Thursday, February 20, 2014

Willing to Lose all for Christ!

Are you a Believer in the Lord Jesus Christ?

If so, are you willing to lose all your friends and family to follow Christ?

If you are living in comfort fixated on having friends and family always in your life, then you will not be able to honor and obey God as He has commanded.

Matthew 10:37-39
"37 He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. 38 And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it."

A Picture of Our Culture Today Perhaps?

Could this be a picture of our culture today?
And, it is also a picture of how the Lord responds to it.

Zechariah 7:8-13 "8 And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying,

9 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.

13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the Lord of hosts:"