Heb 11:25-26 CHAPTER 72 - The Faith of Moses
The way to Heaven is a "narrow" one and the entrance to it is "strait," and
few there be that find it (Matthew 7:13,
14). Because that way is "narrow," opposed to all the inclinations of
flesh and blood, Christ bids us to "sit down and count the cost" (Luke 14:31) before
we start out. The "cost" is far too high for all who have never had a miracle of
grace wrought within them, for it includes the cutting off of a right hand and
the plucking out of a right eye (Matthew 5:29,
30)--that is why 1 Peter 4:18 asks,
"If the righteous scarcely be saved (or "with difficulty be
saved") where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear"! Few indeed are, like
Moses, willing to pay the "cost." Alas, the vast majority, even in Christendom,
are like Esau (Heb. 12:16) or
the Gadarenes (Mark 5:14, 15)
—they prefer to indulge the flesh rather than deny it.
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