Matthew 7:13-14 (AMP)
The Narrow and Wide Gates
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad and easy to travel is the path that leads the way to destruction and eternal loss, and there are many who enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow and difficult to travel is the path that leads the way to [everlasting] life, and there are few who find it.
We have to understand, we as Christians are charged to love each person for who they are , because God created them too. However sometimes the narrow path is the choice that is not liked . So we have to tell people the truth even if they are not going to like it. We have to make decisions based on our belief and understanding the truth and stand on our faith even if people dont like them. However we are charged to do it with the love of GOD and relay it as if were relaying it through GODs eyes and not ours. You as a Christian maybe the only person that may have pentrated the trust of someone who is living the life of sin. This maybe a good thing or bad thing. Because so many Christians have pentrated people and bombared people with so much hate and negativity , it has become increasingly hard to tell Christians apart from the world.
I personally watched a demonstration of a large group of people shout and chant " Jesus Christ" and circle one man who is Islamic who was praying quietly by himself. This doesnt show God's love. To also shout and chant at people that they are going to Hell doesnt show God's love either. However, it is our Job to be viligant and to always be on our gaurd from the enemy of our soul , to be ready to share the Gospel with people who crosses our path to share God's Love. Also to stand firm and to give an account of our actions to anyone who may question our fath in Jesus Christ is also another way to show and relay our faith.
So if you are invited to a wedding between a homosexual couple and if you wanted to love them unconditionally and show God's love through your eyes, a way to show this this love is explain to this couple why you love Jesus Christ and why you cannot attend a celebration that is sin in Gods eyes. That you will pray for them and hope they will come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
One has to understand the context of this message, the Christians who closed their doors to this woman and her son, as it seems were not acting in a Christ Like manner, yet the Homosexual couple did. Because sin abounds so greatly today, The perversion of sin will look more like help and christ like then those who are Christians.
Satan is always looking for a chance to pervert the scriptures and so Called Christians, and many of Christians will fail their tests of faith God has for them. However the context of this message doesnt outlined the complete test of the woman and her son who didnt have a place to live for a little while or for the reason. However, we dont know if this woman were to stand on her faith, if God was about to open the door to something that only God could have orchestrated . We dont know all the circumsatnces that surround the context of this story.
The end is still the basic fundamental understanding, choosing and standing on our belief system . We all have a ministry to share the good news of the bible with each of our fellow man. That is our charge through our life actions.
It is a matter of how we will choose to do that will show the condition of our heart towards God in our obeidence .
In the Book of Daniel ,in the bible, Daniel stood fast against the orders of King for which were not of God . The King had Daniel thrown into the den of Hungry lions . Daniel was thrown into this den but was not touched. Daniel had spent the night in this den of lions. In the morning when the king rose he went to the den of Lions where he found Daniel safe . The king removed Daniel from and threw in the men and their families who conspired against Daniel and they were crushed to death.
The question remains to you, where does your faith stand and to what level? Does the lions you face become greater then Gods ability to work in your life?
You have to undersstand that when Jesus Christ stated if anyone who chooses to follow Him must lay down their life and pick up their cross , meant they had to surrender their own understanding of self and die to their own wants and needs .To follow the path of God's will and in choosing God's will in all circumstances over our own, even until death. It doesnt state that we will always understnad this but it only means that we are surrendering all that we are to God and allowing Him to truly work in our lives.
To conclude todays message , I will conclude with the story of Daniel , once Daniel was released from the den of lions, the King who gave the orders to kill Daniel, eneded up praising the same God of Daniel.
The message was so clear to this King ,that God had proven his point and favor over those who obey God, the God of Daniel, that it turned this king to order a decree to reverently Fear this very same GOD of Daniel. The great "I Am" YHVH. The same one that you and I believe in.
The Gretaest way to show an acknowlege love to all people , even those who choose to lead a blatant life of sin , is not give your congratulation to them and celebrate with them in sin, but to show and tell them HOW MUCH GOD really loves them and then stand on that! AMEN!
In service to Yeshua Hamoshiach,
Jay