Jump right into: Meeting the Hosts, as Keith and Nathan talk about what they’ve been up to since the beginning of the year.

Going on a ski trip with blind people, and our new project that we hope to turn into an audio drama… Dangerous Christian. A serial about a modern day super hero of sorts. No tights, capes, or masks involved, just a regular guy who helps people in need.

Ee may not have lots of academic credentials in what the bible is all about, but it doesn’t take a lot of learning, or life experience to know what God wants and expects from us. If even a child can do it, so can you. After recently talking about the gospel, and what it really is, then about sin and repentance, we turn to what to do next.

After our Main Topic, we spend a moment to touch base with our Bible Timeline segment. Today, it’s a little on the reliability of the sources that translations are built on, and why that is important. Documenting the family tree of those preserved texts can prove that just because a manuscript is older, the newer scrolls may still be more reliable when their family tree of preservation can be documented.

Main Topic

Choices

* Every person faces an important choice regarding his or her eternal destiny.

* MATTHEW 7:13-27

While many choices don’t result in severe consequences, some choices matter greatly. Regarding Jesus, how we choose will determine our eternal destiny and the life we will experience.

Jesus used a series of 3 illustrations to describe alternative choices to following Him and the resulting consequences.

NARROW VERSUS WIDE? (MATT. 7:13-14 HCSB)

13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it.

14 How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.

Where does the alternative paths lead? The broad road? The narrow road?

The wide gate and broad path leads to destruction. The narrow gate includes a difficult road, but it leads to abundant and eternal life.

* Why is it important to consider the end while persevering during the journey?

GOOD VERSUS BAD? (MATT. 7:15-21 HCSB)

Listen for how to recognize a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

15 Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravaging wolves. 16 You’ll recognize them by their fruit. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles?

17 In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit. 18 A good tree can’t produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit.

19 Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 So you’ll recognize them by their fruit.

21 Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of My Father in heaven.

* What is the responsibility of believers when they observe others producing fruit contrary to what the Bible expects of Christians?

* How do your Christian leaders lives show the genuine fruit of obedience?

God knows who the pretenders are. True believers still sin, but they also genuinely try to become more like Him—The inner change that Christ brings is demonstrated through outward conduct. Outward conduct is not a path to salvation but a proof of salvation.

ROCK VERSUS SAND? (MATT. 7:24-27 HCSB)

24 Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on the rock.

26 But everyone who hears these words of Mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built ...