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Gospel Reading - Take the gate to life

¹³“Heaven can be entered only through the narrow gate! The highway to hell^a is broad, and its gate is wide enough for all the multitudes who choose its easy way. ¹⁴But the Gateway to Life is small, and the road is narrow, and only a few ever find it.

¹⁵“Beware of false teachers who come disguised as harmless sheep, but are wolves and will tear you apart. ¹⁶You can detect them by the way they act, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit. You need never confuse grapevines with thorn bushes or figs with thistles. ¹⁷Different kinds of fruit trees can quickly be identified by examining their fruit. ¹⁸A variety that produces delicious fruit never produces an inedible kind. And a tree producing an inedible kind can’t produce what is good. ¹⁹So the trees having the inedible fruit are chopped down and thrown on the fire. ²⁰Yes, the way to identify a tree or a person^b is by the kind of fruit produced.

²¹“Not all who sound religious are really godly people. They may refer to me as ‘Lord,’ but still won’t get to heaven. For the decisive question is whether they obey my Father in heaven. ²²At the Judgment^c many will tell me, ‘Lord, Lord, we told others about you and used your name to cast out demons and to do many other great miracles.’ ²³But I will reply, ‘You have never been mine.^d Go away, for your deeds are evil.’