Title: Narrow Gate
“Enter through the narrow gate, which leads to destruction.
The gate is wide and the road is wide, and many go in through it..."
The narrow gate... is the path of hardship. This path is the path I voluntarily take.
Rejecting the wide road, this rough and narrow road,
It was chosen because when you reach the end of this road, the door to heaven will appear.
This door is... Jesus. The Lord says that I am the gate of the sheep. {John 10:7}
Christianity is not a religion of blessing, but a religion of suffering.
The blessings spoken of in the Bible are ultimately 'blessings of the soul,' rather than in the physical sense.
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. {Matthew 5:3}
Of course, it is true that the physical corridor is part of it.
However, our life on this earth is the beginning of an eternal heaven that one thousand years will pass one day...
Anyone who knows this secret will see the vain
Wouldn't you be willing to go 'the narrow way' for the reward of heaven without clinging to it?
I hope you will become wise believers who give their most precious things to the Lord.
A hundred and twenty years ago... in the United States, young people were guaranteed to come from a wealthy family from a prestigious university.
I gave up on my future and brought the Gospel to the barbaric land of Korea that was poor and tied to idols.
They sacrificed and shed the blood of martyrdom for the souls who were not saved in this country.
Next is the cemetery where foreign missionaries are buried in Yanghwajin.
It was engraved on the tombstone of a missionary who was martyred at the young age of 26 at the time.
“If I had a thousand lives, I would give them all to Korea.” {Ruby Kendrick}
Indeed, what made this young missionary sacrifice his life to go down the 'narrow road...' suffering.
It is that all mankind have the heart of the Lord, that all mankind are the people of heaven in faith and faith,
Because of this, he was able to leave his parents and relatives hometown and come to Korea, two hundred thousand miles away, to dedicate his youth.
In addition, Underwood, Appenseller, Mappett, and many other missionaries in the East for the sake of Korea, a small country.
Through devotion and sacrifice, our country will be freed from poverty and idolatry, which has been afflicted in just a century.
Politics, economics, education, medical care... receive God's blessing in every way
Now, in order to spread the gospel to the souls of unreached peoples in many countries around the world, many of the Lord's children are
As they did for us
It means that he has given up his comfortable life and devoted himself as a missionary by following the 'narrow road...'.
Also, in this last time, Korea
Our ancestors of faith had sacrifices until they were used as instruments for the gospel of God.
Even in the harsh slave life of the Japanese Empire, they refused to visit their shrines and kept their faith.
By sprinkling the blood of martyrdom on this land, you have left a wonderful legacy of faith to your descendants.
Through loyalty and sacrifice to the ancestors of the 'narrow path...' faith
Just as God delivered the nation of Israel out of Egypt, so
He liberates us from the oppression of Japan and uses it as a precious tool to spread the gospel to the whole world.
A missionary goes to the mission field by 'risking life'.
Many missionaries in Korea were martyred while preaching the gospel of the Lord there.
Sometimes we lose our beloved wife, and sometimes we feel the sorrow of sending our children to heaven first.
Even now, several times a year, people get malaria and live and die.
Missionaries to the indigenous Filipino area who carry out their mission while overcoming obstacles...
While working together in Russia, I lost my husband to heaven due to an illness and was left alone.
A wife with gray hair, who is spending the rest of her life caring for the Goryeo people in that area...
Why do these people leave the peace of their bodies behind and go down the narrow path?
That's right. Because they found their 'treasures of heaven..' hidden in the fields,
They are wise people who have things that will disappear after a while on this earth and gain eternal things.
Therefore, today as well, giving your life to preach the gospel and walking the narrow path is
Because at the end of that road... there is a 'gate of eternal life' that enters the splendid city of Zion in the New Jerusalem. Hallelujah!
“The wise will shine like the light of the firmament.
He who turns many back into righteousness will shine like the stars forever." {Dan. 12:3}