Passover feast and other laws: Deuteronomy 16:1-17:20
I’ll take 5 loaves and 2 fishes…can you put that in 5,000 To-Go boxes? Luke 9:7-27
His enemies will like the dust: Psalm 72:1-20
A man is praised according to his wisdom: Proverbs 12:8-9
Whew! Reading today’s passage from Luke is not for the faint of heart.
Verse 23-26 has:
Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
It doesn’t get much plainer than that. People, we got to quit putting ourselves first. Only God has that position. We have to put him first and worry about ourselves later – when God will take care of us better than we can take care of ourselves anyway.
Yes. considering what Jesus requires of us in terms of obedience should cause us to truly examine ourselves towards humility, crying out to him every single day so that we can do what he requires of us... but what a great gain of salvation he has for us!
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