Women of Grace 2007/2008

The Sermon on the Mount: Being Women of the Kingdom
Homework for Lesson Twenty
The Narrow Gate

Memory Work: Matthew 7:13-14

1. Read Matthew 7:13-27.
(a) What different things are contrasted in these verses?

(b) What warnings does He give us in these verses?

2. (a) How is life through the narrow gate described in verses 13-14?

(b) How is life on the broad way described in these verses?

3. (a) From Jesus' teaching in the Sermon on the Mount, why are the narrow gate and narrow way difficult?

(b) Why do you think only a few find it?

4. (a) In order to enter the narrow gate, what must be left behind?
Acts 2:38-39

Ephesians 4:20-24

(b) What things of your old life have been left behind since you followed Christ?

5. (a) What does Jesus teach in the following verses about the difficulty of His way?
Matthew 10:34-39

Luke 9:57-62

Luke 14:25-33

(b) What difficulties have you experienced as you have followed Christ?

6. (a) What do the following verses teach about the path toward God?
John 10:7-9

John 14:6

Acts 4:12

(b) How does this differ from the tolerant religious thinking of our modern age?

7. How do you know that you are on the narrow way? How is your life different from the lives of those on the broad way? What changes has He worked in you since the beginning of this study?

8. Pray with your partner about someone you know is on the broad road leading to destruction. Be discreet, but pray that God would open his/her eyes to the narrow gate that leads to Him.