Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
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… take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me whoever finds his life will lose it and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it folks we have to take up our cross for Jesus Christ in order to be commissioned to service for him that's our commissioning That's not how we get commissioned today in the church. We need to get back to that commissioning. So why is the irenic model the only one that's taught here in America? This is the only model that you'll see in Bible schools. This is the only model that you'll see in seminaries. This is the only model that any of you have heard about. It's only the irenic method. You may not know that word for it, but that's what it is, friendship evangelism. The reason why I think is because possibly because we're as Westerners, we're incapable of confronting the other. And the reason we can't confront the other is because we don't know who they are. …
… We need to decide who we're living for. So he says, if you love father or mother more than me, son or daughter more than me, basically even your life more than me, you have to forsake all others. And we might look at Jesus and say, that's crazy. But think about this. Every person that gets married, that's what they do. Every person who gets married says, okay, I'm forsaking all, that's one of the lines that you use sometimes in weddings. Forsaking all others, we cling to each other. That every religious sister who consecrates herself to the Lord, to this community, she's forsaking all others. Every priest who makes vows to be able to be a priest, he's forsaking all others. Every one of us knows this, that in every area of life where we want to grow in freedom, where we want to grow in love, where we want to have a full life, It always involves restriction so that one can be first. And if we don't do that, if we don't take that risk of intentionally limiting ourself, then we'll never become who we're supposed to be. …
… Jesus is saying, he who does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. He who finds his life will lose it. And he who loses his life for my sake will find it. We can try to hold on to what we have. We can try to grit it out and figure out what we need to do, what we have. But if we just open up our lives and let it go to him, surrender to him for Christ's sake, Amen. then we'll find true life. ct stud said only one life will soon be passed and only what's done for christ will last only one life we have one life are we going to live it for christ what if we what if we haven't got it right and that's all of us right we haven't got it right we've we've been time blind we've been spiritually time blind we've been so unaware we've probably passed by so many moments that God's like, hey, oh, that was something that I wanted you to do. …
… of me whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me whoever finds his life will lose it whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. But this idea of whoever loves father or mother, wife or kids more than me, that word for love there is not agape. The word there is phileo. It's this affection. It's this passion. You know what I'm talking about. You'll see guys, you know, maybe it's your kids. Maybe it's just a friend of yours when they fall in love with someone. and you just go, oh my gosh, he is crazy about her. And there's other times you can hang out with someone and go, he's not that into her, right? You can just tell. And we've all met the parent and maybe some of you are in this room who is, you're just obsessed with your child and you think everyone else should be also. …