Enter through the narrow gate.
Matthew 7:13, NIV
Is the gate of salvation too narrow for some sinners who truly repent? Perhaps they’ve committed unspeakable crimes and hideous sins. Or perhaps you yourself have thought, “I’m too bad to be saved.”
J. C. Ryle wrote: “No sinner was ever turned back, and told he was too bad to be admitted, if he came really sick of his sins. Thousands of all sorts have been received, cleansed, washed, pardoned, clothed, and made heirs of eternal life. Some of them seemed very unlikely to be admitted. You and I might have thought they were too bad to be saved. But He that built the gate did not refuse them. As soon as they knocked, He gave orders that they should be let in.”1
Paul said, “‘Jesus came into the world to save sinners’—and I am the worst of them all. But God had mercy on me so that Christ Jesus could use me as a prime example of his great patience with even the worst sinners. Then others will realize that they, too, can believe in him and receive eternal life” (1 Timothy 1:15-16, NLT).
Christ can take the most sin-laden, selfish, evil person and bring forgiveness and new life.
Billy Graham
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