"Closing the Wrong Doors" • Friday Service

"Closing the Wrong Doors" • Friday Service

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Tonight we gather in the presence of the Lord today to address a critical aspect of our walk with Christ—closing the wrong doors.

1. Revelation 3:7-8 (NKJV):

"‘And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, ‘These things says He who is holy, He who is true, “He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”: I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name.’”

2. 2 Timothy 2:22 (NKJV):

"Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart."

3. James 4:7 (NKJV):

"Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

4. Ephesians 4:27 (NKJV):

"nor give place to the devil."

5. Matthew 7:13-14 (NKJV):

"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."

Closing the wrong doors means consciously choosing the narrow gate, despite its difficulty and the fewer numbers who choose it. The theological depth here is immense; our salvation and sanctification are worked out as we choose, again and again, the narrow way of Christ over the broad ways of the world.