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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.
So He comes to the end of His sermon and He pulls together these two realities: the religion of human achievement, the religion of divine accomplishment. And as we come to the end, as I began to read in verse 13, I want you to see the contrast, they are vivid. There are two gates: wide and narrow. There are two ways: broad and narrow. There are two destinies: life and destruction. There are two crowds: many and few. There are actually two trees, good and corrupt; and two fruits, good and bad. There are two behaviors: the sayers and the doers. There are two builders: the wise and the foolish. There are two foundations: the rock and the sand. And there are two houses: the one that stood, and the one that fell.
From the statement of Christ, it is obvious that the narrow pathway leads to the Kingdom of Heaven while the broad way leads to Hell and destruction. He did not just point at the two pathways; He also gave the characteristics of the two pathways to enable us to make informed and wise decisions. He wants us to be prepared for the journey with an understanding of what lies ahead so that we will be able to navigate the difficult terrain and come out into life everlasting.
The command of Christ to believers to strive and enter the narrow gate does not in any way deny the fact that salvation is by grace alone. But we should understand that the choice that we make after coming to Christ is very important to God. We cannot surrender to Christ and choose the broad pathway all in the name of freedom in Christ. I believe that there are ethics and norms which should guide our conduct as Christians. Any contrary ideology is not of God.
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The results of our studies suggest that stabilising selection for narrow gate of emergence in the morning does not affect pre-adult development time and survivorship. Although we observed no difference in gate-width between the selected and control populations, it must be noted that the development time assay was done under uncrowded conditions (30 eggs per vial) in contrast to the normal maintenance conditions for the populations where the larval density is about 300 eggs per vial. In the crowded maintenance conditions, the gate-width of emergence of the selected populations has evolved to be significantly shorter than the controls as a direct response to selection (Kannan et al., 2012). Such differences in the expression of response to selection in assay environments different from the maintenance environment have also been reported previously (Ackermann et al., 2001). However, despite the absence of differences in their mean development time, flies from the selected populations showed lower inter-individual variance in development time. This results in greater coherence in emergence time in selected populations.
Morning emerging mated females have higher mid-life fecundity than those emerging in the evening, which is consistent with the fact that evening emergence is maladaptive in flies from the selected populations. Since in these fly populations, emergence in the morning is strictly selected for, the proportion of flies emerging in the morning is much greater than those emerging in the evening (Kannan et al., 2012). Thus, although fecundity of selected populations is reduced compared to the controls at late-life stage, under the given protocol of a 21 day generation cycle, flies from the selected populations would have an adaptive advantage in terms of survival and egg output on the day when it matters the most. Hence, we can conclude that female flies selected for narrow gate of emergence have greater reproductive fitness than the controls under the maintenance regime. However, we have only considered flies with mean and extreme phenotypes of emergence timing and compared their life history traits, while conclusions regarding overall fitness of a population should be based on a more random sampling of flies from the population. Since a great majority of the flies emerge around the morning window of selection; our conclusions are likely to be robust for flies emerging across the day.
Some say the hand of fate guides our destiniesand it was so to be, but I am at a lossto understand why it should so be. I havelived clean, I have always met my obligationswith the strictest honor, no marks of dissipation,inwardly or otherwise, have scarred myform and thank God he nor any other canfind any danger signals that can isolate mefrom a free transport to the narrow path. Ihave been economical, conservative and kindand I think I have done my very best. I havetreated every one with the closest applicationthat can be unravelled from the ten commandments and204the additional commandment establishedthrough Christ. 2b1af7f3a8