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Before we dig into our text today, let me remind you of the context… I want to give you a short review of what we studied last week.
Luke 13:24 “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
Why would Jesus mention striving? What’s the striving all about? How could anyone want to enter in and yet not be able to enter in? Is Jesus trying to make salvation so complicated that only a few can understand it? Is God trying to hide salvation from the masses? Doesn’t this passage make salvation seem very, very difficult, and if so, isn’t this contrary to everything you have heard about salvation? Who is right, and how are we going to reconcile the differences between what Jesus is teaching in this passage and what the prevailing notion of the day is?
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Years ago, before Korea was divided, a theology professor
from Yale visited a mission in northern Korea. He wanted to
preach in a country church, so the mission sent him with a missionary interpreter to a rural Korean village. The professor began his sermon, “All thought is divided into two categories, the concrete and the abstract.”
The Korean interpreter looked at the tiny congregation sitting
with eager attention on the floor of the little church…toothless grandmothers, barefoot schoolboys…and made a quick decision. “Dear friends,” he translated, “I have come all the way from America to tell you about the Lord Jesus Christ.” From that point on, the sermon was firmly in the interpreter’s hands. (Christianity Today, 11/14/94]).
