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1. Prior to their entrance into the Promised Land, Moses recited the terms of the Law to the nation of Israel. He concluded his remarks with a strong exhortation, a call to action, a single choice with two different outcomes.

Deuteronomy 30:19, I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants

2. In similar fashion, Jesus concluded His Sermon on the Mount with a strong exhortation, a call to action, a single choice with two definite, different outcomes, outcomes that impact this life and the life to come.
3. Like Moses, Jesus wants us to make the right choice, to choose life, but He leaves the choice to each of us.
4. Let’s discover the choice Jesus has set before us so that we may have a life that is rock solid, built on the Rock, our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Matthew 7:13-29

Context
1. In Matthew 5-7, we have the longest recorded sermon that Jesus ever gave called the Sermon on the Mount.
2. In His message, Jesus explained how we may enter the kingdom of heaven. In Matthew 5:20, Jesus declared that a person had to be absolutely perfect to enter the kingdom of heaven. He said, “For I say to you, that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.”
3. Now, the scribes and Pharisees were hailed as the standard of righteousness. But Jesus declared their standard fell short because they only focused on an external obedience to the Law.
4. God’s looks deeper, into the heart! Our Father desires a true righteousness where obedience flows from a heart that is filled with faith because it has been transformed by His love and grace through Jesus.
5. In Matthew 7:13-29, Jesus concluded His message with four vivid pictures to help us understand the choice He has set before each of us along with the corresponding consequences.

I. Choose Life (13-20)

• There are only two gates and two paths. One leads to life and the other leads to destruction. We must choose which one to live our lives by.

A. Jesus is the only way that leads to life
1. Jesus is the narrow gate and the narrow way.
2. Here, Jesus literally commands us to enter through Him, to stay on His way, so that we may enter into true life, enjoying His presence now and forever. John recorded similar words.

John 10:9, I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

John 14:6, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

3. Jesus also said that few are those who find the narrow gate and way. His way is the way of faith, the way of self-denial, the way of true and everlasting life. As it did during His ministry, Jesus statement runs counter to the culture in which we live.
a. The world says we should be all-inclusive and tolerant of every doctrine and every belief, even if they are mutually exclusive.
b. This is what Jesus called the wide gate and the broad way. It is the popular path, the easy street, where you can bring all your baggage; your pride, selfishness, vanity, and sin and be accepted, even applauded for your fleshly ways.
c. But what if the world is wrong? What if the majority has it backwards? Does popularity or ease confirm which way is right?

Proverbs 14:12, There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

d. Or to put it another way, how do we know Jesus is the right way, the only way?
e. Answer: The resurrection of Jesus confirms that He is the Messiah.

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