Imagine standing at a crossroads. Before you are two gates. One gate is wide and inviting, leading to a broad, easy road filled with crowds of people. The other gate is small and almost hidden, leading to a narrow and difficult path, traveled by only a few people. Which would you choose? Jesus spoke about these gates in Matthew 7:13-14, "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." 1. The Wide Gate, the Broad Road, the Fatal Destiny Our Lord's solemn warning here shatters all illusions of neutrality. Every soul is on one of two roads. The wide gate and broad road, represent the way of the world. This path is easy, accommodating, and popular. It is a path where we can hold onto our sins, and ignore the demands of Jesus. It allows for pride, selfishness, ease, indulgence, comfort, compromise, lust, and worldliness. There are no demands to take up our cross and follow Jesus, and no requirements to swim against the tide of sinful culture. It accommodates every fleshly desire, every prideful ambition, and every worldly philosophy. There are no boundaries to restrain the lusts of the heart. And tragically, it is crowded. "MANY enter through it." Religious hypocrites walk here. So do those who scoff at truth, those who presume that they are saved by their infant baptism, or a passing profession of faith, and those who never pause to consider eternity. This road may glitter with pleasures and success, but it leads to the blackness of darkness forever. "There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the