{"id":14660,"date":"2021-08-08T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T21:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davismountain.org\/?p=14660"},"modified":"2023-05-31T07:25:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:25:16","slug":"narrow-is-the-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davismountain.org\/?p=14660","title":{"rendered":"Narrow is the Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cBecause&nbsp;narrow&nbsp;is&nbsp;the gate and&nbsp;difficult&nbsp;is the&nbsp;way which leads to life, and there are&nbsp;few&nbsp;who find it.\u201d Matthew 7:14<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;difficult way&nbsp;is the path through our hearts that we must navigate in order to reach the narrow gate and eternal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Jesus Christ said the way is difficult, the modern church thinks it is easy and teaches that salvation is achieved when a sinner makes a decision or says a simple prayer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compare the ease of reciting a prayer to struggling down a difficult path. No wonder He said, \u201cThere are few who find it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.\u201d Matthew 16:24-25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBecause&nbsp;narrow&nbsp;is&nbsp;the gate and&nbsp;difficult&nbsp;is the&nbsp;way which leads to life, and there are&nbsp;few&nbsp;who find it.\u201d Matthew 7:14 The&nbsp;difficult way&nbsp;is the path through our hearts that we must navigate in order to reach the narrow gate and eternal life. While Jesus Christ said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davismountain.org\/?p=14660\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davismountain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davismountain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davismountain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davismountain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davismountain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davismountain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14818,"href":"https:\/\/davismountain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14660\/revisions\/14818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davismountain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davismountain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davismountain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}