On the wrong path

 by David Long

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matt. 7:13-14). Do wrong paths lead to right places? They don’t when it comes to going to heaven. The broad path will never lead to heaven.

Ignorance is destructive

 By David Long

Some people are happy to be religiously stupid. They don’t know the Bible and they don’t want to know the Bible. Yes, ignorance is bliss, but spiritual ignorance is eternal damnation (Hosea 4:6).

I never knew you

by David Long

“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity” (Matt. 7:21-23). Who will these people be that the Lord will reject? It will be people who claimed to have done many wonderful works in the name of Jesus.

Condemnation

 By David Long 

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Rom. 8:1).

Notice the condition placed on “no condemnation”: “them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” There is condemnation to those who walk after the flesh and not after the Spirit, even if one is in Christ (James 5:9, 12). 

Just one way

 by David Long

“Jesus said unto him, “I am the way, the truth and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me.”

Now that is being narrow minded. But the way to heaven is narrow (Matt. 7:13-14). All roads don’t lead to heaven. Only one does. 

Saved by water

 by David Long

“Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.   The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ”

(1 Pet. 3:20-21). How does water save? Acts 22:16

Not binding

 By David Long

“And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses ye cannot be saved” (Acts 15:1)

They were trying to bind an Old Testament practice on Christians. We live under the New Testament not the Old Testament. Got it?!