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在整个登山宝训中，这可能是耶稣的教导中最具挑战性的信息。

宽大的门和宽阔的路上充满了拒绝神和偏行己路的人。（参太 6:13）但这条路上也有一些人，他们认为自己与主的关系完全没问题——从表面看，他们似乎所做一切皆是正确的事。但结果可能是，他们自己实际上一直远离基督。

我们最重要的责任不是我们去了多少次教会。也不是我们捐了多少钱或做了多少次志愿者。我们得救不是因为我们避免看限制级电影或不偷窃他人财物。

最重要的事情是认识耶稣，并被耶稣所认识。这意味着我们把生命放在祂手里，把我们自己的安排放下，这样我们就可以诚实地说：“不要成就我的意思，只要成就祢的意思”。（参路 22:42）试图从远远地追随耶稣的人有可能被祂拒绝，因为祂要求我们全心全意，紧紧跟随。

如果这还不能让你感到丝毫紧张，你才真正应该紧张了。耶稣在呼召每个人，包括教会内和教会外的人，进行自我省察：我的信仰是诚实的吗？我走在正确的路上吗？我真的认识祂吗？而祂也真的认识我吗？

Out of the entire Sermon on the Mount, this might be the most challenging of Jesus’ teachings.

The wide gate and the broad road are full of people who have rejected God and have gone their own way (Matthew 6:13). But there are also people on that road who think they are right with the Lord—people who, from the outside, appear to be doing all the right things. But it can turn out that they’ve actually been far from Christ all along.

The most important thing about us isn’t how many times we have gone to church. It’s not how much money we have given or how often we have volunteered. We’re not saved because we avoid R-rated movies or do not steal. Instead, the most important thing is knowing, and being known by, Jesus. This means losing our lives in him and putting our agenda aside so that we can honestly say, “Not my will, but yours be done” (Luke 22:42). People who try to follow Jesus from a distance risk his rejection because he demands our whole hearts and our whole selves.

If that doesn’t make you a little nervous, it should. Jesus is calling everyone, both in and outside of the church, to do some self-examination: Is my faith genuine? Am I on the right path? Do I really know him? And does he really know me?