There is a way to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus calls it the straight way and the narrow gate. IF you choose to live in righteousness; IF you choose to obey the Word of God; IF you choose to become what Jesus is instead of what your family and friends expect, you will find the kingdom and you will find His life.
The straight and narrow way in the Greek is obstacles, afflictions, and persecutions that result from the narrowness of of the path of a son of God.. Choose another way outside of the straight and narrow way snd you will be walking the same broad path as every other weak, powerless, opinionated modern christian.
But if you choose to narrow your life and walk in the same level of consecration that Jesus walked in, you will walk in His ability and His authority.
The consecration that Jesus is asking us to walk in is OFFENSIVE to nearly ALL men. But it is bread to those who are pure in heart, the meek, the poor in spirit, those who mourn, those who hunger for righteousness, the peacemakers, and the persecuted. “Take up your cross and follow me…”
The earth is groaning for the sons of God who walk like, talk like, and act like Christ with no caveats. No one else is to blame but ourselves for not representing Jesus fully.
The straining and the groaning will continue and until the birth pangs of the earth push out the glorious sons of God, without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish, unpolluted by the world. And they will be glorious.
Matthew 7:13-14 “Enter at the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who are going through it, because small is the gate and narrow is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
Matthew 5:11 “Blessed are you when men revile you, and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.”