Few Will Achieve Salvation

 Verses
 "Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?" Luke 13:23

•  "Many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. " Luke 13:24
• "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!"  Mark 10
• "But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." Matt 7:14
• "For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it."  Matt 7: 13
• " I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. " John 10:9

Theme
Jesus makes it clear in all of the gospels that it is difficult to be saved.   Only those who enter through Him will be able to. And that number will be small.

Comment
It might be a good idea to learn what the concept of "entering through Jesus" really means.

Connect To and Depend On Jesus For Life

Theme
We need to connect to and pull spiritual nourishment from Jesus to sustain the divine life planted in our hearts.

Comment
Like a baby nursing from its mother's breast, we depend on Jesus to provide us with spiritual nourishment. Another example is the branches of a vine connected to the trunk and roots. To have life and get nourishment, the branch depends on its connection to the main trunk or it will die. Without His spirit and teachings feeding our divine life, it will not grow or make fruit. Jesus often told people He was food or drink. They needed to consume Him - to get Him inside them. Is it any surprise then that the communion remembrance ceremony is the eating of bread and wine.

Verses

• “I am the vine, and you are the branches. If you stay joined to me, and I to you, you will produce plenty of fruit. But separated from me you won’t be able to do anything.   John 15:5

• "I am the bread that gives life." John 6:48

• But anyone who drinks the water I give will never be thirsty again. The water I give people will be like a spring flowing inside them. It will bring them eternal life.” John 4:14

Same Theme, Different Illistrations

Have you noticed that Jesus would use different stories or comments to illustrate the same theme? The verses below are an example of the theme "be humble".


Verses

• Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5
• Whoever will humble himself therefore and become like this little child [trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving] is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.  Matthew 18:4
• If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all.   Mark 9
• To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable, "Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." Luke 18:9
• Mother and Sons of Zebadee come asking Jesus to sit on his right and left in the Kingdom.  Jesus explains leaders must be servants of all. Matthew 20

And there are a lot more such as these.