Pilgrim’s Progress #8: Evangelist rescues Christian... again! + he finally makes it to the Gate where Goodwill meets/takes him in. Aren’t you glad when you meet Goodwill on your life journey? He sets Christian’s course on the ‘straight+narrow’, not the seductive ‘broad+crooked’, and directs him to Interpreter’s House. Here he sees/realizes 7 things for understanding + purpose: 1 a picture of man looking to heaven = world at his back; 2 a dusty parlour: sweeping = Law only stirs dust up, but water sprinkled = Gospel cleanses heart; 3 2 children: Passion = discontent; wants everything now X Patience = quiet; seeks eternal + at last wins all; 4 unquenchable fire = grace is unstoppable; 5 a persistent man = even violent force gains access to palace; 6 a professor in dark cage, heart so hardened, now without hope; 7 a man awakening from bed, but not ready for judgment? So Christian now has a healthy Word +Spirit balance: Hope +Fear = both wings = gifts of the Interpreter = the Holy Spirit, to not only protect, but guide him to his true destination … and so does every Christ-follower!