Lesson 02
God’s Warning

Christ, who is all knowing

Christ tells us
Many people are going to be lost, but only few are going to be saved.

Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."

Now this gets my attention.
According to the Bible the majority of people will be lost. We must take this warning from God at face value.

There are only two roads to eternity and we are on one or the other.
According to what the Lord says, only few will make it to heaven, but the vast majority will be lost in eternal punishment. This is both frightening and sad. I don’t consider myself selfish, but I certainly want to be among the few who are saved, don’t you? We make the choice ourselves as to where we will spend eternity. We are free moral agents. This is how we differ from the animals. We have been made in the image of God.

Genesis 1:26, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."

Genesis 2:7, "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

Yes, we are a living soul that will live forever.

God does not want you to be lost

God does not want anyone to be lost, but the choice is ours.

II Peter 3:9 "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."

God does not want us to go into eternal punishment. He is not going to force us to serve him, otherwise we would be mere robots.

I Timothy 2:3-4 "For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth."

It is God’s will that all be saved, but we know that is not going to happen. We have already seen that only few are going to be saved and the majority are going to be lost.

Also, as the verse says, before we can be saved, we must "come to the knowledge of the truth.

John 8:31-32,
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

What is the truth that will make us free?

The word of God is the truth that will make us free so that we can go to heaven.

John 17:17 "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."