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The Promises of God: Part CL
Author
Timothy Laughlin
Published
Jan 23, 2025
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"If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it." Luke 9:23,24
"If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it." Luke 9:23,24
It seems that today's gospel has been perverted and watered down so that if you follow Jesus, you can get all you can and can all you get! In other words, health, wealth, and riches, not self-denial or laying down one's life!
When Jesus called His disciples, they didn't hesitate to leave all and follow Him, they had families, businesses, and homes but to walk with Jesus one had to leave all. Today we have a distinction between church members and disciples, church members stay and sit while disciples go into the harvest.
When I first came to the Lord, I remember giving my first offering in church, a hundred dollars and it was all I had, that week I made a $1000.00 and so I got back into the business world and learned how God provides. It wasn't long until my heart began to go after riches and Jesus came to my office and took me to a cemetery where we had my funeral, death to the world!
"For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?" Luke 9:25
Your servant in Christ, Timothy Laughlin
Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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