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Parable of the Narrow Door - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The goal is the door, In greek language “Door” means “Thyra”--> “Door, a passage for entering structure, entrance, doorway, gate.”
      - In this case, it is probably the door to a house or courtyard that is in mind
      - There is no indication that the latecomers can see the host, but are probably talking through a solid door
  - - - There is one last point to this parable, found in the word with which Jesus introduces His answer to the original question.
      - The Greek word agōnizomai, from which we get our word “agonize.”
      - It means to “strive” or to “make every effort” (NIV). By this word Jesus tells us that there is something for us to do in the matter of salvation and that we must make it our supreme business to do it.
- - - - The tree of knowledge in the garden in Eden was recognized as “pleasant to the sight, good for food and to be desired to make one wise”. Gen 3:6
        Eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was prohibited.
  - - - We turn away from the word of the Lord that we do understand
        We do not read it, we do not love it, we have become almost incapable of meditating upon it.
    - - Prayer has become the hardest thing in the world for us to do.
- - - - “Once in grace, always in grace“
      - “If you have it, you never lose it; if you lose it, you never had it”
      - Perseverance is what we do, Preservation is what God does. We persevere because God preserves
    - - 1 John 5:11 “This is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his son”
        He didn’t give us temporary life. He gave us eternal life
    - - “Those whom he predestined he also called, those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified“
      - All the called with nobody dropping out are justified and all the justified with nobody dropping out are glorified
      - No Drop Out In Salvation
      - For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified
        Hebrew 10:14
      - The ground for our confidence in perseverance is the power of God
        
        God promises to finish what he starts
        
        Our confidence does not rest in the will of man
        
        If God can preserves us in heaven without destroying our free will, he can preserve us on earth without destroying our free will.
      - Salvation is not Vaccination
        
        Once you get the flu shot, is automatic you get the immune system
        
        Salvation, it is more like you entering the lifetime therapy
        Jesus says like this “You are my patient, You will do what I say, and I will get you to the end, whole in the last day”
      - We are able to persevere only because God works within us, with our free wills.
        
        And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere.
        
        The decrees of God concerning election are immutable
        
        None of the elect is ever lost
      - True Christians can fall seriously and radically
        
        They can fall Seriously and Radically
        
        But not Totally and Finally
      - The image of father holding onto his small Child’s hand as they walk together.
        The safety of the child rests in the strength of the father’s grip of the child. If the child’s grip fails, the father’s grip holds firm. The arm of the Lord does not wax short.