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From The Pastor

From the Pastor
Someone has said that Satan is like a burglar running down the hallway of a hotel, trying all the doors to see which are unlocked. The seven deadly sins are those doors we most often leave unlocked. I sometimes think that we not only leave the door unlocked, but we also put a sign out reading, “Come on in!” Unfortunately, this is our undoing. Jesus put it this way. He said, “Enter by the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction.” 
 
Now, one way to think about the two gates of life is in terms of two triangles. One of them, the wide gate, — is shaped like a teepee lying on its side. Where the teepee would usually touch the ground, you have this huge opening of the wide gate. Entering this gate is like stepping into Spring Break in Daytona Beach, Florida.” Anything goes, especially the sin of Lust, which is what I will be talking about on Sunday. The point is, you are free to do whatever without considering the consequences, which is the way the world says everyone should live by the way. And, for what it is worth, it looks so inviting and so free. But, after you enter that wide gate, the walls immediately begin to close in on you. And as you go further in, you find this way is not as much fun as it was before. It’s getting narrower, and in the end, you run right smack into a dead end. 
We might think of the narrow gate as a “V” shape. You enter at the narrowest point. When you look at the gate from the outside, you might say, “That way is so not fun! That is the way to death by boredom. Entering that gate means fearing God and walking in God’s path, and I want no part of that restrictive life.” But do you know what happens? You enter through the narrow gate, and immediately your life opens up. Suddenly you are living in a realm of unimaginable freedom, a vastness that you could never have dreamed of from the outside. The path beyond this gate ends in the glorious freedom of God’s children, both now and into eternity. When it comes to the sin of Lust, or any of the seven deadly sins, Jesus says, “Enter by the narrow gate.”  
Pastor John 
Quote of the Week
“Love is the great conqueror of lust.” 
C.S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape LettersThe Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere ChristianityMiracles, and The Problem of Pain