Jesus says:
13 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:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
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A young man in his forty's, said to his mother: "The Bible is so legalistic."
When I heard what he had said, I was so grieved.
I cried out to God and the Holy Spirit reminded me of the above verses in Matthew 7:13-14.
And the Holy Spirit said to me, "The people of this world want freedom to sin."
We, in the church, want freedom from sin.
The Bible is freedom from sin when we choose to go in the way instructed by the scriptures.
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