Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries.

So let's pick up here again at verse 9.

Do you know of any parent who would give his hungry child who asked for food

a plate of rocks instead? Or when asked for a piece of fish, what parent would offer his child a snake

instead? If you, imperfect as you are, know how to lovingly take care of your children and give them

what's best. How much more ready is your heavenly father is your heavenly father how much more ready is your heavenly father to give wonderful gifts to those who ask him and everything you do be careful to treat others in the same way you'd want them to treat you.

For that is the essence of all the teaching of the law and the prophets.

Come to God through the narrow gate because the wide gate and broad path is the way that leads to destruction.

Nearly everyone chooses that crowded road.

Nearly everyone chooses that crowded road. The everyone chooses that crowded road.

The narrow gate and the difficult way leads to eternal life, so few even find it.

Now I'm going to read the last part of that as I did this morning out of the new King James.

So that'll be Matthew 7.

And I'm going to begin, I'm going to read read 12 13 and 14 of Matthew 7 out of the new

king James okay therefore whatever you want men to do to you do also to them for this

the law and the process is what we would call the golden rule okay matthew seven verse 12 therefore whatever you want men to do you do also to them this is the

this is the law and the prophets verse 13 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 by what the wide gate the broad gate because narrow

is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life and there are few who find it now

dr. Simmons there as I mentioned this morning uses eternal life that that's that's unnecessary

what you Yeshua paid to bring us into was his definition of life and life more abundantly.

A more abundant version of life is inclusive of the concept of life being eternal.

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