Choose Your Path

A wide interstate highway is smooth and appealing. It has everything you could ever want. This highway appears safe and many are encouraging you to take it. The world loves those high speed straightaways. Preachers are even preaching that there's nothing wrong with an interstate, that all roads lead to a really good destination - so enjoy the journey, and that God just wants us to drive happy. On the wide highway, each traveler is distracted with looking at the billboards, the restaurants, the cities, the shopping malls.... The highway is crowded, a huge traffic jam, but no one notices. Instead, they make room for more. However, no one notices or cares where it is headed, they ignore those destination signs that state it inevitably leads to only one destination: Hell. Some signs say within one mile for some of the travelers, other travelers see hundreds of miles left. But, it is all the same direction, the same destination.

To the side is a majestic, yet daunting mountain, and on this mountain - a narrow mountain road. Every exit off the highway seems to offer the chance to head that way. Occasionally the highway travelers see the occasional person standing at those exits, pleading and begging, warning the drivers to take that way instead. Many can see it, and can see it's difficulties, dangers, persecutions, and even death. However, it is for the determined traveler who keeps their eyes ahead to their destination: Christ's eternal Kingdom. The narrow mountain road is not safe, not at all. At the slightest moment of carelessness, you could crash down into oblivion. Lions and wolves hide out on the mountain. Some highway drivers even head that way, not to travel the narrow path, but to convince and tempt you off of it.

Walking the narrow mountain road is not easy, and there will be many times that it seems you walk it alone as you are having to climb that mountain. No one is cheering you on and many are instead calling you a rebel, non-compliant, and legalistic. They are saying that if you take that narrow dangerous path, that you must not care about yourself or others, to stop being hateful and selfish - though it couldn't be further from the truth. You try to encourage them to join you, speaking Truth in love and with salt, and in return they ridicule. But, you know that as soon as you reach the end, if you persevere and trust in the internal GPS of the Holy Spirit, that the destination will be more wonderful than you can ever imagine.

No one ever said it would be easy. God never said that His Way would be wide enough for all people. He said His Way is narrow and though many seek it, few find it. So many Christians today are zooming down that highway. They blare Christian radio stations like K-Love and Air1 out of their car's radios, yet their eyes are on the billboards advertising adult bookstores and they have earbuds in their ears that are blaring vain and profane music. Their mouths speak blasphemies, profanities, and vulgarities inside of the car, but out the window they scream out Bible verses and "Jesus Loves You". Their car's interior is filled with filth, abominations, and idols - yet the outside of the car is squeaky clean and waxed. Their car engines are rusted and corroded, neglected, but their tires are in tip top shape to get them smoothly on their way. They are dressed in their Sunday best, yet their bodies underneath are coated in the filth of their wickedness.

    They pull off the highway at the gas station of decision, and look up at that narrow path going up the Lord's Mountain. A sojourner heading towards the mountain stops to chat with them at the gas station. But while the sojourner purchases water to drink, the highway Christian purchases gasoline, volatile burning gasoline to get them back on the highway at full speed. The highway Christian makes fun of the mountain sojourner, says "You're a liar, outdated, old-fashioned, and judgmental! Who wants to climb a mountain when we can speed easily and smoothly on the highway!?" The sojourner warns the highway Christian that they are heading to Hell, to purchase that living water and not the gasoline of the world. But thinking himself the wiser and more righteous, the highway Christian gets back on the highway.

The highway Christian thinks his way is right, because everyone else is doing it. The churches are doing it, the cities are doing it, the world is doing it. No one is getting hurt, it seems to help, so why not? The highway Christian thinks it's enough to listen to Christian music, go to church on Sunday, and dress their best. Yet, their hearts couldn't be further from the Lord. Their filth is a stench to the Lord and they will be apportioned to His wrath if they do not repent. They will arrive in Hell, right alongside the wicked who didn't even try to hide their wickedness.

The sojourner, with his eyes focused on that mountain top, paces himself and spends countless moments in prayer to the One Who Encourages, the One Who gives him strength. He only pauses for a second to see the danger ahead, being filled with fear, yet he keeps climbing because He knows that the One Who is with him, will keep him safe. At times he knows that he may trip or stumble. Yet, as he cries out to his Helper, the Lord, he will be okay and lifted back up. On occasion, the sojourner can see the highway and it's traffic jam. In vain he yells out at the top of his voice, warning the travelers, but they cannot hear. It takes a long time and is so tedious and exhausting climbing the narrow mountain path, but the sojourner, that true follower of Christ Jesus, knows that it'll all be worth it once he reaches the summit. He knows that step by step, he is heading home to safety, peace, and rest.

Everyone drives the highway to Hell at some point in their life, however we all have the option of stepping off that road and directing our repentant feet onto the narrow path that Jesus provided for us through His death upon the cross and His resurrection. Can you keep your eyes on Christ, tuning out the scoffing, the fear, the rejection of those on the highway?

Choose the narrow path of righteousness and don't leave it. We have the option to leave and go back to that deadly highway of sin. But if you persevere, repent daily, and stay true to the Word of God and to Jesus, you will reach that narrow gate, home.

I tell you now that the moment has come to choose. No one can travel both paths at the same time, you are either on the wide highway or on the narrow mountain path. I warn the church, everyone who reads this, that the Lord is not blind nor dumb. He sees each and every person, every traveler, and He knows which path you are on. And He is giving each of you the opportunity now to decide. He will not allow exits for much longer, so take that exit now and get onto the narrow way now, before he blocks those exits and removes his servants who stand there warning. Before the Restrainer is removed and the Son of Perdition is revealed.

The day is coming when war will be raged against the Saints, the Remnant of the Lord. Are you like the highway Christian, or are you the mountain sojourner? Many right now will say they are the latter, when really they are the former. Do not deceive yourselves! If you are in love with the world and the world is loving you in return, you are on that highway! If you see no wrong in those things the Lord calls sin and abomination....woe to you! Do not continue to live your life in ignorance, fear, and sin. Turn from your sin and idols, repent! Stop telling yourself that God's Word is only subjective and that every man's interpretation of Scripture is true - so we must all unify and join back together (ecumenicalism).

Do not continue to jeopardize your eternal soul in exchange for saving your sinful flesh. So many are choosing based on fear of a virus, fear of this, fear of that. So many are deceiving themselves thinking man, medicine, science, government, celebrity, leader, preacher so-n-so, etc... have the answers! Jesus is the only answer! Anyone who says anything different and preaches another gospel is a fool.

Leave the lukewarm apostate churches, my brethren! Leave them! They force you onto the highway to Hell with honeyed words and false promises. If the Lord is convicting you leave, leave quickly - lest you get swept away with them. They teach lies and death, twisting the very Word of God to fit the Deceiver's desires. Those promoting the vaccine, leave! Those teaching God is love only, leave! Those who are saying do what makes you happy, you were born that way, leave! Those who teach feel-good, how-to sermons, leave! Those who tell you it's about living your best life now, leave! Those who are telling you that you have to observe all the Jewish laws and customs in order to be saved, leave! Those who are saying all denominations and "Abrahamic" religions should unite together, leave! Those who focus more on man and less on the Lord, leave! Those who never go beyond the basics of the faith, never teaching the entire Word, never teaching discipleship, never teaching anything but psychological-sociological fluff messages along with New Age methods and practices, leave! Those who encourage occult traditions and practice open idolatry in any form, leave! Those who claim we are to conquer the world for Christ, leave! Those who call you to rise up, rebel, stand up together, and take back your political freedoms, leave! Those who never mention sin, repentance, righteousness, or Hell, leave! Failure to leave these churches will become blood on your own head. Do not partake with these apostates who dine at the table of demons. Do not say you were not warned.

So which path are you on? The wide highway, traffic heavy, following everyone in the same direction and each with their own ideas, reasons, and beliefs? Or are you on that one lane dirt road in the mountains, with precarious cliffs, hairpin curves, alone and unpopular because of Christ and His Word?

13 "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. 15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do mean gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles?

17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them. 21 Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

22 Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' 23 And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!' 24 Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock; 25 and the rain descendent, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

26 But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall."

 - Matthew 7:13-27