The Path Upward

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

2. The Path Upward is Not left Up to you alone

James 4:7–8 ESV

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Stairs vs Escalators

Psalm 40:1–2 NIV

I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.

3. The Path Upward is Not left Up to man

Psalm 75:6–7 KJV 1900

For promotion cometh neither from the east, Nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and setteth up another.

4. The Path Upward was started by Jesus

Trailblazer: a pioneer; an innovator: a person who makes a new track through wild country.

Forerunner: a person or thing that precedes the coming or development of someone or something else

John 12:31–33 ESV

Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” He said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die.

John 11:25–26 ESV

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

Summary: With Jesus, In Jesus, and Through Jesus The Path is always Upward!

The Path Upward

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