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Well, we're in the gospel of 
Matthew Chapter 7. 

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Matthew chapter 7, we are 
getting close to the end, the 

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Lord has been teaching an 
incredible amount of things in 

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this particular sermon and he's 
beginning to wrap it up. 

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In fact, today's passage the 
Lord, outlines two paths, two 

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ways and we'll look at those in 
a little bit of detail in just a

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moment. 
But first, let's read the 

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passage. 
Here. 

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Now, the word of the Lord in 
Matthew 7:13, Enter by the 

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narrow gate for the gate is wide
and the way is easy, that leads 

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to destruction and those who 
enter by, it are many for the 

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gate is narrow. 
And the way is hard that leads 

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to life and those who find it 
are few, the word of the Lord, 

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you may be seated. 
This probably is one of the most

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symmetrical passages you'll find
anywhere in Scripture, it is 

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written very much in Poetic 
style and it's consistent, we're

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looking at two different ways 
and that's what I'm going to ask

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you this morning is to consider 
these two different paths. 

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The word is O dose, or road or 
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Sometimes it means a journey. 
So we're talking about the path 

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of life. 
We're talking about the Journey 

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of life. 
We're talking about what you do 

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with those days. 
As in years, the Lord has given 

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you on Earth and how are you 
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What are you doing? 
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end? 
And it and it lays out pretty 

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simply, there's a mention of a 
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There's a mention of the path in
something about the path. 

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One path is very difficult, it's
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The other path is easy. 
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There's a destination to each of
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One path leads to destruction. 
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There's I don't think there's 
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talking about eternal life and 
eternal destruction death. 

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There's about a half a dozen 
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We won't recount them. 
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each and every one of them had 
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Tell us that at the end of the 
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and then there's a time of 
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punishment. 
And that's where this one leads 

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to the broad. 
Path. 

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Leads to destruction leads to 
Eternal death. 

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I'll use a good word. 
It's the word Jesus used hell. 

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At least a hell. 
It's just that simple over and 

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over in the Bible were called 
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scripture all the way up until 
the very last verses of the 

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Bible. 
We're told that we need to make 

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some discernment. 
Some discretion, we need to make

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a decision. 
We need to decide and choose, 

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which path were on. 
Choose you this day. 

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Whom you will serve. 
Joshua told the people that's in

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the choices. 
Binary, there's only two choices

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then and now, in the days of 
Joshua's, you served the gods 

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that were served on the other 
side of the river by our 

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fathers, or Gods of this Pagan 
land Canaan, but as for me and 

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my house, we will serve the Lord
the other choice. 

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Moses had laid down the same 
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Just half a generation earlier 
when he had said, simply I set 

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before you life and death choose
life that you may live. 

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And the Lord is doing the same 
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us two ways, two paths. 
So let's look at a couple of the

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details concerning each one of 
these and see where it leads us.

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I'll talk first about the gate. 
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The road is a road that has a 
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really is Street and it means it
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It's pressed in on every side. 
In fact that you word is used in

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English to speak of a a 
straitjacket or being straight 

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laced. 
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pushed in. 
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comfortable place. 
The gate is narrow so that you 

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can't carry a lot of baggage 
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The gate is narrow, you've got 
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You can't take some friends or 
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You've got to enter it one by 
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You come through that narrow 
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And that narrow gate is 
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leave all the baggage behind 
especially That which has to do 

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with self and selfishness and 
that which has to do with your 

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sin. 
In other words, it's not easy to

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get into this gate. 
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are few that find it. 
Never mind how few that seek for

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it. 
Few that find it, it escapes 

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most everybody because most 
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gate gate to another road that 
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It is flat, it is open. 
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word plate or the word Plateau 
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You hardly notice it. 
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It's just a looks like just a 
whole big beautiful party and 

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it's a place where everybody 
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It's a place where everybody is 
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It's that natural condition of 
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the life and even though you 
draw your first breath at your 

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birth, you don't worry too much.
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easy. 
It's comfortable, its fly out, 

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there's no stress and it's a 
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because many people are on that 
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company. 
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find all kinds of companions, 
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and you'll be able to get in a 
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comfortable birds of a feather 
flock together and you'll find a

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group of people that you're 
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Able to hang out with, on this 
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The the life there is said to be
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narrow that comes through the 
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hard, and that word, for hard 
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It has persecution. 
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Temptation. 
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Jesus preaches, this material, 
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narrow gate. 
He's already told us, it's few 

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that find it. 
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it? 
And how many you're going to 

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enter it without striving. 
The word is where we get our 

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word agony. 
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exactly the way coming to Christ
was presented to me and some of 

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us were presented Christ is it's
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Christ is going to make your 
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If your teenager, your acne will
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There's just liable to be all 
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It's a place where you can have 
your best life. 

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Now, it's a place where you can 
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Version of yourself. 
It's a place where you'll have 

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health and where you'll have 
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presentation of that particular 
road is marked out as is easy to

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can. 
Jesus said you have to agonize 

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to get there? 
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You have to struggle with 
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You've got to come to some 
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You've got to sober up. and 
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you're headed and the Destinies 
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mentioned before or life, 
eternal life for the constricted

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gate and the Hard Road leads to 
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easy Road leads to destruction. 
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moment to, we have left, I'm 
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I got carried away and I just 
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than I can preach. 
And I remember in seminary, was 

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somebody telling us when you 
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I'm through preaching, but I'm 
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I'm going to met a little and 
I'm going to look on the broad 

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went to Memphis Tennessee to 
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we stayed in a the Hilton wanted
honey. 

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Big old Hilton there in the 
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overlooked a couple of major 
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interstate, and then a big broad
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And I remember, looking out the 
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the two days we were there with 
lots of rain but I can watch The

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traffic go and I could see the 
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everybody basically parked out 
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It looked like and that was all 
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And then there were times when 
the traffic and move and in the 

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wee hours of the morning games, 
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And and I had a chance to just 
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Big broad Highway and that's 
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Very quickly with the broad 
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the broad Road. 
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It's easy, it's a good life 
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In fact, you're not going to 
feel peculiar weird because 

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there's people on the road, just
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It's a comfortable place to be 
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But what's going on out there? 
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There is a path that leads to 
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Let me sketch. 
Just a few things. 

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I'm going to use a real simple 
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I'm going to use the 
Commandments right out of God's 

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word. 
A few of them, not all of them, 

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but you look out there and you 
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health given by God life comes 
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the Lord and we've been given 
that, but what is going on on 

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the broad Road out there on the 
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There were those who are out to 
destroy Humanity And they're out

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there advocating and practicing 
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There's an Insidious move that 
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where there's an effort by some 
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populate the earth. 
The earth has now about 7 

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billion people in. 
They believe that's about three 

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times too many. 
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So you start watching accidents,
public policies, and all sorts 

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of things that are designed to 
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their grave, help them die a 
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never to Be born in the first 
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It's that's what's going on out 
there on the broad Road, there's

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a culture of death, the Lord 
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death. 
So on the broad Road, it may be 

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a comfortable place in a lot of 
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Destruction, the very 
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look on the broad Road and I see
that there are those out there 

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that are committed, not to 
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productivity. 
And all those things that the 

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Lord said about working and 
dressing and keeping and 

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guarding, and saving, and 
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All of those, great positive 
affirmations, that God gave on 

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creation morning to the, to the,
to the humans that were there 

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Adam and Eve the great creation 
mandate but instead they are out

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to destroy. 
Property in the means of 

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production and you see that 
there are government sponsored 

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inflation confiscatory, taxation
income redistribution and the 

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worst of all that destroys is 
the decriminalization of actual 

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theft. 
We're now people that steal a 

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certain amount of money, it's 
just not worth, Prosecuting them

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go to the little Whole Foods up 
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Park and and talk. 
To the security guard. 

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Got to know him. 
He's a lay preacher from the 

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Philippines. 
He's a wonderful man. 

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And I was talking with him Time 
After Time After Time, and he 

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was telling me to. 
Finally, the policy came down, 

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that if someone steals shoplifts
and carries out a whole bag of 

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groceries, or a whole Carter, 
groceries, he's to let him go. 

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He's not to violate their 
rights. 

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He's not to do anything, but 
just let them go. 

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It's just Cost of doing 
business, raise every item in 

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the store, just another 
percentage, and let you and me, 

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pay for it. 
And we're seeing that in more. 

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Or Justice systems where 
criminals are just let go not 

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prosecuted sentences. 
Are shortened. 

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The jailhouse door is opened 
giving carte blanche to those, 

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who would steal. 
What else is going on on the 

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broad Road? 
Well, God gave us marriage and 

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from marriage. 
We are to be fruitful and 

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multiply and have families with 
little babies like that. 

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That's what the Lord wants us to
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But what's going on out there? 
Well, there are those that Would

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destroy God's design with one 
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One woman for one lifetime for 
the purposes of raising children

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for the glory of God. 
Instead we have fornication 

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cohabitation. 
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homosexuality, gender confusion 
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world to pervert and warp that 
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So if you're on the broad Road 
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He's think well, that's just 
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know? 
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broad road is freedom, Don't You
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Do whatever you want to Do 
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seems right to a man, but the 
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death. 
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This death and destruction, Thou
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Well, truth and Justice. 
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broad road is the absolute 
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slander is standard fare for 
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our country, repeated false 
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agencies, Agencies and police 
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identification, calling that, 
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pronounced for the female and 
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created difference and lying 
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Using the language the tongue 
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and communicate in truth and in 
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that we see and we see courts 
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verdicts ridiculous decisions 
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principle of law, just 
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ruling any old miscellaneous 
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attention and you'll see those 
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Not only in but anything that's 
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School boards, making decisions 
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government, bureaucracies who 
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days. 
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under never were under the halls
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They were just put in by edict, 
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it's a pressing God's people. 
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destroys truth and Justice. 
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broad Road? 
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comfortable. 
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covetousness Bible tells us not 
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movement in our country that is 
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reparations. 
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income redistribution for all 
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It's based upon pure ideology. 
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Hell. 
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hell. 
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atheistic without God to start 
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Not the mind of God, they're not
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will of God, they are Godless, 
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place of darkness and that's 
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road, real the politics of in me
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business now is conducted by 
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business with massive profits 
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kick back or how to pay 
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that's gone on the whole wide 
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in the Bible. 
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was waiting on people to bribe 
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know, bribery has been one of 
the ways that that moves, it 

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gambling, gambling of any sort. 
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is what makes gambling, a sin. 
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which you did not earn. 
God did not give you and was not

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acquired by the means. 
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labor, Thrift And in charity is 
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accumulate into keeping to 
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wealth. 
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lottery, hit the jackpot and 
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the tenth. 
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It's a hatred of humanity. 
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The damnation. 
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and your practice in some of 
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comfortable with others, 
practicing it and you think I'm 

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way off base and I'm being harsh
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majority opinion with you 
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broad Road, there's a whole lot 
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lot of what people are doing on 
the broad road is having a whole

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lot of energy put into 
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those that are on the narrow 
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narrow road, we are to strive to
seek to find it, it's pressure 

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on all sides, it's constricted. 
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people on the broad road but 
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I'll tell you, let me just well,
let's see. 

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I'm out of town Tommy. 
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Can you shorten up your service 
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So yeah he's already shortened 
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in the BC, o will let him, let 
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But let me tell you something. 
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We see people on the broad road 
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They are in a bit of a 
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They are following the commands 
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and striving for Holiness. 
They are mortifying sin in their

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life, let not sin, therefore 
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what the scriptures tell us. 
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people on the, on the narrow 
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They're striving and they're 
working, and they're praying for

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sanctification Holiness of Life.
They want their speech cleaned 

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up. 
They want, have kept clean 

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speech, and truthful speech, and
gentle speech, and loving 

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speech, and edifying building up
speech and they're working at 

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it, they're keeping their mouths
shut when they need to and 

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they're opening it when they 
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Going on those things, they're 
loving the brothers there in the

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fellowship of saints. 
They're huddled with that little

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flock, that that the Lord has 
called in to himself there on 

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the narrow road in the narrow 
road is hard. 

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It's not necessarily easy. 
They're seeking to obey the 

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great commandment of love, the 
Great Commission of making 

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disciples, they're practicing 
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prayer. 
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Fellowship, preaching, in 
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they're being Salt and Light. 
They're walking worthy of the 

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call. 
They're bearing witness to the 

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gospel, they're giving forth 
that thing that matters the 

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most. 
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Revelation is the word of their 
testimony, they're testifying 

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and that word testifying In 
testimony, is the word for 

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witness. 
It's the word martyr. 

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What's going on on the narrow 
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Maybe somebody there is going to
face For their faith in Christ, 

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martyrdom. 
Are you ready for that?