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Matt.16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 16:25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it. 16:26 For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Life is precious, and yet, on this earth life is treated often with little or no respect. We as human run in to extreme sparing no cost to save a person and disregarding a unborn child. We will spend million upon a famous persons life, and let others die of lack of food in a third world. In fact, it seems sometime the human race is insane when it treats lives so much differently over country, power, wealth, race, age, and political views.

Matthew 10:29 "Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion coin{An assarion is a small coin worth one tenth of a drachma or a sixteenth of a denarius. An assarion is approximately the wages of one half hour of agricultural labor.}? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will.

When we read Christ words above, we could get to thinking Christ has no appreciation for life by asking each of us to give up our lives for him? Many of Christian's have mistakenly devoted their lives to an organization becoming a slave to its every demands thinking this is what Christ wanted a life of service for fellowman through some worldly group, but its not!

Matt.6:1 "Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. 6:2 Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. 6:3 But when you do merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know what your right hand does, 6:4 so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. 6:5 "When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites,

To accept Christ when these words were spoken to those listening would mean after Christ death and resurrection God's Holy Spirit would be pour out upon his disciples their lives on this earth in the flesh would be considered dead in Christ, freed from sin, where the Holy Spirit could reside in them making them the temple of God. The life they would than live would be Christ Jesus life indwelling them dedicated as the physical temple of God was when on earth. Their lives were living sacrifice for God. They had no life to save it was gone in Christ, they were new a new creation created for God's will.

Ephesians 2:15 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

Ephesians 4:24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

This group was Spirit led, under the headship of Christ Jesus, their thinking or life was no longer theirs. In this context Christ was speaking about these dedicated servants of God that must follow in the footsteps of Christ Jesus where ever he would led them, and like Christ they would add nothing to Satan world. Satan wanted Christ to add to his world that is why he handed Christ all the kingdoms of this world, to get him involved in saving Satan enterprise! Christ flatly rejected his offer, why?

John 8:23 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

James 4:13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit." 4:14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. 4:15 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that." 4:16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

Simply put, he belonged to another, Christ belong to YHWH and his will. Christ was indwelt with the Fathers Holy Spirit being led as the wind into wherever the Father wanted him to go and do in ways of service. Christ must reject any lesser assignment of doing the work for mankind's glory instead of the Fathers glory. This is why we are certain without question Christ is the one proven faithful slave, given rulership by his Father upon his faithful course to his death.

John 3:8 The wind{The same Greek word (pneuma) means wind, breath, and spirit.} blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Romans 13:14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Revelation 3:13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

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