{"id":107,"date":"2011-07-05T21:02:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T02:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:22:03","slug":"lifes-royal-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s Royal Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt. 7:13-14<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: How Do We Get on This Road?<\/strong><br \/>\n1. A wall of sin separates us from it like a giant steel fence.<br \/>\n2. It is impossible to work our way onto this road.<br \/>\n3. You can&#8217;t reason your way onto this road.<br \/>\n4. You can&#8217;t buy your way on, for the toll is too much.<br \/>\n5. There is a Door that opens free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: How do we Know when We Are on This Road?<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren.&#8221; John 1 3:14<br \/>\n2. &#8220;The Spirit itself beareth witness with ours, that we are the children of God.&#8221;<br \/>\n3. Our hearts burn within us.<br \/>\n4. We see the historical land marks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: Is it a Good Road?<\/strong><br \/>\n1. It is narrow.<br \/>\n2. It is not crowded.<br \/>\n3. It leads thru valleys of sorrow and over Mountains of persecution.<br \/>\n4. This road demands the best of driving.<br \/>\n5. There will be times when joy will overflow us and rivers of peace flow gently along.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: Where Does it Lead?<\/strong><br \/>\n1. From a condemned world.<br \/>\n2. From the bondage of sin.<br \/>\n3. It leads to the Holy City.<br \/>\n4. It leads to the King of Kings.<br \/>\n5. It leads to a land of Paradise where no tears of sorrow are ever shed.<br \/>\n6. It leads to a land where the sun never sets and darkness never covers.<br \/>\n7. It leads to the tree of life, and pure river of water of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt. 7:13-14 I: How Do We Get on This Road? 1. A wall of sin separates us from it like a giant steel fence. 2. It is impossible to work our way onto this road. 3. You can&#8217;t reason your way onto this road. 4. You can&#8217;t buy your way on, for the toll is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}