The Sermon Two Roads One Less Travel by David McGee
May 06, 2012
Two Roads One Less Travel (32:01)
Referenced Scriptures: Matthew 7:13-14; Matthew 7:1-12
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Matthew 7:13-14
13) Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.
14) How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.
Matthew 7:1-12
1) "Don‘t judge, so that you won‘t be judged.
2) For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged: and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
3) Why do you see the speck that is in your brother‘s eye, but don‘t consider the beam that is in your own eye?
4) Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye;‘ and behold, the beam is in your own eye?
5) You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother‘s eye.
6) "Don‘t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
7) "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.
8) For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
9) Or what man is there of you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
10) Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
11) If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
12) Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
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And it's the true Road and taking the one less traveled roads. One was from that chapter seven, verses thirteen, fourteen, nineteen, James version says injury at the strait gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in there at because strait is the gate and narrow the way which lead onto life, and few there be that find it on the message Bible has the look for shortcuts, the God market is flooded with surefire easy-going formulas for a successful life. They can be practice in your spare time. Don't fall for that stop even though crowds of people do the way to life to God is vigorous and requires total attention. Now it was seeing the obvious declaration that Jesus is pretty here is that you wrote, there is a bad way and wrong way of sin and there is a good way of holiness and closeness to God. There are but two ways. There are right and wrong right with Jesus wrong without Jesus and yell it isn't that we would have this ability to always be right. I memorable cartoon. The pastor was counseling this guy in the cartoon stated, it is a spiritual gift to always be right. Okay. So anyhow, there is good and evil. There is a way to heaven. The way to hell. Every person is walking one of these throughout so everyone is on one of these throat throughout the Scripture says that the broad way is a way of selfishness where there is no hedges where there are no boundaries. The way that appears to be right in the eyes of an individual where there is no higher power. There is no greater influence than themselves, and this descriptor refers to is there is a way to think of right to a man, but the end thereof is the structure around where accountability is determined by cell where the accountability is made up of their own particular rules where people become gods, and they think that things become status symbols around where heartache has no purpose or life has no greater need than the serving of itself, and where death is a history and that is nothing beyond a great as we continue to see what this route. What this road may look like it is a wrong where laws are made to be broken were selfish desires become the dreams of our destiny. Where progress is determined by stepping on or over people trying to achieve that rates status that is ever elusive. The broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in the rat message Bible says don't look for shortcuts, the God so whatever we think of being to grow slowly pick up that there is a path of righteousness. There is a time that is a part of unrighteousness and sometimes it's hard to know I learned there are those black and white yet there are no there is seemingly gray areas. While can I do this and can I do that. What was wrote early on and how do we want to live on this route, and I think that in the Scripture that Jesus is telling us here and that there are two roads, but there is characteristics that we are to follow on these roads. The road straight is a narrow strait is the path narrows the gate and is there is there are characteristics that are to dominate this road but there's being able to choose being able to choose which road and understand that the characteristics of the road. Anybody ever hear of Robert Frost, avionics takes prostitutes, Robert Frost is a the whole iPad on the name of Ms. one of his famous poem, the Road not taken by the arena on the road not taken our even if you haven't two roadster birds in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down down one as far as I could to where advantage in the undergrowth then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, because it was grassy and wanted wear, though, is far that the passing there had worn them really about the same, and both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black. All I kept the first for another day yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubt if I should ever come back. I shall tell. I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence two roads diverge in the woods and I took. I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. So, the Rocha Road less one Road less traveled, taken the road less traveled the road not taken, and this poem critics have tried to analyze the polymeric toward in the poem takes is truly it all up to the reader. We sometimes try to get into the mind of the Pulitzer. No one flossed intention was what he was trying to say while probably he was trying to say it's up to you to determine the way and how that we look at it and find that there are two roads. There always two roads to choose from, there's always up a choice that we make, and we wonder what are the choices of where will the road, take a in all. And whatever we think of Nixon and when I think in this, I think of people I think of people that perhaps small sign set here years ago, many years ago and at that point in their life they were. I'm as this one individual or member of the limits on this stuff like that will ever one individual that sat here and he and his wife and children were here in church and it was a crossroads in that individual 's life, and I don't think they that he knew what it was because he talked to me about coming to church became a couple times a schedule. I just don't think this religion thing is white Ford for me and my family. I don't think that this is been installed narrow because I am kind of exploring these the spiritual stuff and get off like it was including all everything will anyhow, this individual never came back to church and in this case this person went down the wrong road which led to me being in this total disaster for his life and for the life of his family and always felt bad because you know whenever you think of that you think of how one of you and said something differently. What if you had enabled to present the message in a different way. Whatever you had been able to say things differently whether that made a difference in the life and I I don't know. I can know just don't know what the final decision is always up to the person and we will stand before God, and that person can say what you know that Richard and say a writer I would believe while we chat with a look at our life and realize we are at a crossroads. We make decisions all the time and we've got to make decisions based upon the truth of God 's word and how that it is time to look to separate us from him. He looks to bring us close to him, and that every trial in every difficulty may not originate with God and the things of the past may have been totally blown out of the water. And while away, but then that's not the important thing. The important thing is that we recognize the work were traveling with God and that God is with us, and we make decisions based upon our understanding of God and his love for us in staying on a path that will take us to where we need to be because there are lots of pounds. There are lots of trails that will lead to destruction. And they look very appealing. They look as if this is the place and this is the direction I want to go to fix it with my group that I am associated with war and fanfare when you're an easier task. While not good enough for being a Christian, you see those of the road with temptations that lead to destruction, and God doesn't lead us on that path God leads us on a path that will take us someplace that place is heaven, and our past is not what dictates whether we go to heaven or not. Our presence and our relationship with Jesus Christ is what determines where we will spend eternity. So here we are in our life making a decision based upon our belief in what Jesus Christ has promised us two thousand years ago. Then he died on the cross to forgive us of our sins, and that Hezbollah would wash away all our sins, he rose again that the same spirit oh two. The race cry from the dead will not look like in our mortal bodies, your may operate in the something was when Lazarus was sick. Okay, last of the secondary Martha, I saw that I was a number of times with his level point I came across lakes. The different impact for me very much know that Jesus loves Lazarus and less intuitive to use. He is their best friend. They are his best friends outside of the disciples as though Jesus goes to their homeland. He spends time with family works within the guidelines in the areas often have lower for meals in order to stop in anytime while when they send words of Jesus, the one you love a set. Jesus doesn't come in the questions always available why does it come whatever while he 's been dead when five Jesus finally arrives the endeavor or year four days and as we look at that when Jesus calls lifeless from the grave he resuscitate he doesn't resurrect to resuscitate no what that means is we always put us on the panel fundamentally, you know, you bring a resuscitation bring them back to life. He resuscitated him. He didn't resurrect him, because Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the life. And Jesus had risen from the dead, yet I saw the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead instills in the labor of the resurrection power so we can be resuscitated and a Lazarus was resuscitated to die again at some later date, but he knew where he was going any nowhere we would find a copy with why would Jesus Christ and Christ is with a man in our life. There is understanding about God 's law and God 's life in us that no matter what happens we are safe in the arms of our father and that we will go into eternity and heaven is our home and we have a place there, but because we learned because Christ has forgiven us. We have accepted all the Road not taken place of trying to analyze his palm over and over again. One person elder sickles as I CK ELS says the human tendency to wobble illogically indecision and later two so that the decision was, after all logical and enormously important, but for an American Taliban with SI, no interest in this poem Frost. It says I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence I will be reflecting back on this decision with a sigh, and then this person interpret the side as something that the speaker who knows what interesting experience may didn't encounter by taking the road again because they were experiences on the other road. So at the end of life across the same. Perhaps saying I will tell the story of my life with açai, knowing that the other road. There were experiences on their experience how I found that road. What whatever we are talking about this road that Jesus is telling us up on the narrow gate in the strait is the gate and that is the way and now is the gate, we will never ever repeat in eternity that we look back on our I with a sigh> your fly is like I should visit something else. I should've gone somewhere else. The loneliness would you know this road that we take with Christ, we will never have a sign I should have, would have could have taken, and it is in a speaker said on Tuesday night, and I've heard this expression before, if you remember the sixties, you weren't there and he's economically talking about while you are part of the griping of the drug culture of the outcome, free love, whatever the sixties represent while I was there and I remember why because I was in church. I was in Christ in college that was all it ain't the first two run and was there I was a year ahead of her state government had over my life, but I saw any how young the first year, while the others are first-year that they feel the drugs really started coming in the cup and the University and stop making everybody out there was an okay got about fifteen students were using drugs and by the senior year. I know of that college is they could not ever buy them on drugs they take up to record the school and now, because it was just one of those things going on that time, but it was interesting that the ones who became being got hooked up on drugs and hoped up on a all partying and going, being the parting scene in all, they didn't finish their information therefore appropriate time, and if they didn't finish it was just barely getting by being able to get through it destroyed and destroy their life and you see we have a place of beginning. As always, I look back over the sixties and the seventies. I don't do that with a little side because I was doing what I felt was right and serving God and I did not have in my dorm room. I had three other guys and I would be on my best friend at the time he Jan. After putting the bed he came in so drunk and him and I just push them up on the top bunk, then you would be drunk and you know and we'll talk about God, the other day I called him, was that than a couple years ago I called and I would give them talking about this and I remember I visit a close bond. There it I thought of his office and any immediately. Doctor so-and-so, I show you all and end these in a similar wish I say is calling us. It will tell the most holy Reverend Bishop of members: and his secretary so, father, I'll tell him right away and but there are so many things that go on in our life, and it only made and who hasn't made wrong choices. I mean we've all made to look to see the no life, the choices we make in serving God will never ever be looked at with a saw. The decisions we make in serving God and doing the right thing for the right reasons will never have a sign as if I have missed something, as if there were a better way there is no better way than the way of Christ. There is no better way than the way of forgiveness. There is no better way than the way of love and compassion and forgiveness. There is a better way and just lately following industrial stumbling and whatever, but that's not the point. The point is there is no better way. We never give up on our relationship with Christ because Christ never gives up on us. Jesus, whoever has given up on us, no matter where they fit no matter what we've done solid tarsus. The killer of Christians. God didn't give up on him. Man on the road to Damascus insists Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me why you while you hurting me by hurting my people, so that same Jesus is the same Jesus that we have a relationship with an end, whenever we make the decisions of our life is based upon this relational experience. We have a God of the decisions that we have a walking with God are based upon his word, what it means to Wasson is after seven tells on this road is one read read some of the Scriptures. The King James says in verse seven or maybe I'll start with verse one Road, Leicester. Pick on people, business, and the message Bible& people just don't jump on their failures criticized your fault, unless of course you want the same treatment. The road that we have with Jesus. He sees his broad is the way that leads to the structure and narrow is the gate and straight is the path means that there are bound there are traveling this traveling instructions for this road don't pick on people. Okay, no job on their failings. Okay, don't criticize other people 's balls. Okay, that evil spirit has a way of boomerang all is light, as well as the critical inability: actor Bobby and had hiragana boomerang unlimited and get out of the narrative back. It's easy to see the slides on your neighbor 's place and have the oblivious to the ugly sneer on your own. However, the North. The silently wash your face for you when your own place is distorted by content. If this whole traveling road mentality all over again claim the holier than thou art instead of just moving your part. I'll tell you, she being a Christian and following the road isn't playing a part in his blaming the part we are playing the part of a Christian, I'm going to dress up like interested today and I'm going to win this and act like this to become Christian and people. People like foolish that way, Yahoo, playing the part of the part I am a Christian because prices in my heart and he affects the way that I talk a lot and teach and preach an interactive editor with people in our Mother Teresa in Calcutta alone missionaries. I think I know the store before performing business. These walking one of our ministers is walking with her down the road down the street in Calcutta and while there together. She stop and go through a doorway and is holding this man go away into saying all I found my files and no, the preacher thought all things you found somebody that she knew and she was holding him and he died in the treason analysis is all that you know she said no, that was Jesus and I just found him as you have done it unto the least of these, you've done it unto me. If they were not acting apart we are living the part of a Christian and that whenever we live in the part of the Christian. We are expecting the power of God to flow through us because we can't leave this on our decanting a Christian without Christ. It can give him limb of the power of God without the power of God flowing through you. So what is it about how much we can do for the kingdom is how much we are however we are as a person and how we as a person are taught by the Spirit of God in the spirit of God gives us power and strength in the lowlands. The moment of temptation among trial, the moment of decisions. The moment that we need to find us there to help us don't be split with the socket with the sacred building flip it with excitement wrap and turn and silliness give honor do not. I can't read much of his writing here don't be left with the sacred inventor or selling. This is no honor to God. Don't reduce holy mysteries to slogan, and that it will not ask this is that going to the chapter seven verse seven don't bargain with God being the rack. Ask for what you need on this road this past nine figure pumping client fingernails, so why should we be pointing fingers at others and what you need on this route now bargain with God, you know God. It is a common don't bargain with God. Be direct as for what you need. This is in the cat and mouse hide and seek game wherein it shall be given you. Seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened and you must looking to if your child asks for bread, the trachea was sawdust. The first to use very much a live snake on his plate advantage. Think of such a thing. Your at least decent to your own children. So don't you think the God who conceived human love, the debtor will be even better machine. The route that we are walking on his guilt and condemnation aliveness and an understanding of faith and understanding of relational experiences and understanding of being supportive and loving and caring. Here's a simple rule ask yourself what you want people to do for you then grab the initiative and do it for them. Drawn as you have them do unto you branding initiative and do to others. She does love her, talking about whenever we look at this route, and if you look back on this shot I wonder what happened if I take another while the Scriptures tell us if we reject Christ were lost for eternity but not only that, in this life were alone were without hope and nothing but my highest goals are all that I can see it's so limiting& it's pretty friendly something how that critics will tell Christians that they are limiting their life, their limiting what they can be every become a Christian and you can't do this in candidate, but it's just the opposite. As a Christian we have the universe is our playground because the God who created it is God who lives in us and this is his universe. This is his place. We are his children and the creativity that is in our minds is the creativity that he is given us in the same spirit, the right price and that there was a power in an expectation that is alive in us that is greater than anyone could ever imagine because they cannot even imagine the things that God has prepared for us in solving our hearts and our minds is the way that God is at work in us whatever we traveled this road there is no sigh if I had taken the other I would be lost, but I'm not lost. I still had to make decisions. I still have to pray and ask for God 's guidance. But you know no matter what role God has a way of working all things together for good to those who love him are called according to his purpose. God has a way of taking my road and you know I may have gotten off a little bit, but you know what God has a way of bringing me back. God has a way of keeping me on the path I may fall down. I may need to camp therefore, while but that's okay because I will not raise eternity and look back with a sigh, I will look back and say, God, you have taken guided my footsteps every step of the way. That's assurance seek Jesus is talking about the road is talking about the choices and how we live on this road. How we live on this road, not a condemnation or guilt trip is not a narrow life. It's a full life, narrow, it's only now straight is a gate narrows again straightest path narrows a gay meaning Jesus Christ. No one gets to the heaven, but through Christ. Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life no one comes under the father but by me. Jesus said that he is the day that the only way it is one of many ways is the only way narrows again but straight is a path that this path. Mom is taking me to my destination. My heavenly home and on this journey with my heavenly home. I'm walking with Christ. Each step of the way and I know that I'm not a jump on other people 's problems and other people when they're down to help people whenever they are in need of the love people when they are there. Mother Teresa that one an easy set. I found them. I found him. I found Jesus. She found one that you can help. Just as Jesus, you cannot close the distance on the school talked about Peter and how that shortly after Pentecost, Peter comes across this individual who is laying catwalk and Pierce as silver and gold have I not, but that's if I have given the alliance of the in the name of Jesus Christ, Liza walk Lapeer was doing was dawned on him at that moment that he was a continuation of the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Through it all came together as one. The first miracles and he said, in the name of Jesus. He recognized that what Jesus was doing. He is now a continuation of and let the power of Christ now flows through him to touch the life of this meeting that that's us, the continuation of Christ flowing through us to touch the needs of the lives of others. We have a purpose on this road less traveled. So is father, we thank you. We thank you that you heard our prayers. We thank you Lord that you know why needs in God there is no sigh of what could've been only what is in the power to make the right choices where we are at in our life. I pray Lord, you encourage our hearts to give us the strength for this day flow through us. Oh Lord, let your power, your spirit just flow through us and encourage us, O Lord, as we realize the value that you have upon our life. Thank you Jesus for hearing our prayer. Thank you Jesus for moving in my life and touching the right. We pray this in JesusAnd it's the true Road and taking the one less traveled roads. One was from that chapter seven, verses thirteen, fourteen, nineteen, James version says injury at the strait gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in there at because strait is the gate and narrow the way which lead onto life, and few there be that find it on the message Bible has the look for shortcuts, the God market is flooded with surefire easy-going formulas for a successful life. They can be practice in your spare time. Don't fall for that stop even though crowds of people do the way to life to God is vigorous and requires total attention. Now it was seeing the obvious declaration that Jesus is pretty here is that you wrote, there is a bad way and wrong way of sin and there is a good way of holiness and closeness to God. There are but two ways. There are right and wrong right with Jesus wrong without Jesus and yell it isn't that we would have this ability to always be right. I memorable cartoon. The pastor was counseling this guy in the cartoon stated, it is a spiritual gift to always be right. Okay. So anyhow, there is good and evil. There is a way to heaven. The way to hell. Every person is walking one of these throughout so everyone is on one of these throat throughout the Scripture says that the broad way is a way of selfishness where there is no hedges where there are no boundaries. The way that appears to be right in the eyes of an individual where there is no higher power. There is no greater influence than themselves, and this descriptor refers to is there is a way to think of right to a man, but the end thereof is the structure around where accountability is determined by cell where the accountability is made up of their own particular rules where people become gods, and they think that things become status symbols around where heartache has no purpose or life has no greater need than the serving of itself, and where death is a history and that is nothing beyond a great as we continue to see what this route. What this road may look like it is a wrong where laws are made to be broken were selfish desires become the dreams of our destiny. Where progress is determined by stepping on or over people trying to achieve that rates status that is ever elusive. The broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in the rat message Bible says don't look for shortcuts, the God so whatever we think of being to grow slowly pick up that there is a path of righteousness. There is a time that is a part of unrighteousness and sometimes it's hard to know I learned there are those black and white yet there are no there is seemingly gray areas. While can I do this and can I do that. What was wrote early on and how do we want to live on this route, and I think that in the Scripture that Jesus is telling us here and that there are two roads, but there is characteristics that we are to follow on these roads. The road straight is a narrow strait is the path narrows the gate and is there is there are characteristics that are to dominate this road but there's being able to choose being able to choose which road and understand that the characteristics of the road. Anybody ever hear of Robert Frost, avionics takes prostitutes, Robert Frost is a the whole iPad on the name of Ms. one of his famous poem, the Road not taken by the arena on the road not taken our even if you haven't two roadster birds in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down down one as far as I could to where advantage in the undergrowth then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, because it was grassy and wanted wear, though, is far that the passing there had worn them really about the same, and both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black. All I kept the first for another day yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubt if I should ever come back. I shall tell. I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence two roads diverge in the woods and I took. I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. So, the Rocha Road less one Road less traveled, taken the road less traveled the road not taken, and this poem critics have tried to analyze the polymeric toward in the poem takes is truly it all up to the reader. We sometimes try to get into the mind of the Pulitzer. No one flossed intention was what he was trying to say while probably he was trying to say it's up to you to determine the way and how that we look at it and find that there are two roads. There always two roads to choose from, there's always up a choice that we make, and we wonder what are the choices of where will the road, take a in all. And whatever we think of Nixon and when I think in this, I think of people I think of people that perhaps small sign set here years ago, many years ago and at that point in their life they were. I'm as this one individual or member of the limits on this stuff like that will ever one individual that sat here and he and his wife and children were here in church and it was a crossroads in that individual 's life, and I don't think they that he knew what it was because he talked to me about coming to church became a couple times a schedule. I just don't think this religion thing is white Ford for me and my family. I don't think that this is been installed narrow because I am kind of exploring these the spiritual stuff and get off like it was including all everything will anyhow, this individual never came back to church and in this case this person went down the wrong road which led to me being in this total disaster for his life and for the life of his family and always felt bad because you know whenever you think of that you think of how one of you and said something differently. What if you had enabled to present the message in a different way. Whatever you had been able to say things differently whether that made a difference in the life and I I don't know. I can know just don't know what the final decision is always up to the person and we will stand before God, and that person can say what you know that Richard and say a writer I would believe while we chat with a look at our life and realize we are at a crossroads. We make decisions all the time and we've got to make decisions based upon the truth of God 's word and how that it is time to look to separate us from him. He looks to bring us close to him, and that every trial in every difficulty may not originate with God and the things of the past may have been totally blown out of the water. And while away, but then that's not the important thing. The important thing is that we recognize the work were traveling with God and that God is with us, and we make decisions based upon our understanding of God and his love for us in staying on a path that will take us to where we need to be because there are lots of pounds. There are lots of trails that will lead to destruction. And they look very appealing. They look as if this is the place and this is the direction I want to go to fix it with my group that I am associated with war and fanfare when you're an easier task. While not good enough for being a Christian, you see those of the road with temptations that lead to destruction, and God doesn't lead us on that path God leads us on a path that will take us someplace that place is heaven, and our past is not what dictates whether we go to heaven or not. Our presence and our relationship with Jesus Christ is what determines where we will spend eternity. So here we are in our life making a decision based upon our belief in what Jesus Christ has promised us two thousand years ago. Then he died on the cross to forgive us of our sins, and that Hezbollah would wash away all our sins, he rose again that the same spirit oh two. The race cry from the dead will not look like in our mortal bodies, your may operate in the something was when Lazarus was sick. Okay, last of the secondary Martha, I saw that I was a number of times with his level point I came across lakes. The different impact for me very much know that Jesus loves Lazarus and less intuitive to use. He is their best friend. They are his best friends outside of the disciples as though Jesus goes to their homeland. He spends time with family works within the guidelines in the areas often have lower for meals in order to stop in anytime while when they send words of Jesus, the one you love a set. Jesus doesn't come in the questions always available why does it come whatever while he 's been dead when five Jesus finally arrives the endeavor or year four days and as we look at that when Jesus calls lifeless from the grave he resuscitate he doesn't resurrect to resuscitate no what that means is we always put us on the panel fundamentally, you know, you bring a resuscitation bring them back to life. He resuscitated him. He didn't resurrect him, because Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the life. And Jesus had risen from the dead, yet I saw the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead instills in the labor of the resurrection power so we can be resuscitated and a Lazarus was resuscitated to die again at some later date, but he knew where he was going any nowhere we would find a copy with why would Jesus Christ and Christ is with a man in our life. There is understanding about God 's law and God 's life in us that no matter what happens we are safe in the arms of our father and that we will go into eternity and heaven is our home and we have a place there, but because we learned because Christ has forgiven us. We have accepted all the Road not taken place of trying to analyze his palm over and over again. One person elder sickles as I CK ELS says the human tendency to wobble illogically indecision and later two so that the decision was, after all logical and enormously important, but for an American Taliban with SI, no interest in this poem Frost. It says I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence I will be reflecting back on this decision with a sigh, and then this person interpret the side as something that the speaker who knows what interesting experience may didn't encounter by taking the road again because they were experiences on the other road. So at the end of life across the same. Perhaps saying I will tell the story of my life with açai, knowing that the other road. There were experiences on their experience how I found that road. What whatever we are talking about this road that Jesus is telling us up on the narrow gate in the strait is the gate and that is the way and now is the gate, we will never ever repeat in eternity that we look back on our I with a sigh> your fly is like I should visit something else. I should've gone somewhere else. The loneliness would you know this road that we take with Christ, we will never have a sign I should have, would have could have taken, and it is in a speaker said on Tuesday night, and I've heard this expression before, if you remember the sixties, you weren't there and he's economically talking about while you are part of the griping of the drug culture of the outcome, free love, whatever the sixties represent while I was there and I remember why because I was in church. I was in Christ in college that was all it ain't the first two run and was there I was a year ahead of her state government had over my life, but I saw any how young the first year, while the others are first-year that they feel the drugs really started coming in the cup and the University and stop making everybody out there was an okay got about fifteen students were using drugs and by the senior year. I know of that college is they could not ever buy them on drugs they take up to record the school and now, because it was just one of those things going on that time, but it was interesting that the ones who became being got hooked up on drugs and hoped up on a all partying and going, being the parting scene in all, they didn't finish their information therefore appropriate time, and if they didn't finish it was just barely getting by being able to get through it destroyed and destroy their life and you see we have a place of beginning. As always, I look back over the sixties and the seventies. I don't do that with a little side because I was doing what I felt was right and serving God and I did not have in my dorm room. I had three other guys and I would be on my best friend at the time he Jan. After putting the bed he came in so drunk and him and I just push them up on the top bunk, then you would be drunk and you know and we'll talk about God, the other day I called him, was that than a couple years ago I called and I would give them talking about this and I remember I visit a close bond. There it I thought of his office and any immediately. Doctor so-and-so, I show you all and end these in a similar wish I say is calling us. It will tell the most holy Reverend Bishop of members: and his secretary so, father, I'll tell him right away and but there are so many things that go on in our life, and it only made and who hasn't made wrong choices. I mean we've all made to look to see the no life, the choices we make in serving God will never ever be looked at with a saw. The decisions we make in serving God and doing the right thing for the right reasons will never have a sign as if I have missed something, as if there were a better way there is no better way than the way of Christ. There is no better way than the way of forgiveness. There is no better way than the way of love and compassion and forgiveness. There is a better way and just lately following industrial stumbling and whatever, but that's not the point. The point is there is no better way. We never give up on our relationship with Christ because Christ never gives up on us. Jesus, whoever has given up on us, no matter where they fit no matter what we've done solid tarsus. The killer of Christians. God didn't give up on him. Man on the road to Damascus insists Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me why you while you hurting me by hurting my people, so that same Jesus is the same Jesus that we have a relationship with an end, whenever we make the decisions of our life is based upon this relational experience. We have a God of the decisions that we have a walking with God are based upon his word, what it means to Wasson is after seven tells on this road is one read read some of the Scriptures. The King James says in verse seven or maybe I'll start with verse one Road, Leicester. Pick on people, business, and the message Bible& people just don't jump on their failures criticized your fault, unless of course you want the same treatment. The road that we have with Jesus. He sees his broad is the way that leads to the structure and narrow is the gate and straight is the path means that there are bound there are traveling this traveling instructions for this road don't pick on people. Okay, no job on their failings. Okay, don't criticize other people 's balls. Okay, that evil spirit has a way of boomerang all is light, as well as the critical inability: actor Bobby and had hiragana boomerang unlimited and get out of the narrative back. It's easy to see the slides on your neighbor 's place and have the oblivious to the ugly sneer on your own. However, the North. The silently wash your face for you when your own place is distorted by content. If this whole traveling road mentality all over again claim the holier than thou art instead of just moving your part. I'll tell you, she being a Christian and following the road isn't playing a part in his blaming the part we are playing the part of a Christian, I'm going to dress up like interested today and I'm going to win this and act like this to become Christian and people. People like foolish that way, Yahoo, playing the part of the part I am a Christian because prices in my heart and he affects the way that I talk a lot and teach and preach an interactive editor with people in our Mother Teresa in Calcutta alone missionaries. I think I know the store before performing business. These walking one of our ministers is walking with her down the road down the street in Calcutta and while there together. She stop and go through a doorway and is holding this man go away into saying all I found my files and no, the preacher thought all things you found somebody that she knew and she was holding him and he died in the treason analysis is all that you know she said no, that was Jesus and I just found him as you have done it unto the least of these, you've done it unto me. If they were not acting apart we are living the part of a Christian and that whenever we live in the part of the Christian. We are expecting the power of God to flow through us because we can't leave this on our decanting a Christian without Christ. It can give him limb of the power of God without the power of God flowing through you. So what is it about how much we can do for the kingdom is how much we are however we are as a person and how we as a person are taught by the Spirit of God in the spirit of God gives us power and strength in the lowlands. The moment of temptation among trial, the moment of decisions. The moment that we need to find us there to help us don't be split with the socket with the sacred building flip it with excitement wrap and turn and silliness give honor do not. I can't read much of his writing here don't be left with the sacred inventor or selling. This is no honor to God. Don't reduce holy mysteries to slogan, and that it will not ask this is that going to the chapter seven verse seven don't bargain with God being the rack. Ask for what you need on this road this past nine figure pumping client fingernails, so why should we be pointing fingers at others and what you need on this route now bargain with God, you know God. It is a common don't bargain with God. Be direct as for what you need. This is in the cat and mouse hide and seek game wherein it shall be given you. Seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened and you must looking to if your child asks for bread, the trachea was sawdust. The first to use very much a live snake on his plate advantage. Think of such a thing. Your at least decent to your own children. So don't you think the God who conceived human love, the debtor will be even better machine. The route that we are walking on his guilt and condemnation aliveness and an understanding of faith and understanding of relational experiences and understanding of being supportive and loving and caring. Here's a simple rule ask yourself what you want people to do for you then grab the initiative and do it for them. Drawn as you have them do unto you branding initiative and do to others. She does love her, talking about whenever we look at this route, and if you look back on this shot I wonder what happened if I take another while the Scriptures tell us if we reject Christ were lost for eternity but not only that, in this life were alone were without hope and nothing but my highest goals are all that I can see it's so limiting& it's pretty friendly something how that critics will tell Christians that they are limiting their life, their limiting what they can be every become a Christian and you can't do this in candidate, but it's just the opposite. As a Christian we have the universe is our playground because the God who created it is God who lives in us and this is his universe. This is his place. We are his children and the creativity that is in our minds is the creativity that he is given us in the same spirit, the right price and that there was a power in an expectation that is alive in us that is greater than anyone could ever imagine because they cannot even imagine the things that God has prepared for us in solving our hearts and our minds is the way that God is at work in us whatever we traveled this road there is no sigh if I had taken the other I would be lost, but I'm not lost. I still had to make decisions. I still have to pray and ask for God 's guidance. But you know no matter what role God has a way of working all things together for good to those who love him are called according to his purpose. God has a way of taking my road and you know I may have gotten off a little bit, but you know what God has a way of bringing me back. God has a way of keeping me on the path I may fall down. I may need to camp therefore, while but that's okay because I will not raise eternity and look back with a sigh, I will look back and say, God, you have taken guided my footsteps every step of the way. That's assurance seek Jesus is talking about the road is talking about the choices and how we live on this road. How we live on this road, not a condemnation or guilt trip is not a narrow life. It's a full life, narrow, it's only now straight is a gate narrows again straightest path narrows a gay meaning Jesus Christ. No one gets to the heaven, but through Christ. Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life no one comes under the father but by me. Jesus said that he is the day that the only way it is one of many ways is the only way narrows again but straight is a path that this path. Mom is taking me to my destination. My heavenly home and on this journey with my heavenly home. I'm walking with Christ. Each step of the way and I know that I'm not a jump on other people 's problems and other people when they're down to help people whenever they are in need of the love people when they are there. Mother Teresa that one an easy set. I found them. I found him. I found Jesus. She found one that you can help. Just as Jesus, you cannot close the distance on the school talked about Peter and how that shortly after Pentecost, Peter comes across this individual who is laying catwalk and Pierce as silver and gold have I not, but that's if I have given the alliance of the in the name of Jesus Christ, Liza walk Lapeer was doing was dawned on him at that moment that he was a continuation of the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Through it all came together as one. The first miracles and he said, in the name of Jesus. He recognized that what Jesus was doing. He is now a continuation of and let the power of Christ now flows through him to touch the life of this meeting that that's us, the continuation of Christ flowing through us to touch the needs of the lives of others. We have a purpose on this road less traveled. So is father, we thank you. We thank you that you heard our prayers. We thank you Lord that you know why needs in God there is no sigh of what could've been only what is in the power to make the right choices where we are at in our life. I pray Lord, you encourage our hearts to give us the strength for this day flow through us. Oh Lord, let your power, your spirit just flow through us and encourage us, O Lord, as we realize the value that you have upon our life. Thank you Jesus for hearing our prayer. Thank you Jesus for moving in my life and touching the right. We pray this in Jesus