Kerwin Baptist Church Daily Broadcast

Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast our desire is for the word of God spread throughout all may know Christ. Join us now for a portion of one of our services here at Kerwin Baptist Church located in Kernersville, North Carolina. Matthew chapter 7 verse 13. If you would. Verse 1314 very well-known versus enter ye in at the strait gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that lead to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat because strait is the gate and narrow is the way which lead on to life, and few there be that find it.

And this morning I just simply got a deal with you about this. There's just two choices on the shelf. Literally there are two ways to destinations and two gates that these two verses talk about and I just gotta make that very clear to you because it's literally listen to me this morning. It's a decision that you have to make.

Jesus lays out three choices that literally confront every person that lives every person is confronted with these three choices use a preacher, I don't think I been confront. Yes, you have and if you haven't, you are today.

These choices must be made and they are the most important choices you will ever make in your entire life. What you do with these choices when you are confronted with them literally will determine how you live your life how you will die, and where you will spend eternity. When you do die, it's all about you. Those are pretty important choices. You know it used to be when an individual came to church, that they would be confronted with these choices. Things used to be made clear, and it used to be a church that preachers were truthful and they just told it how it was and they just made it plain and they didn't come up with some good little story that would make you feel good about any Griffith or something. Then you could go home and get some lunch and just feel comfortable. It used to be that church confronted you by the way, I still believe that church should confront the individual if it doesn't, why go to church. You can stay home and not be confronted.

So I have to confront you this morning and it's really not me confronting you. I'm just giving you. God's Word and God's word does the work and let me say this, no one is going to force you to make any choices today. No one is going to force you to do any thing. I promise you.

Let me give you something even better than that. Jesus won't even force you to do anything. He never has, and he never will. All Jesus is done. Has he is made things available and you and I have to choose, but he doesn't force. Let's pray Lord will love you this morning as we share these two verses are. Make things clear in the hearts of all of us this morning in Jesus name, amen. Number one I want you to see that there are only two ways now where you wind up in eternity will be determined by the road that you take here on earth. There are only two ways or two roads.

That's the only choice they are not listen to me. There are not a thousand different ways to get to God.

There is not even 10 different ways to get to heaven. There are only two ways to listen to me, it is impossible for you to take the wrong road and end up at the right place. It is impossible for you to take the right road and end up at the wrong place. It's impossible for you to choose the Broadway ended up in heaven and it is also impossible for you to choose the narrow way and end up in hell and I will you understand that life as we know it is simply a brief stop between two very long eternity and so knowing that one day you and I all of us what you know if the Lord doesn't come every one of us are going to see death at some point I don't care how healthy you are or how you eat barley and wheat germ, or whatever you eat. That's not can it help you in a car hit ship why you laughing here that is not funny. Now you don't know whether to laugh or not. Old counts are number one. I want you to see that there is a broad way. The Bible says if you would it verse 13 enter ye in at the strait gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that lead to destruction. So there is a Broadway. These verses make it clear to let me tell you what he's talking about here that were brought here mean spacious and I know that makes sense to you. Jesus says here that there is a spacious broad road that a person can walk now. What does he mean by a broad road. The ideal here that Jesus is trying to convey is that this Broadway is wide open.

In other words, anything go's on the Broadway to give you some facts about it. Number one is that you can do anything you like on the Broadway because that's what people do on the Broadway that's what the world does.

By the way people do anything they like. You can live like you want to live. You can call the shots you can make all the rules, you can be as religious as you want to be or is on religious as you want to be.

You can go to church.

You can pray. You can read the Bible or you can do none of the three on the Broadway you can do as much or as little as you please on the Broadway and by the way, the Broadway encompasses all religions from Islam to atheism you can travel. The Broadway is not even believe that there is a God, because the Broadway is for everybody. You can confess Jesus if you like or you cannot confess Jesus if you like you can believe in God or you could not believe in God you can literally be king of the road in the Broadway when you walk the Broadway you make your own decisions and you don't have to answer to anybody not only that you can live life as you please.

You can go where you want to go.

You can do what you want to do and you can be what you want to be. Sounds great doesn't and that what every teenager wants. It's your life for the Broadway and you can call the shots. It's an easy way to live because there's no one to please but your self. That's what the Broadway is all about.

By the way, pleasing your self. The Broadway is full of open-minded pleasure seekers, let me say this while were saying all the good things about the Broadway. There are just a couple things you need to know before you decide to live the rest of your life on the Broadway and by the way, you could have a lot of company because the Bible says that majority of mankind are following on the Broadway you couple things that you need number one you need understand that you really are in control on the Broadway while you think you're in control and you think you're calling all the shots I want you to understand before you choose that road and by the way, you say want to know what to choose.

If you've not made the choice you are already on the Broadway by not choosing you have chosen. That's the direction you're going, but I want you to understand. First, you're not really in control of the Bible says. The Bible says that the folks on the Broadway are of your father the devil and the devil is a liar he is a liar and the father of it. That means this. He's going to fool you. He's going to make you think you're in control and your living like you want and there's no consequences and you can do whatever you want to do and you have to answer to any preacher or any church or any religion is that's what people like to say nowadays but I'm here to tell you that you are not really in control like you think you are so anything you want to know is this is that sin always brings pain and sorrow, even if everybody's doing it.

It still brings pain and sorrow was amazing. The Bible says there is a way which seem at the right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. The broad way I was doing some research on this and I found out one book was given a study of how families can literally set their legacy literally by traveling the Broadway in creating that atmosphere. They literally set up for generations to follow to live that way and there is a family and you might've heard of them either heard him is called Jukes family and they did a study on this family and they have literally researched into the history of this family known as the Jukes family and are known as literally a criminal family and what's amazing is that they have had an extended period of hundreds of years of literally Poppers wasteful insane prostitution, drunkenness, murder, thievery, everything in this family. There's been a total of 1200 descendents that have been tracked on this family tree. Over 400 were literally wrecked physically by their sins. Literally, they were drunk they were dismembered, they because of committing crimes were killed during crimes and different things that nature 310 were professional Poppers. They literally got money from other people scandal money everything, never had anything listen to this 400 obviously were murderers, that's a lot of 1201 out of every three listen to this, 100 and 330 were convicted criminals, 60 were perpetual thieves and pickpockets. Numerous of them.

Besides, one I mentioned were murderers out of the 1200 descendents only 20 have ever learned a trade, and 10 of those 20 learned that trade while they were in prison. Now you tell me that it doesn't affect your family the way you live. That all started somewhere there is a Broadway and there's a whole lot of people want Bible says there were two there's a narrow way. That's really two choices. There's not like one that's a little bit bigger than the narrow it a little bit smaller than the broad. There is either a big old Broadway is amazing how some of the most wicked streets in some of the most major cities in America are called Broadway Bible says number two there is a narrow way military little bit about some of this narrow way. The Broadway is open and easy and that means obviously that the narrow way is not as big know why does God call it narrow this word narrow in the Greek literally refers to a great press, it means literally pressing down and constricting. It's the ideal of being constricted. It also carries the ideal being distressed being difficult. The narrow way is literally the exact opposite of the Broadway in every area.

On the narrow way. You can't bring every sin you want to with you and you gotta think of it this way of going like maybe to a subway station or or or maybe going into a ballpark and they have these turnstiles were that these little metal bars and you gotta walk through have ever tried to maybe no load up yourself with a whole bunch of baggage and a whole bunch of suitcases and try to get through one of those like that we would work because you just get stuck. That's what God says that you can't bring a bunch of junk with you on the narrow way there some things that you can't bring. You can't just live like you like and you can't just make your own choices in your own decisions. It's restricted. It's narrow, it's difficult. It literally has the ideal of something that is difficult for you to perform in the living room. He put it this way.

Some people have the mistaken ideal that they can live like they please and do what they want to do and that the Lord is obligated to smile down on them and bless their life that you listen to me.

Some people had this idea that they they just can do whatever they wanted to life and God is obligated to do something good for them as if for some reason that that's what God supposed to do. You know, in truth, when you walk the narrow way you could expect some difficulty because the Bible says that the majority of folks are heading down the Broadway and literally that narrow way is literally going the opposite direction at the exact same time if I could put it this way, if you take about 10,000 people and you put them in a 10 foot wide hallway and you march those 10,000 people down. That and then you have a line of one individual maybe 100 people. Single file and they have to march the exact opposite way as those 10,000 people at the same time you're trying to get through the crowd.

That way, and the crowds coming this way. That's the picture God is painting here.

There's this Broadway in the whole world is heading that way, but the narrow way that leads to life is a lot smaller. It's a lot more restricted is not as easy to travel because everybody's not going that way ever been in a crowded place and you're trying to go against the crowd, your gut looks from people we know what different when you try to live the Christian life in a non-Christian world.

You might get some looks from people. It's a narrow way. By the way, are fleshly bodies naturally resist the narrow way you and I do not like restrictions.

Our sinful natures find this narrow way a little bit too tight and constrictive. That's what our flesh feels anybody who ever said living for Jesus is easy never tried it because not only are you fight against everyone else, you literally are fighting against yourself to live for Christ. Anybody who believes that living a separated Christian life that honors God is a simple thing and it's as fun as living in the Broadway doesn't know anything about what can be different. I'm not saying that the narrow way is more fun than the Broadway. I'm saying that the narrow way ends up at a destination far different than the Broadway does you and I have got to determine you know what, let me give you couple things just real quickly about this. I know I've said a lot of things about the narrow way that doesn't make it sound like it's that great, but I'm just being honest with you today God said it's narrow God said there's not many people traveling. It God said it's going to be difficult. Let me take something about the narrow way when you walk on the Narrow Way, #1 on what you know this. It honors God.

You can't honor God on the Broadway you can't live like you want and honor God. The two things are just inseparable.

You just can't do something I want you notice this, is that it brings God's blessings and power in your life when you walk the narrow way.

It is the only way to do that you can't get God's blessings and God's power on your life. If you're following the crowd on the Broadway just unhappy.

I got busy verse to prove it and I capture all of her sacred time but I will give you one set Chronicles 714 says if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will receive them and bring blessings on their life. Only when they turn from their wicked ways, I wish I could be tactful about this. I wish I could just take these flowery pictures and we can all just enjoy church that's what the Bible says so there's two ways. Number two.

There are only two destinations. There is a Broadway to narrow way that the two ways others two destinations, number one, I want you to see that there is a place called hell. And that is one of only two destinations that you have to choose from. It literally means this folk you will either end up in heaven, or you will end up in hell but you cannot choose anything else. But those two. Whether you want to or not.

That's the way it is. That's life because you and I have a soul.

It is a living soul and that soul will never die and it will either live in eternity in hell, or it will live in eternity in heaven. It doesn't even matter whether you believe or not I got told you before he say I don't believe George Washington ever live will you. You can believe that if you want to done mattered and change the fact that he did different.

You can so I don't believe the Bible. I don't believe God and dear friend, I would say it doesn't matter whether you believe it or not, it doesn't change the fact there is a place called hell that is only one of two destinations that you are headed. Now Jesus tells us that the broad road leads to destruction.

What is he talking about here in destruction. This word destruction literally means to be annihilated to be forever done with to suffer loss. It speaks of total and absolute ruin.

It is obviously here speaking of hell. It speaks of the loss that a person can expect when he is traveled abroad were road and when that road ends, it is in hell and he will suffer loss beyond any description here is the truth. I wait understand when you were born you were born.

Heading on the Broadway because you and I were born in sin, we are natural born sinners. That's why you don't have to teach a baby to lie or to be bad or to do wrong because we all have a sinful nature and we are all automatically on the Broadway heading towards hell.

That's just the way it is.

What is amazing is on the Broadway. You can try to do all the good deeds that you can do and and try to do all the nice things and be as good a person as you can be. That doesn't make you change directions that doesn't get you to heaven just doesn't whatever religion you might be or whatever believes you have a got a lot of rituals. A lot of things say we need to do this and you need to do that different none of those things get you to heaven. The only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ as your personal savior. Let me mention this is a what makes this destruction so terrible and I've said this before and you said this before, I literally heard people in especially like rock singers and different things and and obviously people have no use for God and just literally spit make fun of them and all the stuff and no comedians nowadays is the big popular thing to make fun of Christians make fun of Jesus use his name in vain make fun of God but but let me tell you little bit something why hell is so wrong I've heard them say what this could have a big old party in hell they have no idea how ignorant and foolish. That is no Muggeridge. All the verses but Mark chapter 9 Luke chapter 16 Bible teaches that hell has unquenchable fire. There is no way to put it out. That means this if you would, literally, if you could put your self build you a bagel campfire and you just run and you jump into it and you just stay there not free year, not for two years now for three years now for 100 years.

Not for a thousand years. I mean you will literally burn alive in hell for an eternity.

It will never stop. He's a preacher.

I don't believe that that's just me. Why would God do that only takes up God didn't do that. Satan did that.

But God died on the cross for your sins so you wouldn't have to go if it unquenchable fire.

The Bible teaches. Luke chapter 16 teaches us that there is an unsatisfied first in hell that means this to the Bible says even gave an instance of the rich man that died and went to hell and he literally screamed and yelled out of somebody would just dip a little bit of water off the tip of their finger and drop it on his tongue that he could just feel the droppable water but literally that person the Bible that said that is still suffering. It held today preacher mean all on the opposite of me will one that loves individuals enough right now to tell you the truth today, which mean for preacher to get appeared to say you just feel good and he let me just as you just be a good person and you just come to church, ingesting up, make yourself feel better about yourself and let you go home to lunch and didn't tell you the truth that you're on your way to hell. If you've never been saved in order to find Christ in order to find salvation you gotta put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ that mean I'm not being mean today being loving Bible says in Luke chapter 13 that there will be frustration extreme frustration in hell that there will be anger and help Luke 16 teaches that there will be unspeakable pain and misery.

Also Revelation 21 second Thessalonians chapter 1 says that in hell you will be eternally separated. That means that you're knocking to be there with your buddy.

You're knocking to be sitting there right beside an individual that you're friends with here on earth and you guys are helping you helping each other through the trial you're knocking to see anybody else you're knocking to feel anybody else all your to do is hear the screams of the millions. That'll be there in hell be darkness forever. You will see anybody Bible says Revelation chapter 20 that there will literally be un-diluted wrath. That means this everything evil that Satan is he will unleash it on you. That's hell, that's one of the destinations. As I was rev.

As I was reading through this. I just gotta read this to you and one commentator is is going through explaining how he literally said this at any was even trying to make a statement. He was just talking and as he was going visit.

I had to give you this quote he said this hell is real.

I could never adequately describe hell. But if I were able to exhaust all the vocabulary of English and paint word pictures that could convey the truth of that place my feeble words could never describe the reality of the horror that awaits everyone headed to that land of the damned. It is a place from which there will never be deliverance, a place that you will surely go to if you continue down what the Bible calls the broad way so you trying to scare me, preacher, no. But it ought to, it ought to scares me.

I pray every day that my three boys will know Christ give their hearts to Christ and be saved by distorting a kitty litter my mind think one of my sons until the narrow road may be the more costly of the two. There is a place called hell.

Number two God says there's another destination is a place called heaven. The Bible says while there is that news at the Broadway related to destruction. Many there be that find Bible also says there is a narrow way that leads until life. We take some interesting things about heaven. What is interesting is that just as the broad road has its destination. The narrow does to while the other road is in hell. This destination is in heaven. No different. I wish I could make it more tactful than that, but that's just the truth of God's word. Everything that hell isn't heaven is everything that heaven is hell isn't Bible says Revelation 21, that in heaven. There's no tears there's no pain there's no sorrow.

There's no death.

There's no sin there's no night Revelation 22 says that there is no curse. Revelation 21 teaches us that in heaven we will be with God in Jesus for eternity. Revelation 21 tells us that heaven is a glorious city and that its glories are be on the description and it literally says that heaven is beyond our capability to comprehend. Yet this hell is so bad that we can't comprehend. Heaven is so wonderful.

We can't comprehend or I would say my times about gone, there's two ways to destinations where this all starts. The Bible says there's two gates you enter these gates when you enter the one gate, it leads to the one road that leads to the one destination. When you enter the other gate, at least to the other road that leads to the other destination. So literally, the choice has to make up. Gotta choose one gate or the other only two gates.

First, I want you to see the Bible says there's a wide gate and that means is that there's no real choice were born that way were born already heading down this road when a person is born into this world were born into sin. Romans 323 it says that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God but me say this.

Notice that the verses teacher that God says that this is the crowded way.

Many, many more will find their way onto the broad road that will ever find their way onto the narrow road many, many more will spending eternity in hell that will ever be in heaven. This is a very sad thing.

It was really sad about the whole thing is that oftentimes men and women have many chances throughout their lives to change roads. Can I give you some really good news today. Do you know that everybody in this building has been given an opportunity today to change roads. What I cannot guarantee you is that you will ever have this chance again.

But I can tell you you been given this chance today through God's sovereign mercy.

Like I said he'll never force you I would never force anybody. I don't know your spiritual condition. I don't know if you're saved if you're lost if you I don't know if you're traveling on the Broadway were the narrow way that's a personal thing and that's a personal relationship between you and God. And that's your decision, but I do know if you're in this building today that you finally have the chance. A clear-cut chance to change Rome. Thank you for listening to you receive the blessing from our broadcast.

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