Don't Get Shut Out

Luke 13:24  

"Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, 

I say unto you, will seek to enter in, 

and shall not be able" 

   The parable tells us of the gospel of a second chance.  It is always Jesus' way to give a man chance after chance. Peter, Mark and Paul all gladly had witnessed to that. God is kind to the man who falls and rises again. 
   The parable also makes it quite clear that there is a final chance. If we refuse chance after chance, if God's appeal and challenge come again and again in vain, that day finally comes, not when God has shut us out, but when we by deliberate choice have shut ourselves out. God save us from that! 

   My Friends, There are those who think that just because they are members of a Church and call themselves Christians, all is well. But the man who lives in a Christian environment is not necessarily a Christian. He may be enjoying all its benefits; he certainly is living on the Christian benefits which others before him have built up; but that is no reason for sitting back content thinking that all is well. This challenges all of us, "What did you do to initiate all this? What have you done to preserve and develop it?" We cannot live on borrowed goodness. "When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:" (Luke 13:25). 

Amen!

Reading: Luke 13:22-30

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May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry