THE CHOSEN FEW!

Text: Matthew 7:13-14

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Chosen - selected or preferred above all; pick of the crop; favorite; jewel; apple of one’s eye; choicest. 
Few - small in number; not many; a selected or limited group.

Religion teaches that the “broad way” is the way of the world or the way of the unsaved!  Yes it is “broad”, but this “broad way” that Jesus is speaking of is in the church!  It’s the path on which the “kings of the earth”, that Revelation 19:19 speaks of, are leading God’s people to get them to where God is (in heaven), and it is by way of the grave!  That’s why Jesus said that this way, the “broad way”, which is the way of religious order, leads to destruction:  apo’leia and apol’lum, meaning perdition or ruin, waste, damned, to die, perish, loss of well-being, to be lost, or destroy fully.  These are those that follow after Colossians 2:8  Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.  They are waiting for death to take them where God is so that they can have “eternal life”!  

There is no “life” to get after death.  We must take hold of and maintain “life” right now!  John 10:10 “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:  I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly”.   Matthew 1:23  Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name EMMANUEL, which being interpreted is, GOD WITH US!

Please take hold of this:  Death does not change man and bring him into the resurrection and eternal life:  but the resurrection (anas’tasis – recovery of spiritual truth) delivers man from sin and death and brings him into eternal life!  Romans 8:2  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death!

This is the “life” (eternal and everlasting life) that man has become alienated from as a consequence of the fall.  Ephesians 4:18  Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life (zoe) of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.  But it is of “this life” that men can become partakers through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!!!  

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:  that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.  “Delusion” comes from the root word plane’, meaning fraudulence, a straying away from piety (godliness); and another root word plan’os, meaning an imposter or misleader; deceiver.  In other words, someone who will preach to you what you want to hear:  A “one of these days “message. “When Jesus comes back, he’s going to take us to heaven to be with him”.  “We will walk the streets of gold”:  etc.  This is what most Christians want to hear and believe!  I don’t preach that!  Jesus is already here and living in us!  When we are in Christ, we are already in heaven!  Ephesians 2:6“And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus”.   There is only one “street” and the “WAY” or “PATH” or foundation that has been laid which is CHRIST!  Revelation 21:22  And the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.  Revelation 22:2  In the midst of the street of it, and of either side of the river, was there the tree of life.  John 14:6  I am the way, the truth, and the life.  Job 28:7  There is a path, which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen.  1 Corinthians 3:11  For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is JESUS CHRIST.

“Enter ye in at the strait gate”, the stenos’, meaning narrow (from obstacles standing close about):  or stenochore’o, meaning to hem in closely, cramp; distress; straiten.  Not “straight”, but “strait”!

This “strait way” is the way of “life” or “zoe”!  It is not comfortable, but it’s the best way because it is the right way, which is following Christ!

Luke 12:50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! This “baptism” was not with water but with the “FIRE” of God!!!

Listen, Jesus had already been baptized by John in Matthew 3.  But He was speaking of another “baptism”!  Jesus’s bap’tisma was in three parts:

(1) Immersion:  to put into a liquid; to engross; to absorb; Him being overwhelmed and filled with the Holy Ghost (Matthew 3).

(2) Submersion:  to plunge under the surface of; manifested through Jesus’ crucifixion, death, and burial (Matthew 27).

(3) Emergence:  to rise into view; His resurrection (Matthew 28).  This was all done by the ordination and power of God’s Spirit!

John’s baptism was unto “repentance”.  Christian baptism identifies them with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection.  Jesus’s baptism, Luke 12:50, was the overwhelming afflictions, bitterness, sufferings of the “fire judgment” of God, to which He voluntarily submitted to on the Cross!  This is the “straitening” that Jesus was referring to!

He had to go through it because He knew His followers would experience it to.  But He (Jesus) was first partaker so that we through Him could and would become victorious!!!  Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.  That’s why He gave us the Holy Ghost and that with Fire!

Genesis 3:24 He placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.  The only way back to the “tree of life” is through the “purifying fire of God”!

This wasn’t just any kind of “sword”, but it was a “flaming sword”!  “Flaming” which is from the root word la’hat, meaning a blaze.   Hebrews 12:29 Our God is a consuming fire!  John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  So is our God who is the Word, who is “FIRE” Himself!

This “fire” starts burning on the “head” first, or in the mind, to purify it so that we can think like God!

God always starts “Head first”!  Jesus is the “Beginning” of the creation – the “Head” of the church!  The “head” symbolizes authority, origin, dignity, intellect, etc.

Babies are born “head first”.  If not, it is called a “breach”, which violates the law of nature, or it is an infringement of what God put in place.  The synonyms for “breach” are split, rift, schism, dissension, discord, chasm, illegality, infringement, violation.  That’s why there’s so much discord in the church because it hasn’t put Christ “Head first”!  Well, He is the HEAD of the “true church”, but “Jezebel” is leading the “false church” system.

God starts with the “head” first.  Genesis 1:1“ In the beginning God created”.  This “beginning” was not a calendar date, but a “PERSON” – Jesus the Christ!  Colossians 1:18” He is the HEAD of the body, the church:   who is the beginning”.  Revelation 1:8 “ I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending”:  Vs 11 “The first and the last”.  Revelation 3:14 “These thing saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness; the beginning of the creation of God”.

Anatomically and physically, what the body does first is to get and follow the instructions of the head!  The commander in chief (the brain) consists of the “cerebrum” and cerebellum”.  The “cerebellum” has two hemispheres that carry out different functions.  The cerebrum has five (5) lobes:  frontal; parietal; temporal; occipital; insula.  But I’m going to touch only on the “frontal” lobe.  The “frontal” lobe is located in the “forehead”!  It deals with personality; higher intellectual processes (concentration, planning, and decision making); and verbal communication.  But God doesn’t want us to just be “cerebral”.  He wants us to be spiritual as well!  Romans 8:14” For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God”.

When David was confronted with Goliath, he was able to defeat him because he used one of the five smooth stones (equivalent to the five-fold ministry).  Over a period of time, the water in the brook (the Word of God) had perfected the stones!!!  David took one of the stones, the Word of God, the fire of God, and sank it into Goliath’s “forehead”.  Remember this is where planning and verbal communication takes place.  Either stone (apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor or teacher) would have and did do the job.  If I had to say which one, I’d say “the teacher”.  Because it taught that enemy, Goliath, who David’s God was, and it totally cut off his verbal communication and rendered his plans against David null and void!!!   

In Genesis 2:7, the LORD God formed the “man” (male & female) starting with his “mind”, the “head”!  The word “formed” in the Hebrew is yatsar’, meaning through the squeezing into shape; to mold into a form, as a potter; to determine; fashion; to press; be narrow; to be in distress; to be straitened (in straits).  The LORD God had to bring the “man” into the God “life” by bringing him through the “STRAIT GATE”!!

Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:  because he trusteth in thee.  The word “mind” here is from the same root word as “formed” in Genesis 2:7 (yetsar /yatsar), a form; conception (ie purpose): frame, thing framed; imagination, work.

The LORD God’s “forming” (making, constructing, building, molding, structuring) of the “man” (aw’dawm’) was started in his “MIND” (the head)!!  Glory to God!!!  He brought him (male & female) into the place of thinking with the mind of God!

The synonyms for MIND are:  consciousness, understanding; intellect; purpose; intention; opinion; will; desire.  The Adam people (male and female) became aware or had the understanding that they were God’s legal agents or representatives in the earth with His dominion, authority, and power flowing through them!!!

This is how God brings us into eternal life - through the “STRAIT GATE”!  Only a FEW are going to find this way by starting with the “head” (the thinker)!  We must be renewed in our “MIND”!  Romans 12:2 “Be not conformed to this world:  but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God”.

Between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, God had some “morning stars” singing!  The word “sang” is the root word ranan’, which is to emit a sound, in relation to a shout (usually for joy), praising God for who He is!  The word “morning” comes from the root word bo’ker, meaning dawn (as the break of day, early) as expelling of the night or dispelling of the darkness.  “Morning” also comes from another root word, baqar, meaning to plow (cultivate, dig, till, turn, break, furrow, agriculture), or break forth in relation to look into; give attention to; vision; admire; care for; inquire; seek; search out the things of the “ALMIGHTY GOD”! The word “stars” is from the root word kowkab’, meaning in the sense of rolling and blazing.  It also means to shine; a prince, a monarch, ruler, sovereign, noble (man), chief, authority, goodness. The synonyms for “roll” as a noun are to reverberate, echo, or thunder; the synonyms for “blaze” are fire, flame, or heat.

God also had some “sons of God” (builders of the family name) that “shouted” for joy!!  The word “shouted” is from the Hebrew word ru’wa meaning to mar (especially by breaking); to split the ear (with sound), in relation to shouting (for alarm or joy); triumph, smart, destroy.

To “mar” means to disfigure, deface, scratch, to impair; “smart” means stylish; sharp; keen; witty; sparkling; brisk; energetic; fresh; skilled.  These “sons of God” had taken on the face of God so that they could manifest God’s face in the earth!!

These were the people (morning stars and sons of God) who stepped out on the dawn of creation with the anointing of God – with the power, dominion, and authority of God ruling and reigning over the earth in the beginning.  They were repeating or saying (reverberating, echoing, thundering) what God was saying - be fruitful and multiply in the earth - even before “Adam”!

Job 38:4-7 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations [people] of the earth?  Declare, if thou hast understanding.  Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest?  Or who hath stretched the line upon it?  Where upon are the foundations thereof fastened?  Or who laid the cornerstone thereof; when the morning stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for joy?

But “Lucifer-ian-ism” set in!  An “ism” is a distinctive cause, doctrine, or theory; practice; process; a manner of behavior characteristic of a person or thing.  It was a system of principles put in place that moved God’s people out of their place of dominion, authority and power that He had placed them in!

Lucifer in Hebrew is “heylel”, meaning in the sense of brightness; morning star.  It also means “halal”, which is to be clear (originally of sound).  Why of “sound”?  Because he (they) were hearing and doing what God instructed!  John 10:2-5 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.  To him the porter openeth:  and the sheep hear his voice:  and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.  And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him:  for they know his voice:

Lucifer also means clear of color, such as those depicted in the “rainbow”, which is the manifestation of the characteristics of God:

(1) Red [understanding] that life comes to us through the blood of Jesus.  Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom:  and with all thy getting get understanding.  

(2) Orange [counsel]:  Revelation 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me, gold tried in the fire.

(3) Yellow [wisdom]:  James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him:

(4) Green [knowledge]:  Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge”.  [Mostly everything in the kingdom of vegetation is “green” which denotes “LIFE”.  So for us to live, we must “KNOW” something]!

(5) Blue [might]:  Colossians 1:10-11  That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.

(6) Purple [royalty; kingship; reverence of God]:  Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge:  but fools despise wisdom and instruction.  Revelation 5:10  And hast made us unto our God kings and priests:  and we shall reign on (over) the earth.  (Revelation 1:6)  And hast made us kings and priests unto God and his Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever.  

“Lucifer” also means to shine, make a show, to boast, be clamorously foolish, to rave, to celebrate, stultify, praise, be mad, rage, renown.

He (Lucifer) wasn’t some angel flying around with wings, but he was a “man” in a powerful place in God.  He got the “big head”, and God brought him down!  Isaiah 14:12-23; (Vs 12}  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!  How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!  Vs 16  Is this the “man” that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms.  This word “man” is iysh [enowsh - mortal – desperately wicked], which is what he (they) became when he (they) rebelled against God.  (Ezekiel 28:12-15); (Luke 10:18)  I saw Satan as lightning fall from heaven.  Satan or satanas’, is the accuser, the devil, the adversary or one who opposes God.

Between Genesis 1:1 & Genesis 1:2, there was “chaos” [disorder; confusion].  The man that was God’s legal agent in the earth had fallen.  These “legal agents” were the morning stars, and sons of God, and Lucifer was included!  But through pride, self-exaltation, and rebellion, they lost their position or place of power, dominion and authority in the creation!  At that time the Christ was put to sleep!  Then God Himself did some replenishing in the earth after it had become “without form” (no godliness); “void” (empty of God’s  power, dominion, authority, knowledge, wisdom, counsel, reverence); “darkness” (ignorance, destruction, misery, death, ruin) “was upon the face of the deep” (abyss); and the Spirit of God moved upon the “face of the waters” (the people) and said, “Let there be”!!!  (Genesis 1:3) God said, Let [allow; permit] there be!!  Here God was giving “permission” to what He had created in Genesis 1:1 to be restored, reestablished, or returned to its perfected state!!   God is SPIRIT (John 4:24), and we must understand Him with a spiritual mind (2 Corinthians 2:14).

Revelation 17:15  The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth [false church system – religion] are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.  Genesis 1:3  And God said, Let there be light [owr – luminaries – people with my mind in them], and it was so.  Genesis 1:24  And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature.  This was “man” (male and female), and God created them in His own image, after his likeness, and told them to have dominion over the earth; be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.  AND THEY DID!

This “Adam” was a body of people that God (defined in Hebrew) dyed red (colored, tinted, stained) with His own blood that he had taken out of the conglomerate of nations of people which he had brought forth out of the “earth” called “living creatures” (Genesis 1:24).  Ezekiel 1:5  Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures.  And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.  

God didn’t let the chaotic situation, even then, stop His plan!  And He isn’t letting anything stop His plan now!

This body of people (male & female) was God’s “legal representatives” in the earth that He had given dominion over the earth.  They had the “anointing” of God in them!  God had awakened the Christ that had fallen asleep in the beginning!  Now God can “rest” Genesis 2:2-3  And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.  And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:  because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.  “Rested” is from the root word shabath’ meaning to desist from exersion.  His “rest” was now within the “man” (male & female) that He called “LORD God”!  This “man” never fell!  The “man” that fell was the “man” (Adam) in Genesis 2:7 which the LORD God “formed” from the dust and breathed into his nostrils (not his mouth) the breath of life, and he (male & female) became a living soul.   But through disobedience, he (they) caused the Christ to be put back to sleep in the earth!  GOD HAS ALWAYS HAD A REMNANT!!

LORD is defined as Jehovah (the self -Existent or Eternal) God.  The word “self” is the complete and essential being of a person; personal interest.  LORD is from another Hebrew word “hayah”, which means to exist; be or become; come to pass; altogether; accomplished.  Then it goes to another root word meaning to breathe; “BE THOU”!  Did you get that!!!  Glory to God!!!  1 John 4:17  As he is so are we in this world.  Revelation 19:16  And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS!

They (the LORD God in Genesis 2) were in charge of the creation – doing the works that God (the Creator) was doing in Genesis 1.  Remember what Jesus said in John 14:12 He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do.  God hasn’t changed!  Jesus has always been!  Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever!

Genesis 2:4  These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

Those whom God had put in charge of the creation, the LORD God, is now taking that which is “earthy” and bringing it back into the “heavens”!   Especially the “man” (male and female)!  “Dust” in Hebrew is “aphar” which means powdered or gray; clay, earth, mud, rubbish, ground.  Gray is defined as more than just a “color”.  It means gloomy [dejected; sad; melancholy; dim; dark; obscure; pessimistic; rubbish], which is a state of “death”.  As the LORD God began to “make” (advance) the “man” (male & female), he moved them forward into a position of authority and power as he the LORD God Himself had been made and placed by GOD!!!

The word “made” is asah, meaning to wrought, deal, execute, keep, show, prepare, do, perform, dress, maintain, accomplish, advance, appoint, make apt (suitable, fit, appropriate, quick, skilled), become, bestow, bring forth, furnish, procure, provide, serve, use, set.  As God had qualified the LORD God, the LORD God qualified the “man” Adam (male & female) and put them in the position of authority and power to have dominion over everything that lived, moved, and crept upon the earth!

He qualified the “man” (male & female) by breathing into his (their) “nostrils”, not his mouth!  During CPR, you breathe into the person’s mouth, not the nose.  So He naphached or blew hard, kindled, ignited, set ablaze, stirred, aroused, in his “mind” discernment (discovery, understanding) of who he (Adam) himself really was.   He (they) caught a quick view or sight of what it would be like to be God’s representatives in the earth!  He (they) were God’s legal agents in the earth!!  So are we (the body of Christ) today God’s legal agents or representatives in the earth - those that get hold of the revelation of “THE CHRIST” (the anointed ones)!

The “man” (Adam) in Genesis 2:7 is called the “first man”!  1 Corinthians 15:45  The first man Adam was a living soul.  1 Corinthians 15:47  The first man is of the earth, earthy.  Why?  Genesis 2:4  These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.  These were the first that the LORD God put in charge of the creation!

Adam was male & female that the LORD God had rebuilt by first rebuilding their “mind” (yatsar).  The LORD God caused him (them) to think with the mind of God.  The very breath (naphach) or wind of God kindled or ignited a fire in them, which was the divine inspiration of God Himself, His Holy Presence! This wind or breath of GOD stimulated or generated within the “mind” of these people ideas, feelings, or impulses which led to creative action!  They became “living souls” or chay, meaning they came or were made alive, quickened, revived, nourished, repaired, restored (to life), made whole!  These souls, neshemah (breathing creatures) all came into oneness with the Creator God meaning their heart, body, life, desires, appetites all came into oneness with the Creator God!!  The LORD God had given them God’s life (chay), and they were made whole [unbroken; undivided; complete; pure; healthy]!  They had become one unit!  Christ’s body!  CHRIST HAS ALWAYS BEEN!!  Roman 12:4-5  For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.  1 Corinthians 12:12  For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body:  so also is CHRIST!

Adam in (Genesis 2:7) (male & female) had been AWAKENED to the CHRIST (christos’), the “anointing”!  They had become the “anointed ones” in the earth!

To be inspired is to be guided by a divine influence (the power to produce effects)!  Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.  Luke 4:18  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Back to Matthew 7:14 Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

This is why we must fulfill Ephesians 4:13  Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of CHRIST!  Vs 14  That we henceforth be no more children (ne’pios - infants, simpleminded; immature Christians; babes):  tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight [kubei’a –fraud; trickery] of men:  and cunning craftiness [slyness; guile; wile; deception], whereby they lie in wait to deceive.  

The book of Job and Proverbs makes this “wide gate” and “broad way” very clear:  Job 28:7  There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen.  We are not “fowls” or “vultures”, but we [Christ’s body] are “eagles”!  Luke 17:37  Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.  Proverbs 14:12 and 16:25  There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death!  BUT John 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I AM THE WAY, [not “A” way], the truth, and the life!  “THE” makes what Jesus said definitive, meaning, Jesus being “THE WAY” is final and conclusive!  It’s settled!!!

This “life” that Jesus is referring to is “ETERNAL and EVERLASTING” life!  Only a FEW are going to find (obtain or get it), and that’s the “CHOSEN FEW”!

1 Corinthians 15:22, In Adam all die, even so in Christ shall be made alive!

While Adam was walking in obedience to what the LORD God told him, he (male and female) had the devil under their feet!  But once they disobeyed God’s Word, the enemy came from under their feet and moved into the “air”!  Ephesians 2:2  The prince and power of the air.  “Air” is the Greek word aer, or “atmosphere”.  An “atmosphere” is a mood; aura; or environment of the mind!  At the point of “disobeying” the LORD God, Adam took on a different mood, which is a conscious state of mind or emotions!  They moved from “innocence” (free from sin, guilt, malice, or guile) to “conscience” (the ability to recognize right and wrong regarding one’s own behavior)!  They were now “conscious” (awakened to, aware) of what they had done.  They moved into a different awareness of their environment or surroundings, or a combination of external conditions which affects the development and existence of an individual, group, or organism!  They moved from life to death; from light to darkness; from love to hate; from knowledge to ignorance!  

But in CHRIST shall all be made ALIVE (zoopoie’o) or (re) vitalized; given life; quickened!  One can obtain “zoe”, which is “life” and “poie’o” which is “to make to live”.  This is what God has ordained for His people, “eternal life”!!!

Webster defines “LIFE” as the form of existence that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms or inanimate matter in the ability to carry on metabolism, respond to stimuli, to reproduce, and grow.  The synonyms for “life”:  (noun) vitality; existence; being; living; animation; vital force; respiration; breath (of life); vivification; resurgence:  (verb) be alive; walk the earth; give birth; put life into; revive:  (adjective) existing; in the flesh; in the land of the living; alive and kicking; germinal; invigorating; generative; exhilarating.

TO GET AND HAVE THIS ETERNAL AND EVERLASTING LIFE, IT IS ALL BY FAITH!!

• Hebrews 11:6”For without faith, it is impossible to please God:  For he that cometh to God, must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him”.
• John 17:3”And this is LIFE ETERNAL, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent”.
• 1 John 5:11-12 And this is the record that God gave of his Son, and this is the record, that God hath given to us ETERNAL LIFE, and this life is in his Son.  John 3:15-26:  Vs 16 That whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have EVERLASTING LIFE.  John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into EVERLASTING LIFE.  John 6:50-58:  (Vs 53) “Except you eat the flesh of the son of God and drink his blood, you have no life in you”.

Be amongst the “CHOSEN FEW” that enter in at the “STRAIT GATE” so that you may obtain the “ZOE LIFE” which is “eternal and everlasting” and which Jesus has given us through His death, burial, and resurrection!!!

~ Apostle Gracie Perry