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Gina:
p.s.  I love Ray's reply!! ;D ;D ;D

Cypress:
Thanks Kat!

Kat:

Hi Gena,

Yes Gena I think you could saying the Elect/few are at the narrow gate while in this life and being prepared to enter. The gate/door is Jesus Christ too.

John 10:7  Then Jesus said to them again, Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

But we can not actually enter the gate while we are still in the flesh, we have the earnest/promise now, until He returns.

John 3:3  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Eph 1:13  In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
v. 14  who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

Here is a couple emails.

http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,7390.0.html ------------

Math. 4:17

                    Because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (KJ)

    Is this, perhaps, pertaining to the saved before the rapture??

    Your help would be greatly appreciated in this department.

     Thank you, and God bless Ray!!
     GOD'S DNA


    Dear DNA:  That would rather be Matt. 7:13-14--Mat 7:13 "Enter through the cramped gate, for broad is the gate and spacious is the way which is leading away into destruction, and many are those entering through it.  Yet what a cramped gate and narrowed way is the one leading away into life, and few are those who are finding it."

    I quoted it from the Concordant Literal New Testament so as to get the tense proper. Notice that it is the broad way that the many "are entering."  This is still going on, and it is through the narrowed way that "few are finding." This is nothing more than Jesus' statement that "many are called but few are chosen." But this pertains to this life only. In Judgment all will be judged as God's "House of God" is BEING judged NOW (See I Pet.4:17; I Cor. 11:31-32, etc.).


http://www.forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,2619.0.html ----------------

The Spirit of Christ is eternal, and when we have the Spirit of Christ we have eternal life in us. But....BUT,
we have only the "earnest" of that spirit, and it will not keep our physical bodies from dying. But when we have the earnest of God's spirit, it is proof that there is more to come:  "In Whom you also trusted after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in Whom also after that you believed, you were SEALED WITH THAT HOLY SPIRIT OF PROMISE.  Which is the EARNEST of our inheritance UNTIL [not now; not yet, but later] the redemption of the purchased POSSESSION, unto the praise of His glory" (Eph. 1:13-14).
 
And that takes place at the resurrection of the saints at the last trump. One more point: although we are promised "eonian" life, nonethless, the spirit that gives us "immortality," IS ETERNAL.
 
God be with you,
Ray

Gina:
Beautiful!  Thank you, Kat.

Gina

Gina:
Sorry, I just have all these questions now, and I'm not expecting you or me to know the answers, but I thought maybe we could just have a discussion.

Since Jesus is the gate/door, and the elect can only have access to the Father by going through that door (see John 14:6), wouldn't that mean that the elect do not have access to the Father this side of the resurrection?  I'm not talking about being completely saved (made "healthy/whole") in this life/this side of death -- I know that's not possible.

John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

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