually says the narrow gate that leads to life so, Lord we ask you to help us just like he had to make a choice when he was confronted in that situation about which way does he lean and he didn't want to offend anyone but he prayed and he listened to you and you told him which gate to walk through it wasn't the easy gate it wasn't the wide gate and the wide road with lots of people on it it was the narrow gate and because of that Lord we are empowered and encouraged today and and we receive the importation for courage because the narrow gate is always the more opposition and the more difficult one in the natural but we're not going for what the world says we want what you say Lord and we know that you care about every single decision that we make we don't want to be legalists we just want to have this open communication with you all day every day in every situation to know which choice to take thousands of decisions that we make everyday thoughts that we have help us to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ in Jesus name amen I don't know about you but I find that to be a really challenging verse to take every thought right like I can't even remember sometimes I get up and go in the other room I can't even remember what I went in the other room for so that ever happened to anybody am I the only one and I'm like what is wrong and then I realize hitting myself on the head is not going to make that better so, we all have that issue of focus and and those thoughts can creep in and look up I'm really not trying to make this legalistic and giving you things that you have to say every morning I'm just trying to help you to stay in a place where your passion remains above neutral for the Lord like right he doesn't want us to be lukewarm you can't always be at a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10 I get it but we don't have to get to zero or negative either and being around other Christians that are fired up for the Lord that don't lean but that take a stand really helps I was I think I mentioned I was reading a book while we were in Italy and and the author was it was the whole book was about the Holy Spirit and it was like if Paul came back one of the things he would be most shocked about is the lack of value we place on the community aspect of church the idea that yes of course it's a it's wonderful that we can look online but we really need to be assembled together with other believers amen so, don't neglect the value of the people that are all around you every time you come together not just the search whatever church you're with that's the body of Christ if their Bible believe in church and spirit filled people that that's the army of God that's the remnant that that we all need to be with so choose the narrow gate that leads to life I'm putting emphasis on choose because so much of life I mean right even in the course of my day I walk into the cleaners and the lady behind the counter I say happy Tuesday or whatever day it is you know like nobody else is saying that to her and she smile because like she's in the rut of this job and like oh here's the guy that's happy it's a choice oh it's only Tuesday man I can't wait till the hump day well okay that's how you want to live but I'd rather live with optimism than pessimism we have the Holy Spirit man we have joy unspeakable so, this is the two verses 13 and 14 enter by the narrow gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and there are many who go in by it because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life and there are few who find it alright so, this is I would I would open it up and say beyond just salvation and walking through the gate of salvation and saying yes, to Jesus which I'm assuming most of all of you here have done then it's a matter of how do I become his disciple how do I keep making better and better choices and like we do with children you wouldn't try to teach calculus to most four-year-olds right, there's an expectation based on where they are in their maturing process but by the same token you would hope that somebody who's 21 years old knows how to give you change from the counter