Which road are you on, the high road or the low road?

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 that find it. Matthew 7:13

I want to emphasize that many enter the broad road and few enter the narrow way. There are only two ways and there are no others! We walk on one or the other and there are no other roads to walk. Even as Christian people we have the choice daily or even moment by moment which road we walk.

Paul's ministry to the body of Christ was to lead us from the broad road to the narrow road.

I am sending you to open their eyes and turn them form darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me. Acts 26:18

Paul spent the rest of his life teaching people how to function in the Spirit, how to walk in the spirit. His letters are all for this purpose. He did not spend all his time talking about sin. He taught on being spiritual.

Paul made it very clear in Romans 7 that the broad way and the narrow way are both in us. The broad way is the flesh, the carnal nature. The narrow way is the kingdom of God in us the spiritual way. The foolish Galatians were on the broad way. The Corinthians that Paul spoke of. "I can't speak to you as spiritual but as worldly." These people were also walking the broad way.

Every day of our lives we are faced with the broad and narrow way. It is a moment by moment decision as to what road I want to walk on. If I choose to walk the narrow way I enter the kingdom of God in me and I have peace, joy, righteousness and fullness of the Spirit. If I choose the broad road the flesh has its way and I say and do things that are destructive. As a result of that choice I lose the peace and joy and I don't feel good about myself and I am not in the Spirit.

Paul made it very clear in Romans 7. Sin is in us, evil is in us, There is no good thing in us that is in our flesh. The desire to do good may be there but the doing of the good is not there.

Many of us have tried to be holy and hoped to reach some degree of holiness. But is this possible? I don't think so. We are holy or not holy one or the other. There is the broad and the narrow way, no in between. When we are in the flesh we are not holy. When we are in Christ we are holy, no in between.

Jesus said the Kingdom of God is in us. Can the kingdom of God be in us and us not in the kingdom? Yes!

Is there a place of holiness in us? Yes!

When we are in Christ we are holy. We can label that in many ways. When we are in the Spirit. When we are in the kingdom. They all mean the same thing that is when we are in the narrow way. The narrow way is the way of holiness.

I like the way it describes the narrow way in Isaiah 35:8-9.

And 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 walk that way,

And fools will not wander on it .

No lion will be there

Nor will any vicious beast go up on it;

These will not be found there

But the redeemed will walk there.

I believe this speaks of the narrow way, the kingdom of God in us and Christ in us the hope of glory is the door and there is no other way in all the heavens and all the earth. Only through Jesus Christ can we enter that way.

Which Road are you walking, the broad way of the flesh or the narrow way of the Spirit? There are no other choices.