How To Walk Through The Narrow Door

Every time we are in the presence of the Almighty God, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, one in nature and one in essence, and every time we come in the presence of his beloved Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, it is always morning. It's never anything else but morning. For the S-O-N of God is the S-U-N of the day that never ceases.

So every time we are in the presence of the Lord Jesus, we are in eternity, where that day, the sun of it never goes down because that sun is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen. The gospel is according to Saint Luke and precisely chapter 13 verses 22 till the end of the chapter verse 35.

So it is Luke chapter 13 verses 22 to 35, which is the end of the chapter. Three things the Lord Jesus is trying to tell us today, three things. Number one, avoid the wider gate and strive to walk through the narrow gate.

Number two, avoid in walking in darkness and walk in the light. And number three, let it not be your will but thy will who art in heaven, our heavenly Father. Three things, avoid to walk through the wider gate and strive to walk through the narrow gate.

Number two, avoid to walk in darkness but rather walk in the light. And number three, let it not be your will but our heavenly Father's will in our lives. Someone approached the Lord and said, few are the ones who live.

Are they few? The Lord said, strive to walk through the narrow gate because many will try but they will not be able to walk through that narrow gate. What is the narrow gate? The cross. The narrow gate is the cross, the holy cross.

You may have heard this before being said or mentioned by us before. It is always good to hear it again. You see the wider gate can bring many people at the same time through it because the way is very wide and when you come to walk through that wider gate, you can yourself enter it and every human being and everything that is attached to you can also enter with you at the same time.

The Lord is saying, you may be surrounded by people, you may be surrounded by many things and maybe a lot of things are going good for you health-wise, prosperity-wise, social levels, economical levels, at all different levels, things are looking at the brighter side. You are happy, you're excited and you are so preoccupied with everyone's voice except God's. See because when you are surrounded by people, people are keeping you busy, people are keeping you preoccupied and the line is engaged.

God is trying to call. He is unable to come through because you are on the call with other people and so many things in life, you don't have the time to call God and the Lord is saying even though the wider gate may look good, may taste good, may be seen good to you but not everything that you see good is good really for you. Let God choose the path for you.

Let God choose the gate and the way for you but there is a problem with the wider gate. No matter how many people are with you and no matter how many things you may have and possess but all of that put together cannot save you, cannot deliver you when we hit rock bottom, when we face a challenge that is beyond us and above us, when we walk through the dark tunnel, it is then and then only we realize it is only God who can come to my rescue, no one else. Even the closest people to me, no matter how much they love me but they cannot save me, they cannot deliver me from what I am going through.

It is only God that is capable of achieving such thing. So with the wider gate you bring so many people with you. Maybe those people are your family, maybe those people are your cousins, maybe those people are your best friends, the closest people to you.

You're going, you're coming, you're being invited here, there and everywhere and you are so busy with everyone and everything except God. But one thing with the wider gate as well, since it fits you and fits everything with you, unfortunately you will always carry with you the luggages of the past, the haunting memories, the haunting failures, the haunting burdens, the haunting struggles of the past, the haunting dark moments of the past and it is only human nature. The moment we look back and look at the past, it is naturally by us, we focus on negative things of the past.

We never look at the good side of the past, we only focus first and foremost on the negative things. When we come through the wider gate, every luggage, every burden, every illness, every sickness, every weakness, we bring with us and no matter how much we are happy with people and no matter how much we are busy with people and so preoccupied and we're flying here, eating here, dancing there, dressing there, building here, achieving here, but when I put my head on the pillow, I am still empty from within. So many celebrities, so many famous people, so many rich people, so many influential people committed suicide and they wrote no matter what I tried to do under the sun with all the wealth and with all the power I had, I was never able to fill the void, the gap, the emptiness from within.

I was never able. They sang and they cried later on. They drank and they were miserable the following day because the moment we close our eyes, what do we see? One empty dark space, endless.

Science advances by the day and they have come to this realization that the universe has a beginning. It is a created thing. If the universe with all its vastness has a beginning and will have an end, then when we close as a piece of dust, the minute piece of dust called the human being, when we close our eyes, the space inside us is no beginning and no end to it, much greater than the moment you close your eyes, you are in an limitless space.

Do you know why? Because God through his infinite wisdom said every time you close your eyes, you are in that endless space. It takes the infinite God to fill that infinite space and that space is not external. Unfortunately, it is internal.

What the world gives is only external. What people give is only external. What pleasures, treasures of this world give only external and what is external is temporal.

But what is internal is eternal and it takes the infinite God to fill that empty space from within. That God, his name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth and there is no one else. I went up to heaven and I saw the gate to heaven and the one who allowed me to enter it was Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

I saw no one else. I was misunderstood and I was attacked because they thought this piece of dust is attacked other religions. No, I was just quoting truth, stating truth, saying truth and I know the truth can hurt but the truth fortunately or unfortunately will always be the truth.

Whether we accept it or not, the truth never changes. Whether we agree with it or not, the truth never changes. Whether we believe in it or not, the truth will never change.

It is up to us to decide to choose the truth and to reject the lie and the truth will always be the truth. His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. It's not a word, it's the person, perfect lamb of God.

He is six foot one, long tan skin face, brownie, crispy hair split in the middle all the way to the shoulders with a brownish reddish very very little bead. It's not as long as the bishop, it is much shorter than the bishops and it's definitely still holds the color, never changed. It is brown like the hair, slightly with the touch of red in it but after 2024 years he is still 33 years of age and kicking baby and he's still looking for a bride.

He's still looking. He's still looking for that bride. He's still engaged and he's still wanting more souls to come to him to make them all one perfect bride for him and bring it without a blemish, without any stain, perfect as he into the father's house on his second return.

What fills that endless space is the narrow gate. You see the narrow gate from the word narrow means it is painful, it's not spacious. So when we are in a narrow place we feel uncomfortable, we feel heavy burdened, but that narrow gate that only fits you is the only way to save you because when you come to enter the narrow gate carrying the luggages of the past you have no choice but to drop them in order to come in.

What seems to be negative is the ultimate positive for you. What you have perceived as a pain was the only way for your salvation because it only fits you. Was the Lord harsh? Far from it.

Was the Lord difficult? Never. I misunderstood him. He is all love, mercy and kindness.

He said, my child do you think I was harsh when I said to you enter through the narrow gate? I was trying to help you to get rid of all of your past luggages. So I've got no choice to drop everything and I've got no choice to drop the people around me because they can be nothing but a noise pollution. There are friends you need to let go of in order to find God.

There are relations you need to let go of in order to find God. When I walk through that narrow gate, I'm walking alone. But what did the Lord Jesus say? All of you, you will leave me alone, but I'm not alone for my father is with me.

When you walk through the narrow gate, you walk alone, but you will find one and the only one Jesus Christ of Nazareth awaiting to embrace you and he will show you his glory. He will show you his kingdom and the secrets of his kingdom where the world have no idea. Walk through the narrow gate.

Number two, avoid walking in darkness. Choose to walk in the light. Certain Pharisees came to the Lord Jesus and I said, quickly get out of this place.

King Herod wants to kill you. The Lord Jesus said, go and tell that fox, I'm working today and I'm working tomorrow and on the third day I will accomplish every deed my father sent me to accomplish. But what did the Lord Jesus call the king? Fox.

Why is the Lord calling King Herod a fox? Well if he's a king, he's a government, isn't he? Because out of all the animals, all of the animals sleep at night, work during the day. The fox sleeps during the day, works at night. Wow, opposite.

He works at night, sleeps in the day. He said, go and tell that fox King Herod, I see his deeds are of evil origin. He is the son of the snake because all of his deeds are done in darkness and the prince of darkness is Satan, the father of all lies.

That is the fox, the deceiver, the liar, the falsifier, the twister of the truth. This is where, what was that prime minister's name, Great Britain? Winston Churchill, the good old Winston Churchill. You know what I mean? When I get up in the morning.

So one morning he woke up and he said, the most powerful weapon, Winston Churchill during World War II. He said, the most powerful weapon in the world. I've just realized it is the truth, not a hydrogen bomb.

The most powerful weapon is the truth and this is why it is quite often being surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. The world surrounds the truth with a bodyguard of lies, but you know what? The world is blind because they are not understanding the truth is the S-O-N of the heavenly father and he is the S-U-N of the world. He is the sun and the sun shines forth.

No power can stop the sun from shining forth. So when Jesus Christ is, they try to surround him with bodyguard of lies, but the truth will always be the truth and will shine forth and decimate all those bodyguard of lies with a blink of an eye and that's what he's going to do. He's on his way to fix everything with a fist of iron.

He will teach the superpowers of the world that you're nothing, but he will discipline his church. The church will be fixed, but painfully will be fixed, not easy, painfully because the church in general lost track of the true Christ. So go and tell that fox, don't sleep in the day and work at night.

Do not walk in darkness, walk in the light. Speak the truth. And the third point, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the killer of the prophets and the and stoning everyone that has been sent to you.

How many times I wanted to gather your children like a hen that gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing. The will, the will. I wanted, I God wanted to protect you Jerusalem, but you did not will it for me to protect you.

You chose otherwise. The will is one of the most powerful tools God ever gave the human being. And I'm not talking about Christians, I'm talking about every single human being because in humanity we are all one, brothers and sisters.

We descend from Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. So in humanity we are one and every human has this will. And this is why when the Lord was approached by his disciples, they asked him, said, Lord teach us on how to pray.

He said, every time you pray, you say our father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Number three, your will be done on earth. Who is the earth? Us, the humans.

As it is done in heaven, who is the heaven? Angels. Heaven is angels, earth is humans. He said, pray to your heavenly father and say, father, let your will be done in me as it is done in your angels who are in heaven.

Because when you ask the angel to do something, the angel never questions you. The angel never delays your order. The angel never says, no, it is done on the spot.

Make me like an angel on earth. When you say something, it is done on the spot. Make me never question, never doubt, never go against you.

Let my will be given unto you and let thy will be fulfilled in me. Why? See, so beautiful order the Lord Jesus has put it through Luke, the gospel writer. The first one, strive to walk through the narrow gate.

Because if you do not walk through the narrow gate, you will end up being a fox. Meaning, walking in darkness, doing things in darkness, following satan and being enslaved to satan. The reason why people are so lost, the reason why people are so morally corrupt and bankrupt, because they chose to walk through the wider gate and the wider gate led them to satan.

Satan enslaved them, blinded them. They have no idea what is their right hand from their left hand. No idea.

They call the light darkness, darkness light. They call the sweet sour and the sour sweet. Because they chose to walk through the wider gate.

When you walk through the wider gate and disregard the narrow gate, it will lead you to being a fox, doing things, everything in darkness, satan way, not God's way. When you walk in darkness, the third step, the Lord Jesus said so many times, I wanted, I was willing to save you, but you were not willing. Because when satan takes over, your will definitely not be given to God.

Satan will control it. And when satan controls it, you will reject God. Because satan is darkness and God is light.

These two can never mix. It is either day light or night darkness. The two cannot unite, be together at the same time.

So when you walk through the wider gate, you end up being fox, doing it satan way, not God's. Your will went against God. What happened to your house? Therefore your house shall be left desolate, haunted.

Now I've seen the movies, those haunted houses, spider webs everywhere, no windows. You can't walk in there, it's kind of dark. And then when they put, when the director put that kind of weird music, you jump off your seat and you put your head under the blanket and you just start, is he still there? And then this zombie comes up out of nowhere.

The house will be desolate. And which house is this? Where the spirit dwells in the body. This is the house.

You the human, you'll become desolate. Let your will be given to God. And say God, I can't do it my way.

I don't want to choose my way because every time I chose my way, I ruined things. So God, I'm giving you my will and I'm saying, let your will be done in me. Let your will, my heavenly father be done in me.

Because when it's your will, you'll make sure that I walk through the narrow gate and the narrow gate is your beloved son, the savior and the redeemer of the entire world. When you make me walk through that narrow gate, I'm walking with Christ the King. I'm walking in the light and when I walk in the light, I am the son of God.

By the son of God himself, he has adopted me through the sacrament of the holy baptism to make us children of the almighty God who art in heaven. When I am that descendant from that royal family, every time I see darkness, I see satan, I step on satan in the name of the king of all kings and the lord of all lords and his name Jesus Christ of Nazareth who lives forever, conquers forever, rules forever, reigns forever. He is the almighty God revealed in the flesh and this is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

So help you Jesus Christ who is God revealed in the flesh. So when you walk in the light, when you walk in the light, you'll step on darkness, you'll decimate darkness, you make a sign of the cross, satan will be burned to the ground and then the lord will come and say I want to save you. Then I'll say Lord thy will be done in me, no longer my will, no longer my way, it is your way.

When it is his way, the house will stand strong forever, will never be desolate. It's so simple yet so complex because we choose wrongly, unwisely. So many people you loved, they let you down.

So many people you sacrificed for, they were not there when you needed them the most. They got upset, they got fed up because they have tolerated you for about a couple of times, ten times, a hundred times, maybe, maybe if they are strong and wise enough they will tolerate you a thousand times but Jesus Christ tolerates us every single moment for the rest of our life and he will never say I don't want you. But there are people who say that they love you and one small thing, gone with the wind, gone.

They walk away yet you need them the most, they're not there. This is the Lord to tell us the only one never lets you down is Jesus Christ, he's the only one, he's the only one. My beloveds, my beloveds, the light is very clear, you can see it, it's very clear, it's very simple.

The light is never difficult, it's simple. When it's light, it's light, you see everything clear. Darkness is very difficult, you think you see but you don't until you fall into that ditch.

But maybe that fall is extremely painful and it could be the last fall. We need the Lord Jesus my beloved. Strive to walk through the narrow gate, in the narrow gate there is no people, there is no possessions, there is no wealth, there is no pleasures but in that narrow gate there is one, God.

And when you have God, you have everything and everyone. Play it smart, not hard, play it smart. When you gain Christ, you've gained everything and everyone and if you lose Christ, even if you've gained everything and everyone, you'll end up being with nothing and the narrow gate is God.

The narrow gate will lead you to the light. You won't be a fox anymore, you'll be the lion from the tribe of Judah. Wow, Jesus Christ of Nazareth baby.

You'll be walking with Christ, not with Satan. You'll be walking in the light, not in darkness. You will be walking in the life, not in death.

You'll be walking in the truth, not in the lie. Lest your house end up being desolate, let Christ be the builder. Love everyone, never fear anyone.

Speak the truth as is. In the truth there is no falsification, there is no hypocrisy, there is no twisting, there is no what if. Hold on to the Lord Jesus, my beloved.

Hold on to the Lord Jesus. We need to pray for the church. Pray for the church leaders.

Keep them in your prayers. I'm one of them and I'm the weakest and the least of all. But pray for all church leaders.

For the Lord to touch the heart, to enlighten it, to make us realize where the truth is and to speak boldly with no hesitation, with no fear. Look after your children, husband and wife, parents. Teach them the love of Christ.

Jesus Christ is the only truth and Jesus Christ got nothing to do with Christians. You can call yourself Catholic, you can call yourself Orthodox, you can call yourself Protestant, whatever. Jesus Christ will say, who? You're speaking to God.

Who are you? As a Catholic, if you believe in Jesus Christ, then he will know you. As an Orthodox, if you believe in Jesus Christ, then he will know you. But just by being Catholic, Orthodox and whatever, and you say, I belong to you, he'll say, I don't know who you are.

I don't know who you are. Jesus Christ is God. He's not Catholic.

He's not Orthodox. Let us not put these names on him. He's God.

He wants your heart and he will do the rest. He will teach you and show you himself. You cannot find him.

You cannot know him. He needs to do it for you. Otherwise, it is impossible.

The church is the body. Christ is the head. Who holds the truth? Christ, who is the head.

What is the church? The body attached to the head. So what can the church do? All it can do by the grace of the head, Christ, take gradually from the truth and learn that truth. The church does not hold the whole truth.

The whole truth is Christ, God himself. We learn from the truth. We take from the truth.

And the more you give your heart to the truth, the more the truth will fill you with himself. Find the Lord in your heart. Fill that empty space endless with the endless infinite God.

Let's bow our heads. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. Our good God and full of mercy, our good God and full of mercy, whose grace and mercy is poured upon all.

Pour, my Lord, the compassion of the delightfulness of your love upon your servants and again transform them in the hope of renewal to the life of repentance. Renew in them your Holy Spirit by whom they are sealed for the day of salvation. Purify them by your compassion from all flesh and spiritual blemishes and assure the hope of their faith by the aid of your grace and instill the walks of their behavior and the paths of righteousness.

Please them along with the saints in your kingdom by the assurance of the hope of their faith in the adoption as your children and in the joy of your absolving mysteries. Empower them by the aid of your mercies to observe your commandments and fulfill your will to confess, worship, and praise your Holy Name, the Lord of all, Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever. Amen.

May the Lord Jesus bless you.