Christ Himself is the Gate! I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, He Said! You Cannot Come to God but only by Christ and His Gospel!

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A Devotional for Tuesday May 5, 2026

From the pen of John Bunyan author of Pilgrim's Progress

Is not Christ Himself the Gate?

“When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from’”

Luke 13: 25.

It is that gate that lets men into or shuts men out of that place or kingdom where Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob are. Which place is that paradise where Christ promised the thief that he should be that day that he asked to be with him in his kingdom. It is that place into which Paul said he was caught when he heard words unlawful or impossible for a man to utter (2 Corinthians 12: 1-6).

Is not Christ the gate?

[It is] . . . he without whom no man can get there. Because by his merit’s men obtain that world. And because he, as the Father, is the donor and disposer of that kingdom to whom he will. Further, this place is called his house and himself the Master of it— “When once the Master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door” (Luke 13: 25) But we use to say that the master of the house is not the door. Men enter heaven, then, by him not as he is the gate, or door, or entrance, into the celestial mansion-house. But as he is the giver and disposer of that kingdom to them whom he shall count worthy because he hath obtained it for them.

That this gate is the very passage into heaven, consider the text hath special reference to the day of judgment. When Christ will have laid aside his mediatory office, which before he exercised for the bringing to the faith his own elect. And will then act, not as one that justifies the ungodly, but as one that will judge sinners. He will now be risen from the throne of grace, and shut up the door against all the impenitent, and will be set upon the throne of judgment, from there to proceed with ungodly sinners.