What is the narrow way like, and why do so few people find it?
The narrow way leads to eternal life, but it is narrow and has nothing that appeals to the masses, so few find it. By contrast, the broad way is wide, well lit, and well traveled, and many go that way. God has always been satisfied with only a small remnant.
Les teaches that Jesus contrasted two ways. The broad way is wide, well lit, and well traveled, and many enter it. The way to eternal life is narrow, with nothing that appeals to the masses, and only a few find it. He says this has always been true: God has always been satisfied with just a small remnant. Les points back to Elijah on Mount Carmel, where after the prophets of Baal were put to death, Jezebel threatened him, and he ran until he sat under a juniper tree and asked God to take his life, thinking he was the only one left. God told him there were still 7,000. Les says that was a remnant, and it has been that way throughout human history and even now through the church age—only a small percentage, a small remnant. The context also notes there is eternal doom for those who reject the gospel, and that has been the biggest majority through human history.