bible.com/bible/100/mat.5.8.NASB1995
Taken from John MacArthur Bible study notes.
bible.com/bible/100/mat.5.8.NASB1995
Taken from John MacArthur Bible study notes.
bible.com/bible/100/mat.7.13-14.NASB1995
The Wide Gate, or the Narrow gate, that leads to Heaven.
Both the narrow gate and the wide gate are assumed to provide the entrance to God’s kingdom. Two ways are offered to people. The narrow gate is by faith, only through Christ, constricted and precise. It represents true salvation in God’s way that leads to life eternal. The wide gate includes all religions of works and self-righteousness, with no single way (cf. Ac 4:12), but it leads to hell, not heaven.
bible.com/bible/100/jhn.10.11.NASB1995
We have the ultimate shepherd, who never wavered, to sacrifice his very life,. He experienced what no God, should have to suffer, so that those who recognized, his substitutional sacrifice was for their own sins, would live with him forever. He was fully God and fully Man, and took on our punishment, that those who would believe this in faith, would live!
loses his life … will save it. This paradoxical saying reveals an important spiritual truth: those who pursue a life of ease, comfort, and acceptance by the world will not find eternal life. On the other hand, those who give up their lives for the sake of Christ and the gospel will find it. Cf. Jn 12:25.