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[Julie] (0:51 - 1:05) Matthew 7:13-14: "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it."
[Rick] (1:06 - 1:58) Jesus plainly taught that the vast majority of humanity is traveling on the "broad way that leads to destruction." Further, he taught that there is a "narrow way that leads to life" which is only found by few. For anyone who truly cares about humanity, this can be a very troubling thought.
Why would God, the creator of all things, set up a plan that has such a losing proposition? Was Jesus really saying that there are only a few who will ultimately be saved? If these things are true, then what about all those scriptures that say Jesus died for all?
If this is not the true understanding, then what does this "broad road to destruction" actually refer to? Fortunately, this can all get sorted out by putting several pieces of Biblical reasoning together. Let's begin. When did the "broad road to destruction" begin? Julie, let's look at 1 Corinthians 15:22.
[Julie] (1:58 - 2:20) I'll read the first part of this scripture. It says: "For as in Adam all die..." Six thousand years ago a sinner named Adam started on this road. Nine hundred years later, over nine hundred years later he died, and so did the whole human race who came from him. "In Adam all die." There's no disputing this.
We're all on this road to being destroyed in death.
[Rick] (2:20 - 2:33) Well, thanks for depressing us right at the beginning! Let's look at how this happened. Adam was a perfect man, given the ability to think and choose. Let's go through how this got to be. Genesis 1:27-28:
[Julie] (2:33 - 2:52) "God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
[Rick] (2:52 - 3:07) Adam had everything going for him. He was given dominion. He was blessed of God.
He was created in God's image and he had choices to make to keep that loyalty, and Adam chose disobedience. Let's look at Genesis 3:6:
[Julie] (3:07 - 3:25) "When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate." Rick, we know from 2 Corinthians 11:3 that Eve was deceived.
[Rick] (3:26 - 3:46) She was. She may have been deceived but Adam made a choice, and that's the key here. Adam made a choice even though Eve was deceived, and his choice led to a life of sin and an end of death. This is further depressing information. Genesis 3:17 and 19:
[Julie] (3:46 - 4:00) "Then to Adam He said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat from it; cursed is the ground because of you..."
[Rick] (4:00 - 4:08) Now the ground is in a different state that you're going to have to deal with because of your choice. Let's continue.
[Julie] (4:08 - 4:36) "...in toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; and you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return." There's no more existence. There's no more life; back to dust. This is the permanent cycle repeating itself over and over with every generation until eventually, conceivably, mankind destroys itself.
[Rick] (4:37 - 5:21) When you say "conceivably mankind destroys itself" we can see how that can simply, relatively easily unfold, and that is a scary process. Here's what we have. This dying process included a life, now to be built within the confines of imperfection as we all experience, which meant toil and failure on a regular basis. This is when the "broad road to destruction" began. It was here,"dying thou shalt die." That was the entrance.
Road now opened. Broad road to destruction now open. This road is the road to permanent death in Adam.
That's what it is. All of Adam's children inherit this terminal disease of sin that leads to death. Romans 3:23:
[Julie] (5:21 - 5:49) "...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God..." Here's the problem. Psalm 53:1-3: "The fool has said in his heart, There is no God, they are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice; there is no one who does good. God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there is anyone who understands, who seeks after God. Every one of them has turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one."
[Rick] (5:49 - 6:18) The "broad road to destruction" is a very sad and a very crowded place. You put that Roman scripture along with that Psalm 53 scripture and we're in a bad situation. That's what this "broad road to destruction" is. We can see that being on this "broad road to destruction" has brought sin, pain, suffering, and death as was so easily summed up in our first scripture "as in Adam all die." Now, let's take a look at the second part of that scripture.
[Julie] (6:18 - 6:46) Yeah, thankfully there's two sides to this verse. Now we're going to read the full verse; 1 Corinthians 15:22: "For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive." There's this one-to-one relationship of Adam and Christ, but what does that mean? Are all of the ill effects of this broad road to destruction suddenly and miraculously wiped away? If we just believe in Christ, is it a free ticket to living forever in heaven?
Some churches say that.
[Rick] (6:46 - 7:30) The answer is no, it is not. It's a nice idea, but as we will see, it's a very flawed idea. There is a process involved.
You've got this idea, "so also in Christ will all be made alive." You're saying, okay, the "broad road to destruction" was to get blown up when Christ comes and then everybody is happy forever. There's a process involved.
Jesus paid the price for Adam's sin and therefore for all sins. The act of the sacrifice is like a sign on the broad road to destruction, and that sign on the "broad road to destruction" says -- picture this road sign -- "detour to potential everlasting life ahead." There's a detour sign. Let's look into this and see how we can understand the picture that we're painting here. Hebrews 10:11-12:
[Julie] (7:31 - 8:11) "Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but he (meaning Jesus), having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD." In the bigger context here, the Apostle Paul is comparing God's future New Covenant with Israel's old Law covenant originally given to Moses. Back then, the priests in the Tabernacle and later the Temple had to make these continual sacrifices for themselves and the people in order to make amends, in order to atone for sin and continue in a relationship with God. Back then Moses was their mediator, their go-between, between the people and God.
[Rick] (8:11 - 8:55) You have that picture of, you've got to do these sacrifices again and again and again and again and again, but in Hebrews 10:12, "having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time." That's the comparison, and it's a very stark comparison, meaning stop everything! You don't have to do that because of what I, Jesus, have done. Because of this ransom payment, Jesus will call all from their graves. This is the detour. Remember that sign, that detour sign that's a "detour to potential everlasting life ahead?" Well, this is it. All of humanity is freely given entrance onto this new road to life.
[Julie] (8:56 - 9:18) Century after century everyone is essentially born on this metaphorical road that Earth's billions travel on until they die. It's important to note that there's nothing that we alone can do about it. It doesn't matter how righteous we are, how many good things we do, we keep dying. But because of Jesus, you're saying, there's a way to get off this terrible path. Explain how that works.
[Rick] (9:18 - 9:29) Well, actually I don't have to explain it because Jesus himself does the explanation and we begin with that explanation in John 5:28 and 29:
[Julie] (9:29 - 10:04) "Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice, and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment." Okay, so we start with this baseline that Jesus guaranteed a resurrection for all. "As in Adam all die," like we said, "even so in Christ shall all be made alive." We've got these two equal sides. I can picture this like this old-fashioned scales of justice where two things of equal weight are put on each side and they balance out the scale, an Adam and Jesus.
[Rick] (10:04 - 10:38) Right, so that 1 Corinthians scripture, "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ all be made alive" --there you have the balancing. Now here's the execution of how it's balanced because Jesus died and he was faithful. He's raised and now he comes to the point of being able to call each and every individual from the grave. As each individual is resurrected, they are detoured off the "broad road to destruction," because remember that was eternal death in Adam. You are taken off of that road, and by God's grace, you are given entrance onto this road to eternal life.
[Julie] (10:38 - 10:49) Let me stop you though. Where is this resurrection? Mankind's billions in their sinful state were never promised a heavenly reward when they die. Do they get resurrected into some sort of holding area?
[Rick] (10:50 - 11:44) No, it's all about earth. If you look at the Old Testament prophecies, there are, I don't know, twenty, thirty, forty prophecies that talk about kingdom on earth. Jesus says, thy kingdom come on earth. "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven." It is an earthly picture, an earthly resurrection for these. Obviously, those who were called to follow Jesus are given a heavenly resurrection.
We're going to get into that in a little bit. There's no holding tank somewhere. It is earth.
It's that simple. Why do we add things to Scripture that just aren't there? That fascinates me.
Let's be cautioned here, because being given free entrance on this new road does not guarantee people will stay on it. There is effort required to walk in the ways of righteousness. Part of that effort is accountability.
We're going to look at two parts to accountability here. First, accountability for words spoken; Matthew 12:36 and 37:
[Julie] (11:44 - 11:56) "But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."
[Rick] (11:56 - 12:16) You see that it is not this free ticket. It's not something like, ooh, I don't have to worry about anything. Everything I ever did was washed away.
Not true. There's an accountability for words. Secondly, the accountability we're going to look at is for the things that had been done in your previous life. The Apostle Paul explains it to us this way in Romans 2:5-6:
[Julie] (12:17 - 12:38) "But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to each person according to his deeds..." It seems like no one's going to get away with anything. What you reap, you shall sow.
We've all heard of that. There's got to be consequences to the horrible things that people have done, right?
[Rick] (12:38 - 13:02) Yeah, yeah, and there are consequences, but they're not given in such a way as to beat people down. They're given in such a way as to actually build people up, and we're going to expand that in just a few minutes here. We need to understand that coming off of this broad road to destruction is through the sacrifice of Jesus and through resurrection.
Julie, so far, Humanity's Destiny and the Road to Destruction; how do we put these two things together?
[Julie] (13:02 - 13:20) Because of Adam's sin, all of the human race was initially destined to be on this "broad road to destruction," meaning permanent death in Adam. The sacrifice of Jesus changed humanity's destiny, and he gave all of us a grand opportunity for life.
[Rick] (13:20 - 13:25) This road to destruction is our inherited birthright as human beings. What a great birthright.
[Julie] (13:26 - 13:27) Thanks, Adam.
[Rick] (13:27 - 13:58) Yeah, and folks, here's the beauty of this. Right from the start, God always had the riddle of sin and death figured out. He had it figured out right at the very beginning. Because of God's plan being in place and active, we've already begun to see evidence of how things will change. Now we need to dig more deeply into that evidence. Let's look into what steps take place when so we can understand the final destiny of this "broad road to destruction." We've got to just put some details in place.
[Julie] (13:59 - 14:00) Okay, so what happens to the broad road?
[Rick] (14:00 - 14:21) Alright, what happens to the broad road? Well, let's look at Romans chapter 5.
Now, Romans 5 is one of the greatest chapters in the Bible to explain all of this, but in the interest of focusing in clearly we're going to just look at one verse where the Apostle Paul focuses in great detail on the value of Jesus' sacrifice. Just one verse, Romans 5:18:
[Julie] (14:21 - 14:51) "So then as through one transgression (that refers to Adam’s sin) there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness (referring to Jesus’ sacrifice) there resulted justification of life to all men." There's that equal scale picture again. That's just another way of saying, "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." That one-for-one relationship that we saw in 1 Corinthians 15:22 is here shown in Romans.
[Rick] (14:51 - 15:36) The truth of scripture is clear and simple. We don't need to complicate it. All of humanity is clearly included in being condemned to sin and death in Adam.
Romans 5:18, just that one text. Therefore, justification being free from the guilt of sin--specifically Adamic sin--in Jesus is applicable to all humanity as well. They got the consequences of the bad, they get the consequences and the goodness of the good. It's justice. Just like you said, those scales really, really work well as a picture here. This broad road to destruction does have a detour, and that detour is for all.
Let's look at 1 Timothy 2:3-5.
[Julie] (15:37 - 16:34) We'll read this from the King James Version: "For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." "Saved" here means "to heal, preserve, to make whole." "Knowledge" here is really important. This word in the Greek means "having full discernment, true understanding." That's one way we know that this scripture is yet future, because mankind definitely does not have full discernment right now. Notice the order; all men are saved, made whole, and then come to this understanding. Continuing with verse 5: "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time." What's a mediator? A mediator is someone who sits between opposing parties. When there's business disputes, mediation is often used to negotiate, to bring two sides to come to an agreement. Scripturally, we talked about Moses. He was the mediator between God and the Hebrews.
[Rick] (16:35 - 17:23) You have this scripture that says humanity--it's God's intention for all men "to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth." Saving comes before the disclosure of the understanding, and it comes about through the process of a mediator. You see that it's not, we were talking about consequences, like, "Oh no, oh no!" Well, there's work that's put in place to make that a successful endeavor. Humanity needs to comply with that. Sinful humanity is invited to this mediation table because Jesus paid the price for Adam, which resulted in their resurrection.
The pieces are all in place for this to actually work, in a huge way, for an eternal purpose and an eternal end. With all of this in mind, how do we understand the second verse of our theme scripture?
[Julie] (17:23 - 18:14) Okay, our theme scripture was Matthew 7:13-14. Remember, we previously read verse 13: "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it." Now adding verse 14: "For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it." Again, humanity starts on this "broad road to destruction." There's a detour off this road made available when Jesus died for all of us, allowing a resurrection, being saved out of death from Adam. We're given time to acquire knowledge, full discernment, and Jesus mediates on mankind's behalf to be able to reconcile back with God that which was lost in the Garden of Eden. But now there's this narrow way. What's this road?
Where is this road, and who gets to go on it?
[Rick] (18:15 - 19:21) This narrow way is that way of the followers of Jesus. Take up your cross. Follow me.
Take up your cross and follow me. Deny yourself. Live a life of sacrifice.
That is very, very, very different than what we see as the end result for all mankind being raised later on. This is a road, a way of difficulty. That's why it says narrow and strait is the road. The word is not straight, like straight like an arrow, but strait like very, very difficult. S-T-R-A-I-T. It is a hard road to navigate.
We can see that the way this works is, those individuals are given something different because they are walking a much more difficult road because they are working to follow Jesus in this world, in this life, in the middle of all the mess. This is in perfect harmony with all being saved. Jesus in his first advent called followers to become the body of Christ, and every Christian understands that, the body of Christ.
What is the body of Christ going to do? They're going to play a future role in the closing down of the broad road to destruction.
[Julie] (19:21 - 19:25) Well, I sure like the idea of closing down that death road. It was going nowhere.
[Rick] (19:25 - 19:45) It is, and it's going to nowhere for eternity. When there's eternal death, that's it. There's never, ever, ever anything beyond that. The gospel clearly teaches that two different categories of people benefit from Jesus' sacrifice. This is important.
Let's go back to 1 Timothy. Let's now go to chapter 4:10:
[Julie] (19:45 - 19:58) "For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers." Okay, there's definitely two categories here. We've got all men, and believers.
[Rick] (19:59 - 20:18) It says especially believers. The "Savior of all men." Yay! Especially believers. Wow! You've got the "yay," and then you've got the "wow." All of humanity is in one category, and Jesus' followers are in another category. This is not the only time we see this in scripture. 1 John 2:1-2:
[Julie] (20:18 - 20:28) "My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous..."
[Rick] (20:28 - 20:59) Let's pause there. It says "WE have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." Now Julie, an advocate is very different than a mediator.
An advocate is somebody who sits next to you, who pleads on your behalf; whereas a mediator sits between opposing parties. This is helping us understand. What's the difference? "We"--John is writing to Christians--"have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." Let's finish the verse, and then we'll put it all together.
Let's go to verse 2:
[Julie] (20:59 - 21:12) "...and he himself is the propitiation (that's a word that means satisfaction or atonement) for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world."
[Rick] (21:12 - 21:36) Again, two categories. He is the atonement for our sins, but wait, there's more, not ours only, but for the sins "of the whole world." The advocate relationship, described in verse 1 of 1 John 2, is describing those whom Jesus stands with and represents, versus those whom he mediates for from the previous scripture in 1 Timothy 2.
[Julie] (21:37 - 21:47) Okay, so we've got two categories of people, clearly. We've got the called-out ones; they get Jesus as their advocate. We've got the everybody else; they get Jesus as a mediator.
[Rick] (21:47 - 21:53) Two different classes of people with positive effects from Jesus's sacrifice.
[Julie] (21:53 - 22:09) If we look at, remember in John 5:29, it says, "...and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment." I'm seeing two different categories here, also.
[Rick] (22:09 - 22:40) Right, right, and when it talks about judgment, it's God's righteous judgment. Sometimes we confuse God's judgment with humanity's interpretations, and we get very, very, very far off as a result. God's judgment is righteous, it's above. Hey, here's an idea, it is fair beyond comprehension. It is kind and it's merciful and it's fair and it is just. We see that all over scripture, but let's just give one scripture to focus us in on this, Acts 17:31:
[Julie] (22:41 - 22:54) "...He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising him from the dead." Obviously, he's talking about Jesus here.
[Rick] (22:54 - 23:03) This judgment will be just and difficult. It's not going to be an easy road. It'll be just and difficult for those who were not true followers of Jesus.
[Julie] (23:04 - 23:20) The world is going to be judged. You can't just sin and do whatever we want and have there be no consequence, but it'll be judged with love and mercy playing a part. I'm so glad that we worship a God that judges with love and mercy because without it, oof, it'd be harsh.
[Rick] (23:20 - 23:39) It would be, but the beauty is judgment occurs, and it's important, and it's necessary, and that's where we go with God's planning. It works out for the benefit of all. Let's go back to this because we want to be focusing on this "broad road to destruction." Romans 6:23:
[Julie] (23:45 - 23:59) "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Again this just reinforces, "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." After everyone is raised in the kingdom, what happens to that "broad road to destruction," that death road that we have no ability to get off on our own?
[Rick] (23:59 - 24:10) Well, remember we saw the sign that said "detour to the potential road to life?" How about this for a sign? Big, big, big old sign on this road to destruction that says "Road Closed."
[Julie] (24:11 - 24:13) Okay, I like that.
[Rick] (24:13 - 24:36) Road closed. "The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." That's the destiny of the "broad road to destruction." Road closed. How do we know? Let's go to further scriptures.
1 Corinthians 15:20-26, and we're going to take this in pieces because it really explains how it all will work in the future:
[Julie] (24:36 - 24:49) "But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. For since by a man came death (that's Adam), by a man also came the resurrection of the dead (Jesus)."
[Rick] (24:49 - 25:08) Alright, we've got the beginning and this is setting up for the verse that we started out with. Remember we broke this next verse into two pieces. The whole point is that Christ came, he was raised from the dead, and that changed the destiny of everybody.
Now let's read verses 22 and 23.
[Julie] (25:09 - 25:47) We've been saying this a lot: "For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive." Continuing: "But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits (and that refers to his faithful disciples), after that those who are Christ's at his coming (that refers to the general world of mankind),..." This is showing the order of resurrection, how everyone will be coming back. Continuing with verse 24: "...then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when he has abolished all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death."
[Rick] (25:47 - 26:39) We have a clear understanding that because of the intervention of Jesus, all those thousands of years ago, because of that intervention, and his living that perfect human life to ransom Adam's perfect human life, you have the destiny of humanity--which was going down into the pit of destruction for eternity--is now changed. All of that because justice was satisfied, and that's the way God's plan always works.
It's always just. Now how does this come about for the world of mankind? Because we are really screwed up.
Let's understand that. Let's just not mince any words here. It comes about through difficulty.
Through difficulty will come peace, harmony, and godliness. Here's a scripture that really gives us a good picture of this; Zephaniah 3:8-9:
[Julie] (26:39 - 27:01) "Therefore wait for Me, declares the LORD, For the day when I rise up as a witness. Indeed, My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out on them My indignation, all My burning anger; for all the earth will be devoured by the fire of My zeal." Wait, the earth is devoured?
I thought you said the detour after resurrection was on earth.
[Rick] (27:01 - 27:01) It is.
[Julie] (27:01 - 27:02) Earth just got devoured.
[Rick] (27:02 - 27:25) Well, well, hang on, time out, time out. See, when we read prophecy, we have to understand, we have to put it in the context that it belongs. It says "the earth will be devoured by the fire of My zeal," and you say, well, that means the earth is being burned up. No, it means the social order of things is being burned up. How do we know that? Because the next verse--you don't even take a breath between the two verses-- here's what verse 9 says. Go ahead, Julie:
[Julie] (27:26 - 27:50) "For then I will give to the peoples purified lips, that all of them may call on the name of the LORD, to serve Him shoulder to shoulder." This is really important because God's future kingdom, for all that burning anger and devouring, it ended with "purified lips" calling on God and serving Him. This isn't eternal fire picture with people being tortured and not having full discernment and full knowledge. The whole of humanity is praising Him.
[Rick] (27:51 - 27:51) Yes.
[Julie] (27:51 - 27:52) Yay!
[Rick] (27:53 - 28:04) What happened to that broad road to destruction? Big old sign. Road closed.
It's done. It's over because of Jesus' sacrifice.
[Julie] (28:04 - 28:39) Yes, and in effect another road opens up. Look at Isaiah 35:8-10. It says: "A highway will be there, a roadway, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, but it will be for him who walks that way, and fools will not wander on it. No lion will be there, nor any vicious beast go up on it; these will not be found there. But the redeemed will walk there, and the ransomed of the LORD will return and come with joyful shouting to Zion, with everlasting joy upon their heads. They will find gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away." Beautiful.
[Rick] (28:39 - 29:04) It is beautiful and it's prophetic. Folks, if it's beautiful and it's prophetic and it's an earthly picture, what are we waiting for? We need to just simply embrace that this is the way the scriptures help us understand what happens to that "broad road to destruction" and what happens to all of humanity. It is a good ending. It's a good ending, not without accountability, but it's a good ending. Julie, let's wrap this up; Humanity's Destiny and the Road to Destruction. Go ahead.
[Julie] (29:05 - 29:32) The "broad road to destruction" is the road to Adamic death, created by Adam's sin, which was passed on to all of his posterity. This road to destruction will be permanently closed as the sacrifice of Jesus will be made plain to every human being who ever lived through their individual resurrections. All that will be left will be choices for each individual to follow godly righteousness as they walk on the new Highway of Holiness.
[Rick] (29:32 - 30:16) We had that question. What is this "broad road to destruction?" Where does it lead to?
What do we have to think about? What do we worry about? The point is Jesus actually took care of that.
Each individual, therefore, must play their part, whether they are part of that resurrection that goes to heaven with Jesus, or later the resurrection of judgment, where they learn reconciliation through the righteous judgment of God. But the "broad road to destruction" will be eternally closed. Think about it.
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