Lesson 2
God’s Warning
Christ, who is all knowing, tells us that
many people are going to be lost, but only few are going to be saved. In
Matthew 7:13-14 He says, "Enter by the narrow gate:
for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction,
and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and
difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find
it". Now this gets my attention. According to the Bible the
majority of people will be lost. We must take this warning from God
at face value. Only a few people will be saved.
How few is few? In 1 Peter 3:20 (KJV)
we read, "When once the longsuffering of God waited in
the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing, wherein few, that is eight
souls were saved by water." The conservative estimate of the
number of people on the face of the earth in the days of Noah is two
hundred million (200,000,000) people. But only eight (8) out of the
estimated two hundred million (200,000,000) were saved. Not very
good odds. Even though the Bible says in 1 Peter 3:9 that the Lord
is "not willing that any should perish", Jesus
says in Matthew 7:13-14 concerning eternal life in Heaven that "there are few who find it". The vast majority
of people will spend forever and ever in the eternal fires of Hell that
will never be extinguished. Why? The vast majority of people
are not really interested in going to Heaven, but you are or you wouldn't
be studying this course concerning your salvation.
There are only two roads to eternity and we are on one or
the other. According to what the Lord says, only few will make it to
heaven, but the vast majority will be lost in eternal punishment. This is
both frightening and sad. I don’t consider myself selfish, but I certainly
want to be among the few who are saved, don’t you? We make the choice
ourselves as to where we will spend eternity. We are free moral agents.
This is how we differ from the animals. We have been made in the image of
God. Genesis 1:26, "Then God said let Us make man
in Our image". Also in Genesis 2:7 we read, "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living
soul". Yes, we posses a soul that will live forever in one of
two places.
God does not want anyone to be lost, but the choice is
ours. In 2 Peter 3:9 we read, "The Lord is not slack
concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering
toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should
come to repentance". God does not want us to go into eternal
punishment. He is not going to force us to serve him, otherwise we would
be mere robots. 1 Timothy 2:4 says concerning God, "Who desires all men to be saved, and to come to
the knowledge of the truth". It is God’s will that all be
saved, but we know that is not going to happen. We have already seen that
only few are going to be saved and the majority are going to be lost.
What is your eternal destiny? If you miss Heaven,
you will be thrown into the eternal fires of Hell. One of the
saddest things about going to Hell is the fact that it could have been
avoided. The majority of people will be lost in spite of what the
Lord has done. A person who goes to Hell is his own worst
enemy. Hell is not what God does to us, but Hell is what we do to
ourselves. If one ends up in Hell, he only has himself to blame.
Also, as the verse says, before we can be saved, we must
"come to the knowledge of the truth." Jesus says in John 8:32, "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free." What is the truth that will make us free? In John 17:17
Jesus says, "Sanctify them by your truth. Your word
is truth." So the word of God is the truth that will make us
free so that we can go to heaven.
Questions Lesson 2
God's Warning
(click on the button of the answer of your
choice) 1) (Matthew 7:13-14) How
many people will go to heaven?
Many
Few
Everyone
2)
The majority of people will go into eternal punishment.
3) (2 Peter 3:9) The Lord is not willing that
Any should perish.
Any should be saved.
Any should repent.
4)
God does not want anyone to be lost.
5) (1 Timothy 2:4) God desires that
All men have a good time.
All men be saved.
No one be saved.
6)
God will force us to be saved.
7) (John 8:32) What will make us free?
Ourselves
Money
Truth
8)
Before we can be saved we must know the truth.
9) (John 17:17) What is truth?
What we think.
God's word.
What our preacher says.
10)
The word of God is the only truth that will make us
free. | 
