Aleppo, Haley and happy Lord's Day to everyone.
And for this morning or for for today, we will be hearing a
sermon delivery that was originally preached and written
by Pastor Keith Davis. Hit the bull.
I've been reached the vessel United Reformed Church in
Calgary, AB and this was originally preached last July
2021. And we are allowed to present it
to you and to contextualise it and translate it into Filipino.
Some of it barraport sating needs capital.
As we start. I think on everyday of our
lives, we make series of choices.
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decisions now you know, or penile for example, an uncool
lane and dammit. And I think you should sorting a
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among some training just to make sure that as we celebrate the
Lord's Day, we are filled and sanded and just the emails
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unsafe at some of the decisions scenario, for example, similar
decisions then Mabuti choices, Naito I baggy lemon.
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changing decisions. Not necessarily Marlene and the
midnight and going to suit 19 not necessarily in apparent life
make life changing decision. Cilla Parramatta naman satin
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continent and compared like for example annoying corso and
honing Coca-Cola here. Those are serious decisions that
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in America. Yeah, Senatobia Billingham bai
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It's a serious decision for each and everyone of us.
We consider this as more significant choices that we make
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decisions in life parodying Dada answer is some crossroads or so
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nothing that I NE Daniela contact laying back up Rachael
Bennett goes up and young aspect of making choices young aspect
of choosing their path and I want us to think about this
passage from Matthew 7 in that perspective in prima Halligan at
midnight in Sebagai NATO combat scripture reading nothing arena
in which elder Charlie have has read for us.
Jesus describes 2 roads that we had two very different paths to
take, two very different directions and leading to two
very different destinations such andito, the one passage small,
it is narrow and it is called difficult.
That's the one pass and there's another path that was provided
and that is a path that is broad, that is wide and that is
easy. In Panasonic and Kanina at Napa
Chalegana Mahita natin dito nahin they described them Hindi
language in explained classic. This are two different choices
and very important choices. Constantina Tower really sad is
sad. We are to make a choice.
We are to acknowledge that this is a decision.
And Christ wants you and me to envision ourselves standing at
that crossroads. And we must choose.
That's what we are to see here. And we must walk one path or the
other. And which one will we take?
That's why the Tory tale of our sermon this morning is one way
or the other in batting title. And in this passage, Jesus calls
his people to choose the narrow path.
Indiana just now. It depends on how you could
choose anything in that's good. But no, he encouraged us and he
commands us to choose the narrow path.
And we have two points for the ceremony.
The first point is the choice that Jesus presents.
And secondly, the pathways that Jesus describes in promoting the
long headings for this morning. And before we proceed, they
encourage everyone to to bow down their heads and let us pray
before our God. Heavenly Father, we submit
ourselves to you and to Your very word.
We have read, we have heard, and we desire, ohh Lord, to learn
from Your very word. We acknowledge that we can't
understand it on our own. We need your God.
We need Your Holy Spirit to enlighten us, to open our hearts
and allow your words to grant power in our lives and to mold
us to be more like your Son. Guide us today, ohh Lord, and
lead us more to Christ and this we pray in Jesus name, Amen.
Amen. And for the first point that we
have that choice that Jesus presents.
I think first heading and as we begin with this point Malaguena
Babalikan 18 or context scripture that vaccinating and
as we know this is part of the sermon series that we have
pertaining to the sermon series of Christ in the Sermon on the
Mount simulator Samathu 5 Matthew chapter 5 don't think
series, but don't close the ceremony of the mount at night,
but details of Chapter 7 and he's already drawing the sermon
to a close. He's already leading us towards
the conclusion. I don't know, I don't want to
act in the section at all. That is the section at all.
And adding unknown sermon and just we might expect from the
greatest evangelical minister on earth, he calls his listener to
make a decision. The 19 Nakita Nakita 19 Sermon
of the Mountain Ito in Compania de Nella Young ceremony to mine
you should be in Mullah situation where in his preaching
and his teaching to those who are just merely like passively
listening to him passively listening to whatever it is that
he's teaching. Starting from Matthew 5 young
people might Jesus he does a Chapter 7 Papunta NASA direction
in which he's already guiding them towards this active
response. The servant that he has.
He's not anymore just allowing them to just listen, but he
wants them to see this reality that they and even us today
should make a choice. Panchina think combination again
engaged the crowd and it's not just anymore just telling them
those things but commanding and allowing them to be engaged with
the preaching that is telling here.
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And each one of them must choose which way to go.
I think the fact that we that there are only two paths three
years we could see here is very significant for us to
understand. The fact that there are only two
choices here is very significant and very important for us to
point here. It follows that same framework,
the same kind of comparisons and contrast between two sides.
And I think as we have read our our matches 7 earlier, we could
notice that there are there is this framework of choices upon
choices and upon comparisons from one aspect or one object to
another. For example, so verse 15 and 16
Mahita Nathan of how Jesus speaks about a false prophet,
you know good profit company Malalaman Concino Ontoto at
Concino and Bulang Profeta and Jesus says by their fruit the
rest by their fruit that you should know them.
And even in verse 17 to 20, Ganon din Emmanuel parallelism
dito now made the long puno down Makabayan Bunga 1 is a good tree
that produces good fruit and one is and the other is a bad tree
that produces bad food. And then in verses 21 to 23,
Jesus mentions two kinds of people.
Those who claim that they know God they believe in and they
proclaim that they believe in Jesus, but in reality they
don't. In addition, I think and then
there are those who really do know God because they do the
will of the Father in heaven. And finally, in the last section
of Chapter 7, Jesus describes 2 houses built on 2 very different
foundations. Youngster, I go ASA Bohan and I
think it's a I go out sabato adito banging on satin go.
I know, Mangyari said. The long Bai, NATO and the Lube
or Baggio? How are you?
Sheena Punda son indole akait dimanum Whelan at Baguio at
kahit baa baa Indian problem NATO.
Yeah, Mahina opened the Sonnet alumna, then topic The Thing and
then Baggio me and then I've been eating and preaching this
passage in this section Ganito Yun framework or back at
janitorial again consistent examples and set up the
Ginuwine. So Chapter 7 And in showing us
this side by side comparison, Jesus is emphasising the fact in
this life that there are only two directions.
Thank you Janet and detain Guinto in emphasised that there
are only two directions in this life.
There are only two paths, there are only two options and there
are only two destinations that we are to acknowledge and to be
reminded of. Sarong ito wala pong, middle
ground. So choice is NATO.
Well, I'm well, I'm well. I'm third option time Mariquita.
There is no or there are no other pathway to choose, but
rather choose one or the other. On that very point, author John
Stott points out that what Jesus says here is not very popular in
the day of age and an age that we have right now.
Okay, Amanda, just preaching at Jesus Jumper.
I've been up when Patton calls Samana Reading syncretism and I
know how being syncretism, but I know be in or I know you know
syncretism is and Oregon paniniwala concern Cilla I Hindi
sila in Hindi lamang yes and syncretism marami radios
naniwala and marami Rd. Religions that depending on
people at Constance, Maniniwala, even the Philippines period.
The distinct aspect of syncretism is this.
Now Kahitna IBA IBA and Paniniwala Napili 2.1 Dina mando
itos is One Direction Lama the Google app, Skype or Google Maps
scanner directions assurance don't even pass.
And Billy IMO is some direction long though at.
And I hope and pray that we would be reminded that this is
not true and this is not right and this is not what the
Scripture says about this matter.
So what Jesus says here would be considered highly insensitive
and offensive to many people today if we would be hearing
this preaching or throughout this world.
Indeed politically correct but and Kenyan Prince and acceptable
Buchanan indeed saying Totoro pero play safe Lang just to make
sure now while his preaching is while I'm off in the heightened
sino. That's not how we see it here.
Here's only concerned. His only concern is the state of
man's soul. That's it.
And that is why he is preaching is so direct and deliberate.
Well, I'm Gray area. Well, I'm play safe and straight
to the point of what is important for us to understand.
Ama papansinin dito. Also is that Whelan making
provision and acting on Paris? She Sai well religion antinoro
on that perspective as well. Cause you've been apparel
against someone for me feeling and specifically religion sub 8
Parasol and Dion annually Religion or discussion.
Vito will passage passage about that don't okay Jesus silane
Manhattan Hindi naniniwala my language.
In other words, what we could learn here is that not choosing
a path, as we know that there are two paths to take.
Not choosing a path is not an option.
You either you are either for Jesus here or you are against
Jesus. And this aspect, it picks up.
Hello Chemo Papakinggan Catalani sus while Toro my lung it at my
infierno. It is basically the same thing
as rejecting Jesus himself and unwillingness to believe
anything is still a choice and it leads directly towards the
pathway of hell. You may choose or not.
If you may say. It depends on what I believe in,
if you may say. But still not making a choice.
It's still a direct path towards destruction and health as John
14 verse 6 says and as Jesus declared.
Jesus said to him, I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.
That is what Jesus is continuously teaching us right
now. And that is essentially the same
message, the same gospel that Jesus is preaching here in the
verses that we have here in Matthew 7.
Apple Mango and this aspect of us being reminded of what Christ
is truly and perfectly portraying here.
Like anything Bandana my booting Balita and acting Epping a bad
time minor matanda patuli na pina pina payag Josh it did not
booting balita in another wagon salahat namani wala at
magtiwala. Jesus, paras thing, what's going
on? And I'm dapat satin simula
palamang but rather unclick. Doesn't Supermama Geet and
Lamang Kamatayan at Mulling Bristol?
That's a very gospel of God. And just as Jesus presented the
gospel to the people in his day, so he presents it continuously
to us right now here. Mayaro Patuli parents Tayo
Nothing really new company Wagon and Solitaire and Natalya
Maniwala at Motivala Summer booting Balita at the bar to put
our faith and trust in the name of Jesus Christ.
Okay, you win and Dylan come back doing Binabasa the night
and nothing Pastor Young preparatory form during Lord's
table. No Marine igniting next next
Lord's Day from Union. In addition, parking on Taylor
malapit mismo in Jesus we are coming to eat and drink of the
gracious provision that He has made to us and for us through
His body and blood. And that gospel demands a
choice. The gospel demands a verdict.
Tai patulin tinatawag para pumili Sahara hai.
Participant in on Julie Lamont Nama Bubu hai para Sajil
Naganathan Let us always practice the discipline of
continuous self examination. My friends, we need to pray to
the Lord to reveal us our sin, the deep sorrow that we have,
and to be mindful of how sinful we are and to show us all the
ways in which we are to be commended.
To follow Him, for us to be led towards that path that pleases
God, to turn away from our sin and to submit ourselves to
Christ as sums 139. Verse 23 to 24 says Search me
ohh God and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts and see
if there would be any grievous way in me and lead me in the way
everlasting. That's our first point, the
story and the message of our sport.
Our first point is always this. It's always a choice.
There is no neutral ground in this life.
It is Christ, it is Him. It's all or nothing happened.
What happened? Even the so it's either you
choose Him, it's either we submit to Him or we accept that
reality that if we reject Him, we are doomed towards that
everlasting wrath of God towards us.
Mean by that would lead us to the second point now in the 1919
that there's only two points that there are there's only two
paths for us to consider. Second point we are to discuss
the pathways that Jesus describes here.
So I Lili Patna dunsany understanding a Maryland Dalung
decisions adding buhai my own importance or young situations
and within those two directions that we are talking about here,
Ama papansin attended to in the Long Diana.
Nothing in Hindi has Hindi shows same path.
Jesus says here that there is a narrow and small path, and there
is also a broad and wide path to take.
At least Chapada Ankonde, Pathiyum Gate, Nandanam missus,
Young gate events have been a toy.
I'm starting point, no direction.
I'm starting point now pass have been open, for example, goes up
and attended to you young wide gate that we are talking about
here. This is described as the easy
way of life. That's the path that is being
described here. It is described as the easy way.
It is the road that many find and many choose to travel in and
out. Simply Lambo now explanation of
Jesus me to come back at the top easy pass and the path that many
choose and it is because it is the path that we are born to
take as fallen sinners. It's as simple as that.
The reason why it is easy. The reason why is it is broad
and easy and many take it. It is because we are born to
take that path because of our sin.
The Bible teaches us that we are conceived and born of sin.
It makes have been sobrang at home ties at the island natural
pussy into diets A sinful nature in American tayo the anatomy
pattern sobran familiarisation ahead then I think maybe hai
aduma andito sadanand item. This is where we by nature
desire to walk. This is where we by nature love
to walk. The parents arena Senate and
demanded I think Bahai Cristiano all of us here are proclaiming
and professing that we are Christians and I'm nothing to
tell you don't aspect of broad path Natal.
We feel this in within our hearts and within our our flesh
that we know this path is indeed easy to take.
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kasalanan meron tayo. Indulging our lustful desires
always seem to be easier and not just easier.
Indulging our lustful desires and sinful desires seems more
pleasurable than doing what is right before our God.
That's the reality that we are seeing here.
Because of our sin, it is not just easier but also pleasurable
in our sinful flesh to go against the path that Christ
points us to go. Okay, Makita da patinating
alalahanin patum calls direction ito namala waggot malaking Dan
pero alumna Tina Hindi maganda is he pinpointed entire?
For example, even mature back at Bago Pattaya exposed on Monday
to someone. Do I know how much Madeley at
must mobilise to go in Nagaland at impact?
For example, I think kapatid rating Kalaro or Pinson.
I mean I go against us in a Sir or Canary.
I think I know on natural tendency in America by nature by
natural tendency and gusto nating goen as gusto nating
automatically in the Bumawi Nathan Kate Babawiin at Insula
when you're in Hampstead going at 10 and gusto naten Bavarian
but not insulated at India was natangap 19 Gunde marshmallow
Hasna Hampas Anguston going 19 compared to Nottingham pass
because we want to take revenge and that's the problem.
And that's the natural tendency that we had because that's the
easy way to do it, because that's the sinful and natural
tendency that we have to do with the broadcast that Jesus is
talking about in our lives. Backup time my exposure.
This is natural to us. This is the natural direction
that we were having and we were taking had the broad path is a
pathway of least resistance was muddling my iron someone doing
American Pie on my own. Yeah.
Squandermania Dito. It is the pathway of human
indulgences. Okay, how are you?
My businesses thrive. Trigger sin and they will
succeed. Eat all you can and it will
trigger gluttony. Nearby people wants great beauty
and outside beauty and they will invest on that desire.
People once lost people with desire and have those sexual
tendencies. That's why everything is tinted
or hinted with that kind of images, to seduce and to attract
the natural tendencies of men. This is the pathway of human
indulgences, a pathway of no loss, no rules, and no restrain.
Hello Nathan. Applicable Lam Batasan manga?
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They getaway with it. That's a problem in this world.
It is a pathway of sinful pride, the pathway of selfishness, of
decadence and self satisfaction That it's all about being
satisfied in this life. I told Dana I love this and
earthly pleasures, earthly riches.
It's all about self fulfillment, of achieving something for
myself, for myself, because of myself, seeking for happiness
and satisfaction, even if it's whether it's right or wrong.
He creates that this idea, this ideal world, this perfect world
that it is setting, in which the direct basis of all our goals
and all our ambitions is towards self.
That's the problem of this world.
Meaning all desires should primarily cater to self and no
one else. That's the reality that we have
in this world. But in the reality of this, in
the light of the Scriptures and the truths that we're seeing
right now, the broadcast, the wide pass that we see here is
the pathway of the foolish and self deceived.
It is the first three of those who think they're doing what is
right, but in reality they're doing something that is against
the design and the will of God for us.
It is the pathway of the spiritually blind.
It is the pathway where Satan himself is leading everyone who
will follow him right to the very peak of hell and the wrath
of God. This is our world, my friends.
This is the darkness and the reality of this wide path that
God is explaining in the Scriptures.
Panama, Panamanian Tinuturo, now I think Duos, the narrow paths.
Jesus says that there is also this narrow path, the small gate
that few would find and few would take.
I think barking at Maryland really to come back at me about
Ganon and description again. Dan Patton and to and
description nagging, laminating duos.
To have it narrow, to have it, to have it set in a very small
gate, and to being as being described that only few people
will find it. And to answer that we have to
remember that Jesus is comparing these two paths requirement as
you go back to the Broadgate medical requirement Paramacharya
and Magadan Tayo Mahal abroad path 19 scriptures meron bataya
matandaan requirement Paramakudi Andy just easy pass.
Actually we know and we could read in scriptures now what will
happen requirement Parramatta and doing some locking gate
number Madali Malapad. There is no requirement at all
and all we have to do actually, it's to remain who we are and we
are there already. There's no requirement because
you just have to be who you are to be true with yourself, to
live this life the way we want to live and to do the things the
way we want to do without any laws, without following any
instruction, seeking to find autonomy and everything that we
have in life. Isabella so small gate and
narrow pass the path that leads to salvation.
What is the requirement? What is God's requirement for
this? It requires change.
It requires transformation. It requires regeneration.
Protect a pattern. Is there parking 97 paraguana
mangano requirement? I don't want to annoy Indians of
passage then in the tournament message specifically said
Matthew 7 but the whole of the Bible says it so koala lanahan
punati nasina been Cristo Nicodemus John chapter 3.
It says here unless a man is born again, he cannot see, or
rather he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
And that's the very point. Unless we are born again, my
friends. Combat Balikan attended quote
Kayhan at Indiana thankya such as really not nothing.
Nabuhay Namuli to be born again. We can't be born again but with
ourselves or by ourselves. Being born again is something
that God must do for us, not us for our own sake.
Do you not think I improves as a really not annihilating it on
our own? It means that God must do it in
our hearts and in our souls by the working of His Holy Spirit.
So in order to walk the narrow path, one must first of all turn
to the one true God, who alone can put our feet on the narrow
pathway. This setting for us.
That means, as we said earlier, that we must come to Christ and
believe in Him, saving any Peterson Acts chapter 4.
And there is salvation and no one else.
Again, there is no salvation. There is salvation and no one
else. For there is no other name under
heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
And we know what that name is. That name is Jesus Christ and no
one else. That name is His name alone and
nothing else. Dipoto Sepang Island in Mama
Mary, Dipoto said they put away Buddha Nipo Zapalenie, Mohammed
Hindi sa Pangalan Nikki Boloi. He needs a concina montao had
indeed in possessory Lang natin kondisa pangala mang Jesus at
walang IBA sania lambo is nothing to maintain or do or
Mahan. Nothing.
I said sad, and I think I mean in the tie you I Masalan and at
Mutangana is Sang Kahi Bagan and Mabuhay.
It is foolishness and folly to think that we are to live for
ourselves and for our own desires alone.
For we are to be reminded that we are here not for our own
sake, but for the glory of God who created us and has given us
this life. It is to have that desire to
belong to Christ and to live our lives for His glory and for His
purposes. It is to die unto ourselves and
to live and to Him. That's the first reason.
But also there's a second reason why Jesus is explaining it like
this. A second reason why Jesus
described the gate as small and a pathway so narrow for us to
take. And it is because it is an
accurate description of the Kingdom of God as seen to the
eyes of men. I think Patulin Pinapaalala sat
in And this is the description of the Kingdom of God, that
there is this smallness in it, that there is this hidden
quality in the Kingdom of God. In a man's eyes, the Kingdom of
God seems small and seems undetectable.
That's why only few would find it.
For example, Mapapansin. Well, it's.
Yeah. As we recall, some of the
parables of Christ Jesus describes his Kingdom as being
as tiny as a mustard seed, or even as a hidden treasure that
is buried in the field. That's what we could see here.
Marita Dinah and 2nd paranoid about donating and I think on
someone in the smallness of the reality of it, the meekness and
the humility of God when he came to this world, coming in a human
flesh, coming in a very tiny infant being born of a virgin.
I could consider the 19 and it should and even his presence,
his outward appearance. Will I tell you my Papa and
Sinner, my Papa song anything remarkable about his physical
appearance at all in this smallness and humility that he
has something as Isaiah 53 verse 2 for he grew up before him like
a young plant and like a root out of a dry ground.
He had no form or majesty that we should look at him and know
beauty that we should desire for him.
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since I've been alive Ganondorf is he being my name Common Nandi
muna Papan Singh most common Padoan Sai.
There is no beauty, no form or majesty that we could see in his
physical appearance. But also description at the
images in Africa bro, similar pictures, similar movies about
him, Young Guapo Magandang Mata Mata along now perfect not
perfect you symmetry at Mugabe. This is not the biblical
description of who Christ is, my friends and even some of my
disciples there. If we could still see that
smallness and humility. Initially, people manga pantas
intending scholars during their time, but rather he chose those
people who are simple. The highs?
Most of them are indeed Nakatapos barrel.
Most of them are fishermen's. Focus on their craft.
Not well learned, not well thought in terms of thinking and
intelligence and philosophy or anything during their time.
And even in his ministry, Jesus identified himself among tax
collectors and sinners. And it was this Jesus who came
to save his people in a most unusual, in a very scandalous
way of saving them, by becoming sin for his people, by bearing
the curse of sin for our sake, by suffering and dying a
shameful and a cursed death at the cross.
Never was there a man so badly shamed and humiliated as Jesus
was, someone who claimed to be the Son of God being crucified,
naked and beaten. Shameful and scandalous.
Okay, I see Natalie close who would put their faith in a man
like this who claimed to be the Saviour and King if he is in the
state of humiliation. For this reason, Jesus was a
stumbling block to the Jews who sought or who looks for more
glorious Messiah, who looks for that great King image like the
one in King and the King David and Jesus.
Jesus was foolishness to the creeks, to the Greeks who sought
a higher wisdom. But the reality is, it's just
that they don't see Christ the way people should see him
because there is this smallness that there is this hidden image
that can only be seen by the people who are made to see Him
and His glory and beauty and majesty.
It's just that they don't see it that that's why they consider it
foolishness that they could. That's why they consider Christ
as a stumbling block for those people.
But As for Apostle point, as as Apostle point, Paul pointed out
that those whom God has called Christ is both the power and the
wisdom of God. Akmali ban saree sonam.
And there's also a third reason, and this is the last reason.
This pathway is called narrow and the path as difficult and it
is because the way of Christ is the pathway of suffering.
It is a pathway of sacrifice. It is a pathway of self denial.
While following Jesus will ultimately lead us to great gain
in heaven and and indeed we would gain everything if we
follow Him, it will it will almost assuredly cost us
something here on earth. And not just something, but
everything in order for us to truly follow Him.
Sacrificial pinagusapan attend dito a Hindi basta basta at
kahit na umama nagsasabi na silaha Cristiano she learning
missmalini wasson nappanee wala and it's a pathway of suffering,
pathway of selflessness, selflessness and self denial.
Then Angustown Ibang proclaiming Christians is you would still
demand prosperity. We would want prosperity in this
religion that we have Mama town self-proclaimed Christians, but
their primarily primary purpose of their living is still about
health, still about wealth, and it's still about prosperity.
There's no aspect of really giving up everything for Christ.
There's no aspect of willing to accept challenges and sacrifices
for the sake of really following him.
In Matthew 19, Jesus speaks of those who made great sacrifices
to follow Christ, who gave of things in this life,
relationships, even in this world, all for the sake of
believing on Jesus and following him.
Sabi said Matthew 19, verse 29. And everyone who has left houses
or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands
meaning properties, for my sake, for Christ's sake, will receive
a hundredfold and will inherit it turned a life.
It picks up in Martin Dee Matt Indian sacrificial Ditto.
And as we look at the scriptures, Martin didn't him
sacrifices Nabigay Discipulo, Parachristo, Marami Sakanila
Kenya Hangang, Sakanila Kamatayan.
They were marketed martyred for their faith and that goes as
well to all who follow Christ. Jesus calls us to take up our
cross and follow Him, to be willing to suffer loss, to
suffer suffer shame and dignity, position and the status in this
life, all for the sake of being counted as His disciples.
And in our day-to-day lives, there are choices, my friends,
that we make that will show the world and that will show others,
that will show our friends, that will show our families and even
our neighbors. Pinapakita nietos.
Machoism, marantao, concino, concini, nothing.
So I think, Bohai, are we following Christ or following
our own selves at all? Jesus calls us to put Him first
and no one else. To follow His ways as we
proceed, then, as we hold on to our marriages, to follow His
words and our friendships in our workplaces and in times of
temptations, to still follow and obey Him when we are tempted to
indulge in our sinful desires. And to think of it this way, the
question is not really what we will choose or what path we will
take, but the reality is who we will choose in this life.
We're not talking about path anymore, but we're talking about
him, whether we choose him or not.
People in Barnard and Missus or people in Athens, Patula,
Sarili. People in Banati, Sudan and
Kenya. The Anakana Young 1802 Satin and
also need some mondo na patuli namula mala had sadan Napa
zacapa Hama Khan and make no mistake about it, walking the
narrow path is difficult. It's hard and it's unpopular.
Has he said that Kaito Marionette, 15.
As we acknowledge ourselves to have that desire to walk on this
path, there will always be times that we can or we might look at
what's happening in this world. Papatingin ties some Mundo at
patinating my easy. Did you get a granola?
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Tama Committed and Sapata Padma. Is it not in a bucket?
Part of my most exciting Dan must Messiah Paramus may thrill
Sabila, and that's the reality that we could see outside.
That means inserting Kahina and Petty Panathinaikos in the
bucket. Pattern must be blessed among a
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imbuing Mamma Samantha Hao too high comfortable Mayaman
magandang buhay come someone that entire eto naghihirap
natitiis means Maggie keep it or means in Nowlan park attendant
in London. I'm at Pangani B had made and at
maritime padding Mahajan the fact that the island now
actually I'll make Dylan come back the path no matter entire
when we are stubborn when we go back and desire for the things
of this world and all of us have stumbled, my friends and fallen
and even wandered from the pathway at one time or another.
But this is the comfort that we have.
In this reality, God is faithful.
God is faithful. Our faithful Shepherd has come
after us and he finds us and he brings us back to the pathway of
righteousness. It is not us who can do it on
our own. It is not based on our
faithfulness, but primarily based on the faithfulness of God
and not us. Temple.
I know people in Athens ghetto. Which path will you choose in
this life Today? The Gospel calls you.
It calls all of us to choose the narrow path that leads to life.
And I want to close with a word of encouragement and challenge
from Hebrews 12 verse one to three.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud
of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin which
cling so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is
set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfector of our
faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of
the throne of God. Consider him who endured from
from sinners such hostility against Himself, so that you may
not grow weary, are faint hearted, and then.