![]() ![]() For everyone who asks receives the one who seeks finds and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened" (Matthew 7:7–8). ![]() ![]() However, a few verses earlier, Jesus had told the same audience, "Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and the door will be opened to you. It sounds as though God has rated us all on some scale of acceptability and only allows a select few to enter His presence. When we read the word narrow, we tend to associate it with prejudicial selection. After all, if He really wants to save everyone, why didn’t He make it easier to be saved? Why doesn’t He simply let everyone into heaven? But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." This passage causes some to question the goodness of God. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. In Matthew 7:13–14, Jesus said, "Enter through the narrow gate.
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