The Narrow Road Underground

Men are you afraid of failure? Most are, and failure is part of learning. In spite of failure, learning the core ingredients for successful fatherhood is an absolute must for the sake of your children. Randy shares lessons that must be learned from the life of King David in the Old Testament of the Bible. God's wisdom will bring great success to you and your family.

The things and opportunities of this world can divert you from your eternal purpose. Will you prove your faith and follow the Lord Jesus?

Our creator is a being of uncomparable knowledge, power, and character. His overwhelming energy and presence is the only way our vast, huge universe could be made. The power, matter and form were blasted into existence by the spoken voice of a monstrous, all powerful person who says His name is "I AM".

The ever present God exists and His presence is so powerful and different that man cannot live in His realm anymore than we could live in the sun. He created us to share His life with us and wants us to be transformed forever to be His people.

The Bible tells the truth about the horrible acts of ancient men. It reveals our creator owes us nothing, He gave us life and place to live. But He loves us and made us to be like Him, not like the animals or His enemy.

God will restore His creation one day, and the Bible reveals this amazing story from God's perspective.

To this day in Israel it is common for contractors, archaeologists, and even people of everyday life to trip over proof that the Bible is historically accurate. Unbelievers from the past have even been so obsessed to prove God wrong, that they travelled to Israel, or chased ancient manuscripts across Europe and the Middle East, but gave up in surprise and followed Jesus.

When you are honest and open to investigate, instead of parroting others statements, you will intellectual be honest enough and find the truth. Half hearted seekers are satisfied with insufficent information and half truths. Those who dare to face truth, follow the evidence to wherever it really leads, and meet God.

This is only one avenue to help you meet God because you meet God the same way you meet any person. God promises you only this, "And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13

Because God loves mankind, in spite of their rebellion and unbelief, He reveals Himself in the same way we reveal ourselves to people. We realize someone exists when we meet them for the first time, or someone we know tells us about them.

I knew I was a grandfather because my sons told me before I ever met the kids. Then I met them and loved them even more.

God met people in the past, and they wrote a record so we could know God too. He told some of them things that would happen in the future so that we would believe and seek to know Him.

Don't miss out on knowing God and the Bible is His carefully written and preserved message to us.

Randy takes us through Psalm 91 and illustrates from recent history that the God of heaven is not silent, nor powerless to act supernaturally in our world today. Yes the Bible records the history of the living God and tells us of amazing events that happened many years ago.

But, these events can either enlarge your faith to understand the amazing power of God, or even better, force you to seek God with all your strength and serve Him.

Randy spoke these words February 3, 1991 at Covenant Fellowship Church, Stuart, FL.

"There is no one righteous, not even one.  There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away; all alike have become useless. There is no one who does what is good, not even one. 

Their throat is an open grave; they deceive with their tongues. Vipers' venom is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and wretchedness are in their paths, and the path of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God's judgment. For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin ⌊comes⌋ through the law. [Romans 3:10-20 (HCSB)] "Not everyone who calls out to me, 'Lord! Lord!' will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. 22 On judgment day many will say to me, 'Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.'23 But I will reply, 'I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God's laws.'

"Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won't collapse because it is built on bedrock. But anyone who hears my teaching and ignores it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand.27 When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash."[Matt 7:21-27 (NLT)] For more answers go straight to the Book, the Bible. Thank you for listening to Straight Talk for Narrow Road Followers of Jesus. If these messages have been a help to you, please pass them on to others through email, facebook and twitter.

"Who says I need to be a part of a church?" "My truth is for me, your truth is for you." "God understands me just the way I am." Do you rally think you can have a relationship with God on your terms?  For more answers go straight to the Book, the Bible. Thank you for listening to Straight Talk for Narrow Road Followers of Jesus. If these messages have been a help to you, please pass them on to others through email, facebook and twitter.

"Don't misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose. 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not even the smallest detail of God's law will disappear until its purpose is achieved. 19 So if you ignore the least commandment and teach others to do the same, you will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But anyone who obeys God's laws and teaches them will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven."(Matthew 5:17-19 NLB) Well, Jude says, "ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into lawlessness"contradict (deny or disown) Jesus and put words in His mouth. Grace is not a license to ignore God's written commands!"For certain men have crept in stealthily [gaining entrance secretly by a side door]. Their doom was predicted long ago, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into lawlessness and wantonness and immorality, and disown and deny our sole Master and Lord, Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)." [Jude 1:4 AMP]In the first generation of the church, repentance and the grace of God were already attacked and distorted by false teachers. Remember, our Lord warned us "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing..." [Matt 7:15 (NKJV)]  For more answers go straight to the Book, the Bible. Thank you for listening to Straight Talk for Narrow Road Followers of Jesus. If these messages have been a help to you, please pass them on to others through email, facebook and twitter.

Two primary doctrines that cannot be bent, ignored, or twisted without destroying your eternal hope is REPENTANCE and GRACE. Christ warned repeatedly not to be deceived, and spelled out clearly how to be protected from such satanic lies and confusion. Today both these truths are buried under the lies of false preachers and teachers, and the church is full of corrupted members claiming religious freedom to live their lives without the burden of God's rules. We are in troubling times!

Christ's first series of messages were completely based on repentance. By repeatedly preaching "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" [Matt 4:17 (NKJV)] the Lord gathered followers. The full force of His call was to everyone to "change your mind for the better, heartily amend your ways, with abhorrence of your past sins" (AMP). After gathering disciples he shifted to explaining the full weight of what this life of repentance meant. We call it the Sermon on the Mount, and Christ finished His truth with extreme warnings of great deception about this life of repentance.

Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and spacious and broad is the way that leads away to destruction, and many are those who are entering through it. 14 But the gate is narrow (contracted  by pressure) and the way is straitened and compressed that leads away to life, and few are those who find it. [Matt 7:13-14 (AMP)]

 For more answers go straight to the Book, the Bible. Thank you for listening to Straight Talk for Narrow Road Followers of Jesus. If these messages have been a help to you, please pass them on to others through email, facebook and twitter.