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| A classic sermon illustration |
Rev Benjamin Lee
18 January 2015
Wesley Methodist Church
Bible Text: Matt 7: 13-14
This passage was turning point in the sermon on the mount.
The easy way is the wide way
spaceous
roomy
easy to manoeuvre
no regulations
leads to death.
He had two choice: easy or hard.
Easy was to pack up and go home.
Hard was to labour dangerously.
Piot chose the hard way:
as a result thousands of lives have been saved.
We have two choices: easy way or hard way
Eternal life is at stake.
The bible passage begins with a command rather than an invitation:
Enter through the narrow gate.
The gate is so narrow you have to leave your baggage behind
Leave your past sins behind.
You need to trust God
Put your trust in Jesus.
The narrow way leads to life
The narrow way requires
mildness
purity of heart
and can be said to be restrictive
and is hard to travel on.
Yet liberating
true
good
His yoke is easy, his burden light.
Rev Benjamin had a turning point in his life when one sunday in church sitting in 4th back pew on the right he understood three key points
God will never leave you
Seek and you will find
Knock and the door will be opened.
From then on he decided to follow the narrow way.
A middle age couple was once lost amidst a dense bush of rhododendrons:
below the dense plants nothing grew..
is this a parable of your life
trapped by the lure of the world
in sin so nothing grows?
Are you following the easy way?
Do you need to change directions?
signalling to the light he sent a message "steer 10 degrees north"
came the reply "steer 10 degrees south".
Angrily he replied "I am captain: steer 10 degrees north"
came the reply "I am 3rd class seaman steer 10 degrees south."
Even more angrily he replied "I am captain of battleship: steer 10 degrees north"
came the reply "I am 3rd class seaman of lighthouse : steer 10 degrees south."
What sort of directions are you following?
Will the path you follow lead to death or to life?
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