The wide gate is the entrance that engages other world religions, while the narrow gate is faith in Jesus that leads to eternal life when we pass away. Jesus is the Savior (or narrow way) that leads to life after death. The road is difficult (strait, narrow, hard, and small) because many will find it hard to believe that Jesus is the only entrance to life after death. They continue down the broad path and miss heaven completely.
Many people would rather create their own religions and design their own gods. So, it was in sorrow (not discrimination), that Jesus declared that the road to eternal life is narrow… and unfortunately, only a few find it. Their GPS coordinates is leading them down the broad path instead of the narrow way.
Related Scriptures
Matthew 7:13-14 NKJV Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
John 8:32 NKJV And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
John 10:7 NKJV Then Jesus said to them again, "Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
John 10:9 NKJV I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
John 14:6 NKJV Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Acts 4:12 NKJV Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
Romans 5:1-2 NKJV Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Ephesians 2:18 NKJV For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
1 Timothy 2:5 NKJV For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.