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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