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.”
Even though we have not been in a while, we love to visit local State Parks and go hiking at least once in the Spring and once in the Fall. Most hiking trails are narrow; sometimes they are so narrow that only one person can fit on the trail while the other person walks in front or behind. We have even seen trails that were so narrow and concave from previous hikers that your feet could not fit walking side by side; only by putting one foot in front of the other could you get down the path. Good thing we use hiking sticks to help stabilize us on our hiking adventures.
This is what a born-again Christian’s life is like – a very Straight and Narrow Path, so narrow that you walk by Faith, letting Jesus lead, guide, and direct you with one foot in front of the other, one by one, one day at a time.
The Bible (God’s Word) is like our ‘hiking sticks’ to help stabilize us on our Journey; it helps us to put on the full armor of God. It is our sword of the spirit; it is our comfort and guide; it is everything we need to endure in this life!
Because those who are truly born-again are so few in number, the Narrow Path is a somewhat lonely path, and one that gets lonelier with each passing day. It is also a very difficult path to take, one that is rife with affliction, hardship, and rejection. Remember, Jesus promises He will never leave us or forsake us. He is with us every step of the way! Only those who truly love Christ will continue on this Journey with the indwelling Holy Spirit’s help. Many claim Christianity but deny Him by the way they live their lives. It is easy for one to give ‘lip service,’ but true believers show ‘genuine service’ by their submission and obedience to God’s Word.
To find oneself on this Narrow Path, one must deny ‘self and pick up their cross,’ whatever that may be (persecution, rejection, hardship, suffering, sickness, loss, and pain) and follow Jesus. Once again, Christ told us to ‘count the cost,’ which means it will not be easy and that only a few would find the Narrow Path that leads to Him.
Excerpt from Gotquestions.org: “Why did God make salvation such a narrow path?”
However, the gate to heaven is “narrow” in the sense of having a particular requirement for entrance—faith in Jesus Christ. Salvation is found only in the Person of Jesus Christ; He is the only way (John 14:6). The “wide” gate is non-exclusive; it allows for human effort and all other of the world’s religions.
Jesus says that the narrow gate leads to a “hard” road, one that will take us through hardships and difficult decisions. Following Jesus requires crucifying our flesh (Galatians 2:20; 5:24; Romans 6:2), living by faith (Romans 1:17; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Hebrews 10:38), enduring trials with Christlike patience (James 1:2–3, 12; 1 Peter 1:6), and living a lifestyle separate from the world (James 1:27; Romans 12:1–2). When faced with the choice between a narrow, bumpy road and a wide, paved highway, most of us choose the easier road. Human nature gravitates toward comfort and pleasure. When faced with the reality of denying themselves to follow Jesus, most people turn away (John 6:66). Jesus never sugar-coated the truth, and the truth is that not many people are willing to pay the price to follow Him.
Satan has paved the highway to hell with fleshly temptations, worldly attractions, and moral compromises. Most people allow their passions and desires to dictate the course of their lives. They choose temporary, earthly pleasure over the self-sacrifice required in following Jesus (Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23; Matthew 10:37). The narrow gate is ignored. Most people would rather create their own religions and design their own gods. So it was with sorrow, not discrimination, that Jesus declared that the road to eternal life is “narrow, and only a few find it.” – Source
Think about all of the people that were ever created, that ever lived and died, and that ever walked this Earth. To try and wrap one’s mind around this many souls is ‘mind boggling’ to say the least! Nonetheless, try to imagine them all as countless as the grains of sand on the seashore, basically an innumerable amount of people. Now, try to wrap your mind around the fact that most – and by most, I mean imagine a pie chart of like 90% of it compared to only like 10% of it – choose the Wide, Easy, Broad Way to Destruction!
Literally, that many souls choose to reject the Difficult, Straight, and Narrow Path to Eternal Life! It is beyond mortifying to envision that many souls unexpectedly falling off the cliff of the end of this Wide Road into (Eternal Torment) Hell on a daily, hourly, minute-by-minute basis!
How can one tell that someone is on the Wide Road to Destruction? Just look at their life: their words, thoughts, actions, and deeds. Are they living for Christ or are they living for ‘self’? Do they care about the things of God or do they care more about the things of the world? Do they live to obey God’s Word or do they live to please the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life? Do they live to tell others about Jesus or not? All of these things are ‘telltale signs’ whether someone is on the Wide Road to Destruction or on the Narrow Path to Eternal Life!
1 John 3:8-10 “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Excerpt from Neverthirsty.org: “Wide and Narrow Roads”
Throughout the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus has been describing external obedience. It is the proof that you are a real Christian. You might agree with the crowd in the following passage, but it will not be enough.
“When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at His teaching; for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their scribes” (Matthew 7:28-29, NASB).
God is looking for more. He is looking for your heart to say, “I believe in you. I yield myself to you. I give myself to you. I am ready to serve you. What shall I do?” Is this you?
If you say, “Yes,” you are on the narrow road. It is marked with trouble as you seek to do His will and live a holy life. If you do, you will be building your spiritual house on Jesus Christ, and this narrow road leads to God. – Source
For example, in order for a Diamond to be made, there has to be extreme circumstances that involve an enormous amount of heat and pressure, which ultimately emerges one of the hardest natural substances in nature! Diamonds are bright, shiny, dazzling, brilliant, and oh so beautiful to behold! In Heaven, the Bible says those who are truly born-again (those who find the Narrow Path to Eternal Life) will shine like the stars in the sky for ever and ever!
Daniel 12:3 “Those who are wise willshine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like thestars for ever and ever.”
Philippians 2:15-16 “That you may become blameless and pure, ‘children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.’ Then you willshine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.”
Matthew 13:43 “Then the righteous willshine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.”
***For what it is worth… just know that the Difficult, Straight, and Narrow Path to Eternal Life will definitely not be easy or even pleasant at times; but once we are on the other side and the veil is lifted, we will find that it was all more than well-worth every minute of it just to finally arrive and be in the Most Precious Radiant Presence of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!***
In these last days, Satan is raging against mankind. And where does he hit hardest? Against the most vulnerable – our children.
“Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones” (Luke 17:1-2).
The mainstream media spreads the idea that psychologists classify pedophilia as a sexual orientation and not a mental disorder, thereby creating room for debate about the possible acceptance of this ‘orientation.’
SOTT.net routinely exposes this great evil that is sweeping through and taking over much of the Western world and beyond:
To get a proper understanding of the direction our society is taking, we need look no further than the Netherlands, a country considered as a testing ground for exporting liberal and ‘progressive’ values. A country where, during the 60s, the normalisation of pedophilia almost became a reality.
“The sexual revolution of the 1960s would change our society forever. Free sex, emancipation of women and the acceptance of homosexuality took off. In the wake of the cultural change, a completely different group fought for the acceptance of their pernicious sexual preference: pedophiles.”
The following clip (in Dutch, with English subtitles; see transcript below the video) is a good example of the types of people who fight for the acceptance of pedophilia in society. In the video we see the very creepy Edward Brongersma, a Dutch politician and doctor of law at the time, telling the presenter that children crave sexual attention from adults, and how it is our duty, as grown-ups, to give them this ‘affection.’ In the clip we also get to hear pastor Alje Klamer, who says, “pedophiles opened my eyes.”
Video: Dutch politician attempting to make pedophilia acceptable
Politician: Thankfully, a large number of people are pedophiles, and that there is a pedophile in every human being. Actually every human being likes and loves children which is great for children, because children need affection. And there is a need for it to be expressed. This cannot only happen mentally. A child is very physically oriented and also needs that affection to be physically expressed. Well, there are hugs, kisses, touching. And you just have to look at the expression of the child when that happens. The lovely enriched expression that the child gets with that, which clearly shows that children need this.
Interviewer: We sometimes tell children: “You’re so cute, I just want to eat you up.”
Politician: Yes, yes, there is something about that expression that indicates the need to want to be physically united.
Interviewer: And they don’t mind.
Politician: And they don’t mind. Would all those children be so negatively affected by it? If this was so harmful, disgusting, or traumatizing – a term used in academic circles – for those children, well then, we would have to be living in a totally sick world. I’ve compared it to masturbation. That’s also something people believed was so bad for you.
Interviewer: [Negatively affecting] the spinal cord… the brain.
Politician: Brain,… they said your teeth would fall out, that everything would go wrong, and that you die at an early age in a terrible way. Since social studies have been conducted that have shown that it is a common, and normal, practice, we are now seeing that it is impossible for it to be so terribly wrong.
– The interviewer now turns to pastor Klamer –
Interviewer: Thank you…. To pastor Klamer, there is a taboo regarding this issue. You have contacts with pedophiles; was it always an open matter for you?
Pastor: No, the pedophiles have opened my eyes. Thanks to their stories, I have learned to think differently and listen to others differently.
Interviewer: How can a pastor stand up for pedophiles with his religious beliefs?
Pastor: Exactly because of that. Because faith is about love. And I think that if you’re talking about faith, you’re talking about the person from whom you’ve learned about faith, and that’s Jesus. And Jesus does nothing but create space for people who in those times were also shown in a bad light and described as dangerous and that they don’t belong with the others.
The message was clear: anyone who didn’t sexually interact with his or her own children is not a good parent. Sickening as this is, many people bought it.
The soft attitude towards pedophilia brought a lot of horrors with it. Child abuse scandals followed in rapid succession. Even to this day, the damage seems evident: official statistics claim that one in three Dutch childrenhas been sexually abused or exploited.
During the early 1990s, the emancipation of pedophilia was initially in shambles after networks had come to light that consisted of individuals kidnapping, torturing, raping, and killing children and infants, then selling or buying videos of the crimes for thousands to millions of euros. It was not the image the Dutch establishment had tried to paint of pedophiles – their selling point had been that pedophiles were ‘revolutionizing’ how we should ‘love’ our children.
At the time, these revelations appeared to sound the death knell for the acceptance of pedophilia. People finally began to realize that it was not about ‘love for children,’ as propagated by politicians, academics and the media – but about predators who get a kick out of tormenting children.
Even so, it was not until 1998 that the Dutch political party SGP tabled a motion to criminalize the possession of child pornography, and which was approved in the House of Representatives. And yet, almost all parties saw this as a violation of privacy. It was only around the end of the millennium that a political and cultural change took place whereby pedophilia was once again regarded as beyond the pale.
Nevertheless, the battle for acceptance of pedophilia has never ceased. Indeed, recent developments show that the acceptance of pedophilia is resurgent and making considerable progress all over the Western world.
Pedophile Empire
Today, the campaign to make pedophilia a normal ‘sexual orientation’ has a new cover: the ‘gender revolution.’ Interestingly enough, the concept of a wide array of gender identitiescame from a pedophile and human experimenter, which puts a very different brush on liberal ‘progressivism’ as a vehicle for positive change in Western societies.
Authorities and the media are blurring the lines between what is male and female to the extent that children – whose brains are not fully developed – are encouraged in schools to not conform to male or female ‘stereotypes’ and instead to “choose their own gender.” New pronouns to address the “new genders” correctly are even enforced through law.
The following video is from a project aimed at pre-school kids to explain LGBT+ themes. It also features a bearded demon-looking drag queen telling children how he “loves to push the boundaries of gender.” Teddy the “talking bear” ends the show telling the viewer how cool it is to be in drag.
Children are also regularly depicted as sex symbols all over the media: See here, here and the following picture where 13-year-old Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown is depicted one of the “sexiest TV Stars” by W Magazine.
The “Lifestyle” editor of the United Kingdom-based news outlet Metro recently published a hideous op-ed column chastising parents who don’t sexualize their children at a young age, and encouraged parents to buy sex toys for their kids. Meanwhile, the British morning chat show This Morningthought it would be edifying for the British public to show three little girls pole-dancing, and have a guest proclaim that “it’s really just about fitness.”
Psychologists in Canada made headlines in 2011 when they told the Canadian parliament that pedophilia is a “sexual orientation” comparable to homosexuality or heterosexuality. The following video shows that sympathy for pedophiles is one of the ’causes’ of radical leftists (Antifa), who can frequently be seen carrying signs stating “No Pedo-Bashing.”
In the aftermath of the Jimmy Savile scandal in the UK, the Guardianpublished a feature article with the disturbing claim that there is “not even a full academic consensus on whether consensual paedophilic relations necessarily cause harm.”The New York Times also published an article saying pedophilia shouldn’t be a crime. While downplaying the horrors of pedophilia in this way, the MSM also depicts pedophiles as victims of their “sexual orientation” rather than the predators they are. While this may be true for some people with severe psychological disorders, it has already been shown that such claims are used as an excuse by inveterate pedophiles and child abusers.
Robert M, a Dutch pedophile known for having raped 87 children between 2007 and 2010, told a Dutch court that his ‘sexual orientation’ is a “curse” and he simply failed to control his impulses. Yet, according to contacts who knew him via the internet, M. was also very proud of the images he made, and he frequently boasted about them. “What he did was very extreme. He did not care if the children cried,” one contact said.
All of the above are not exceptions: the push to normalize pedophilia is becoming more evident by the day.
So how does “gender revolution” tie into the normalization of pedophilia? We find a clue from the leading academics and advocates of “gender theory” in the Netherlands. One of them is Gert Hekma, a strong supporter of legalizing pedophila, who provides an insight into his disturbing thought processes in the following interview (the full article can be found here).
Gert Hekma: […] There is the idea that if it is about sex, no pressure may happen. That is the big problem with pedophilia, because this involves unequal balances of power, and these men, they force sex on boys who don’t want it. As for Sade, it is like you need to be forced a bit to learn what you like. We accept this in many, many areas. You are forced to go to school. You are forced as a child to eat your food. You are forced to poo and pee neatly at certain times. The child is being forced endlessly, but when it comes to sex, it suddenly is not allowed anymore. Sade indicates: With a little pressure you learn how nice sex is.
Interviewer: You could say that a tiny bit of pressure is permitted, but you could also say that the pressure in all these other areas might be far less compulsory.
Gert Hekma: You could argue about that. I think you should force children. Children are boring creatures as well, whom you need to put on a right track one given moment. And this goes for sex too. […]
Interviewer: Do you yourself still look with erotic interest at a boy or maybe a girl who is not sixteen yet?
Gert Hekma: Well, that is inevitable. If you don’t do that, you are crazy.
Interviewer: Would you be in favour of an age of consent in relation to sexual contacts or do you think the relationship itself always has to be considered?
Gert Hekma: I would be much more in favour of the latter, of course. That is the Russian system of the twenties. But it did not amount to anything, because it was a dictatorship. So, when it was convenient, you were persecuted anyway, but it worked well that way. Minister Visser also said that any age of consent is rather arbitrary. You can say at twelve, but there are also children who are ready to have sex at ten or at six. […]
Later during the interview, Hekma said: “We are dealing with kids who are being confronted with sex, they discover their own sex preferences earlier, etc., so, as a society you should do something with that.”
So, while preaching freedom for children through ‘gender revolution,’ the media pushes for hypersexualisation of youth. They are creating a generation of brainwashed kids who, after being exposed to so much pro-sex material from an early age, will end up thinking that they want sex.
Make no mistake about it; the push for pedophilia is happening under the guise of liberal policies such as the ‘gender revolution.’
Social evils like the pro-pedophile campaign can be portrayed as mere storms in teacups, crazy ideas supported only by tiny crazy minorities. Yet the case I have made here suggests that this is a serious issue confronting all of society. Those who turn a blind eye to it risk allowing it to gain momentum to the point where we may wake up one day to find pedophilia is a legally-protected ‘normal’ sexual orientation.
In Western nations, laws that favor the normalization of pedophilia are being tabled and approved almost every day, division is being fomented, hatred encouraged, families destroyed, and children’s lives ruined from an early age. Anyone who does not accept this radical leftist ideology is labeled a sexist, racist, ‘Nazi,’ homophobic. Through the widespread acceptance of the ‘crime’ of ‘discrimination,’ anyone who disagrees with this ideology is silenced in one way or another.
Putin, Lone Voice of Conscience Against the Pedophile Elite
Awareness of pedophilia in very high places in modern Western society has been growing for several decades. Power attracts psychopaths, psychopaths molest children, and they know that they can only get away with it if they acquire positions of power. This combination of top-down ponerization and the increasing power of politicians is the reason why pedophilia prevails at the top. The fact that pedophile politicians are easily blackmailed is another factor.
Unsurprisingly, pedophilia appears to be widespread in the cesspool that is Washington DC. According to ex-congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, if the facts ever came to light about the DC pedophila networks, it would bring down both the Democrat and Republican parties. See also this short audio fragment in which the former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, talks about the role MI5 (‘security service’ of the UK) plays in pedophile networks in the UK.
Wherever you see the establishment media taking a pro-pedophilia stance (which is pretty much evident throughout the Western world), you can be fairly sure that the country in question is run by a group of psychopaths or otherwise seriously character-disturbed individuals.
Vladimir Putin seems to be the only major world leader who understands this threat and who has publicly spoken out in an effort to protect his people and society. According to the Russian president, Western elites have created a culture of “excessive, exaggerated political correctness” that is so destructive it will lead to the downfall of Western civilization if it is not arrested.
Putin accusing western nations of promoting the propaganda of pedophilia:
“The excesses and exaggerations of political correctness in these countries indeed leads to serious consideration for the legitimization of parties that promote the propaganda of pedophilia.” […]
And these countries try to force this model onto other countries, globally. I am deeply convinced that this is a direct way to the degradation and primitivization of culture. This leads to a deeper demographic and moral crisis in the West. (Source)
The Russian President also made clear during a media interview that Russia would never accept pedophilia, unlike Western European nations and the USA. “Russian people would sooner take up arms,” he said.
While a normally functioning person sees the actions of pedophiles for what they are – disgusting and traumatizing (for the children, not for the predators) – psychopaths in power strive to make every lifestyle, no matter how abhorrent or barbaric, acceptable. Thus, they (de)form humanity in their own deviant image.
Pedophilia will continue to thrive as long as people remain unaware of the existence of those who are genetically incapable of empathy and who can reach high positions of power through their natural cunning and deceit. They will rob us of our humanity, conscience and soul unless we take a stand as a society. Source
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12).
Brethren, think about this. The president of Russia, Vlad Putin, understands the depravity of pedophilia, but many countries are pushing this as “normal behavior”!
The Bible tells us that in the end times, good will become evil and evil good:
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20).
The world is getting darker and darker. We must pray and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the lost. We must pray for the children of the world. We must be their voice.
Should it really surprise us that a world in which abortion has become the norm, should also see pedophilia as normal?
“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold” (Matthew 24:12).
We MUST remember that we belong to the Lord and He will NEVER leave us nor forsake us! We are SO blessed!
