Life In Christ Bible Study
The Narrow Door
Luke 13:22-30
February 1, 2025
presented by
Bible Teacher Michael Webb

Open It

  1. In what areas of life do you tend to procrastinate?
  2. How does it feel to miss a good opportunity?
  3. What is it like when an important person whom you know acts as if you are a stranger?

Explore It

  1. What was Jesus doing on His way to Jerusalem? (13:22)
  2. What did someone ask Jesus? (13:23)
  3. *According to Jesus, what is worth every effort to accomplish? (13:24)
  4. *What happens once the door is shut? (13:25)
  5. How will the owner of the house respond to those who want to go in after the door is shut? (13:25)
  6. How will those left outside try to appeal to the owner? (13:26)
  7. *How successful will attempts to enter the house be after the door is shut? (13:27)
  8. What will those who cannot enter hear? (13:28)
  9. What will those who cannot enter see? (13:28)
  10. What will take place in the kingdom of God? (13:29)
  11. How will the usual order be turned around? (13:30)

Get It

  1. Why did someone ask how many would be saved?
  2. *What does the narrow door represent?
  3. *In what sense is the way to God narrow?
  4. How does a person “enter through the narrow door”?
  5. Who is the “owner of the house,” and why will he refuse entry to people?
  6. When will it be too late for people to come to God?
  7. Why do people put off coming to God?
  8. When are you tempted to put off responding to God’s commands?
  9. What do you think the feast in the kingdom of God will be like?
  10. What was Jesus saying about human relationships when He said that the first will be last?
  11. In what way is the first last and the last first?
  12. How would the owner of the house respond to you?
  13. Who is someone you want to introduce to Jesus before the door of opportunity closes?

Apply It

  1. What can you do this week toward introducing someone to Jesus? How?
  2. *What can you do to keep your beliefs and responses to God faithful to His Word?

 

Lesson Scripture

Luke 13:22-30 (NKJV)
Lk 22  And He went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
23  Then one said to Him, “Lord, are there few who are saved?” And He said to them,
24  “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
25  When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from,’
26  then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.’
27  But He will say, ‘I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.’
28  There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out.
29  They will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God.
30  And indeed there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.”