Week 12 (Beginning 17 Mar) Day 1

Matthew 7.13-14

13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

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Personal Reflections After providing a vision of how the people of the new kingdom would and should look like (5.1-7.12), He goes on to give warnings about heeding and doing his word. The first warning is about not despising the small gate and narrow road through which we enter and on which we tread. The teachings of Jesus are apparently “restrictive,” yet it gives life and life abundantly. So heed it!

Is the apparent “restrictiveness” of Jesus’ teaching hindering you from obeying? What would you do to experience the new kingdom life that Jesus talks about? What is one practical step of obedience for you to “enter through the narrow gate?”