Tuesday, November 11, 2014

I can not change who I have become and going to in Jesus Christ!

As T. Austin Sparks once wrote: "It is a difficult, costly way, but I can not have revelation, and go on in revelation, and at the same time compromise over details and have things at any point other than exactly as my Lord wants them. I am not governed by diplomacy or policy or public opinion. I am governed by what my Lord has said in my heart by revelation as to His purpose."

2 Cor. 5:15 says: "And He died for all, that they who live SHOULD NO LONGER LIVE FOR THEMSELVES, BUT FOR HIM WHO DIED AND ROSE AGAIN ON THEIR BEHALF." Here you see a gospel that is hardly preached anywhere! If you were to take the time to read the words in red I think you would quickly find a gospel that has been all but lost to the "free world." You would also soon see that Jesus did not make it easy to follow Him...He said, in so many words; "count the cost;"

Luke 14:26-33 says: "If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate, (Love less), his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot by My disciple. For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

Otherwise, when he has laid down the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him, saying, 'this man began to build and was unable to finish.' Or what King, when he sets out to meet another King in battle, will not first sit down and take counsel whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks terms of peace. So therefore, no one of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions."

Mat. 16:24-26 likewise says: "if anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life shall loose it; but Whoever looses his life for My sake shall find it. For what will a man be profited, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

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