The Narrow Path

You can't follow the Lord Jesus and Satan. You can't be in the church and in the club. You can't praise and swear.

You can't be in the light and in the darkness. You need to stop faltering between these two opinions. Stick to one.

It is either the Lord or Satan. So when the heart falters, when the heart walks in more than one path, it becomes crooked heart, not upright anymore. Now I will give you an example from the Holy Bible of what an upright heart is all about.

Are you with me? You guys are too quiet. Sometimes I get worried when you are too quiet. It's either you are fully focused or I've lost you.

Which one is it? The former or latter? The former? Hallelujah. Jeremiah 2 5. All right, I feel like one of those American preachers. Go for it.

I'll give an example from the Holy Bible. The Lord Jesus and his disciples in the gospel according to St. John chapter 6. In John chapter 6, we see the Lord and his disciples. Now the Lord Jesus said a word in chapter 6 of John, no intellect can ever fathom.

No intellect can ever comprehend, understand, fathom. What did the Lord Jesus say? We find it in John 6 53. Look at the Lord.

Then Jesus said to them, most assuredly, that's a New King James version. In other words, truly. Then Jesus said to them, most assuredly or truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

Man, like imagine yourself back in those beautiful blessed days of the Lord and you have been following the Lord because you've heard some wonderful news about Jesus Christ and you got really excited and interested in meeting him. So you started following him from this place to that and before you know it, the Lord stopped and started preaching and he said to you, unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in you. Sorry? Eat your flesh? Drink your blood? Man, I want to go home.

Please leave me alone. This is too much. My head is going to explode.

What do you mean eat your flesh? This can't happen. It cannot be fathomed by my little, minute intellect, Lord. What are you talking about? Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

This is hanging on between death or life or life or death. So if I don't eat your flesh and drink your blood, I'm dead. But I can't do it, Lord.

And I want to live. What are you doing to me? Look at this, my beloved. All those who walked with the Lord Jesus were called disciples.

All those who walked with the Lord Jesus were called disciples. None of them, and I mean none of them, believed in what the Lord just said in John 6.53. The entire disciples, none of them believed or nor accepted what Christ spoke in John 6.53. You need to eat my flesh and drink my blood. None of them believed in it.

In other words, the disciples who did not believe were the 12 apostles and the other disciples. All of them are called disciples. A follower of Jesus Christ is a disciple.

So in the midst of those people were the 12 apostles also. Simon, Peter, Philip, Andrew, Nathaniel, you name them. All 12, none of them believed in what Jesus just said.

However, the 12 apostles decided to stay with the Lord. The 12 apostles decided to stay with the Lord and all the other disciples left him and walked away. They said, those who walked away, they said this is a hard saying.

Who can understand it? What do you mean eat your flesh and drink your blood? This is a hard saying Jesus. No one can understand. Now who were those who left the Lord and walked away from him? Who were they? I'll tell you who they were.

The 5,000 men, not including the women and the children, where the Lord Jesus performed that miracle by multiplying the two fishes and the five loaves of bread. He fed 5,000 men, not including women and children. They were in the thousands.

When he fed them with those two fishes and five loaves and there was extra left over, they followed the Lord Jesus because this miracle blew their mind away. They followed him shortly thereafter. The Lord Jesus says to all of them, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

All of them walked away from him, except the 12 apostles. 5,000 men, not including women and children. Each man has a wife.

That's another 5,000 women. Man, that's difficult. So 5,000, 10,000 children, there would have been maybe at least 20,000 people.

All 20 left the Lord because he said you need to eat my flesh and drink my blood. That just shows you how much you need to rely on people. One day they love you, the next day will deny you.

One day they'll glorify you, the next day wipe the floor with you. When you rely on people outside of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, there is no relationship. The Lord must be the foundation to everything.

They followed him, they worshiped him, they adored him a few hours ago. Later on, all of them denied and walked away from him, except the 12. Now listen to this.

Except the 12, they decided to stay. The 12 apostles stayed, but their eyes were saying they are in disbelief of what he just said, Jesus. So they remained, but the Lord Jesus looked at their faces, looked at their eyes, and he could read what's in their heart, even though, I mean, he's God, he knows, but by looking at their eyes was enough to know that what their heart is saying is totally different to what their action is really saying.

You stayed with me, but your eyes are saying you're not believing in me, but you chose to stay. Incredible. Even though you did not believe, even though you did not fathom it, but you decided to stay with the Lord.

Regardless, they stayed back. Because in John 6 67, in John 6 67, it says, then Jesus said to the 12, to the 12 apostles, then Jesus said to the 12, do you also want to go away? Do you want to go? I can see it in your eyes. I can see it written on your faces.

Do you want to go? Please do. Be my guest. Do you also want to go away? Saint Peter's reply, Saint Peter's reply was absolutely beautiful.

Sometimes when we mention poor Saint Peter, we mention that he denied the Lord. We need to also mention the good things that Saint Peter had done. Saint Peter's reply here was incredible.

Incredible. It was a reply of an upright heart. It was a reply of an upright heart.

Saint Peter internally, inside of him, he was saying, this is a hard saying, O Lord, who can understand it? But in verse 68 of John 6, but Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Lord, to whom shall we go? You're saying, do you want to go also? You're asking us to go? I'm asking you, Lord, where shall we go? Because we've realized that the words of eternal life are only with you. They are nowhere else to be found but in you.

Even though you speak eternal words, eternal life, your words are eternal life. Even though you speak them, we believe that your words are eternal life. Yet we understand nothing.

Yet we fathom nothing. Yet we comprehend nothing. But we chose to stay because in you, life eternal lies.

That is an upright heart's reply, my beloved. Now, question, who can remain with the Lord Jesus while failing to grasp his words? I'll ask it again. Who can remain with the Lord Jesus, yet they are understanding nothing of what he is saying? Who can remain with the Lord? Let me put it this way.

When you go to a place and you don't understand anything, are you going to stay there or are you going to leave? I'm asking you, come on. You'll leave, isn't it? It's only normal. It's only natural to leave because I'm not relating.

I'm not understanding. Why should I go and stay in a place where I'm understanding nothing? The moment you don't understand, you pack yourself and leave and you will never go back to that place ever again. True or not? True or not? Now, when you go to the Lord Jesus and follow him, live with him, live for him, and you become a true disciple of the Lord Jesus, you will not understand what the Lord is saying, what the Lord is doing, yet you remain with him.

How are you able to remain with him yet you don't understand anything from him? Who can tell me? The only way is to be patient. By your patience, possess your souls. Through your patience, gain your souls.

Through your patience, gain salvation.