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My pastor has mention this passage a least a couple of times since I have been going:

Matthew 7:13-14 (NKJV) “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Notice Jesus says, “there are few who find it“. Not many, few.

Listening to a lecture on Revelation chapters 1 through 3 and one particular passage caught my eye:

Revelation 3:4 (NKJV) You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy.

Again, Jesus says, “You have a few names…”. Again, not many but few.

I know that churches love to equate themselves to the church in Philadelphia. However, I challenge to each of us to tap the brakes just a bit. Maybe we are the church in Sardis. Maybe there are just many of us who are still producing bad fruit in one way or another. I know I was for 30 years. Sometimes I sit and be stunned on how in the world I thought I was saved and yet my heart was not changed whatsoever.

I wonder how many more people are just like me.

I challenge to go back to the each of the letters to each of the churches in chapter 3 and compare the church in America and throughout the world to those churches but compare our hearts as well.