Matthew 7:14

¹⁴ Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

To better understand the above passage we need to go to the Gospel of John chapter ten verse nine.

John 10:9

⁹ I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

In the above passage Jesus Christ claimed Himself to be the door. Now let us look at the meaning of the word ‘door’. In Hebrew language, the door is called ‘Pethach’ which can mean doorway, entrance, or an opening. The writers in the Gospel of Matthew and John use different words. Matthew uses the word gate and John uses door. Although doors are typically part of a building, while gates are typically part of a fence. Doors provide someone access to something, while gates control access to something by a flow of people. Whether it is the door or the gate the purpose is to let someone pass through.

For example the king’s palace has both doors and gates as well. Usually there is the main door or the main entrance that lets inside the palace and similarly a main gate that allows to the outside of the main door through a garden. A castle is surrounded by a huge wall that acts a fence and it has a big gate. No one can enter into that palace without entering through the main gate first.

Lord Jesus Christ Himself is the gate and the door. In the Gospel of John chapter fourteen and verse six, Jesus declared that He is the way to the Father.

John 14:6

⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am the way, ………….. . No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Jesus said in the above passage from Matthew 7:14, that He is that gate. The gate that is narrow. Here narrow means the way of Christ alone. No one can go through Mary, or other dead people to Jesus. One has to approach only Christ to get saved. You see Lord Jesus Christ’s ministry on this earth lasted for about three and half years. During those years, Jesus went through lot of difficulties. His Life was filled with persecutions, burdens, trials, temptations, and in the end He was crucified on a Roman cross. Until Jesus came into this world people did not know the way to God the Father. The people of this world did not know who the Father was. The Jewish people did not know how to reach out to God the Father of the Universe. They were lost in their traditions also called the works and did not know how to please the Living God. Year after year they were offering sacrifices of goats and other animals blood as an atonement for their sins. Killing innocent animals and shedding their blood. This process was to be done as a ritual year after year called the Yom Kippur.

Jesus Christ was sent by the Father to abolish the temporary animal sacrifices year after year. The death, burial and the resurrection of Jesus Christ resulted in setting free of those who were living in bondage of sin and slavery once for all. The death of our Lord was the most painful and most heinous in nature. Because of the Lord’s death and His resurrection, any person from any race or tribe has been given the opportunity to inherit the Kingdom of God once they confess and repent of their sins and ask Christ to come into their hearts by believing in the Father through Jesus Christ. The only way for any person to enter into the Kingdom of God is through Jesus Christ. There is NO other way. All the other ways orchestrated by men lead to a wide gate that leads to death and eternal separation from Lord Jesus Christ.

Have you received the free gift of salvation through Christ Jesus? It is not too late. The Bible in Acts 16 verse 31 says this:

Acts 16:31

³¹ So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your household.

In Jesus precious name! Amen.

Maranatha!

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