“TOTALLY Identify with Jesus”

 “TOTALLY Identify with Jesus”

 

If you hang on to your life, you will lose it.  But if you give up your life for My sake, you will save it.  And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?  Is anything worth more than your soul?   Matthew 16:25-26

 

Jesus was talking to His Disciples (followers), and He said to them “If any of you wants to be My FOLLOWER, you MUST give up your OWN way, take up your cross and FOLLOW ME.”

 

Then He told them If you HANG ON to your life, you will LOSE it.  Basically, what He was saying was, if you are NOT WILLING to TOTALLY TURN AWAY FROM your OLD WAYS and want to try and incorporate them in with His ways of LIVING, you WILL LOSE EVERYTHING.  BUT, if you GIVE UP YOUR old SINFUL WAYS and start LIVING for HIM, you WILL SAVE your life.  

 

And just what would you BENEFIT IF you GAIN the WHOLE WORLD, but LOSE your OWN SOUL?  You CAN’T have it BOTH WAYS.  You MUST DENY your OLD LIFESTYLE, and TOTALLY IDENTIFY with JESUS, God’s ONLY SON, OUR REDEEMER, KING and JUDGE.  The ONE and ONLY ONE who has the POWER to TAKE AWAY mankind’s SINS and GIVE them ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN.   Then Jesus asks: “Is ANYTHING worth MORE than your SOUL?”

 

In order to become a FOLLOWER of the LORD JESUS CHRIST and REAP the BENEFITS of your FAITHFULNESS to Him and HIM ALONE, You MUST TOTALLY IDENTIFY with JESUS, and GIVE UP your OWN WAYS, and TAKE UP your CROSS and FOLLOW HIM.  DON’T MISS OUT on ETERNAL SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS for TEMPORAL WORLDLY THINGS.  

 

At the Second Coming of the LORD JESUS CHRIST, He will REPAY EVERYONE of His FOLLOWERS according to their DEEDS.  Are you READY?  If you areTRULY SAVED and having a HARD time with GIVING UP some of your OLD WAYS, you NEED to make it a PRIORITY to DENY YOUR OLD LIFESTYLE and TOTALLY IDENTIFY with JESUS.   Make it a MATTER of PRAYER, seeking GOD’S HELP. 

 

If you are NOT a follower of the LORD JESUS CHRIST, you can be by:  ADMITTING that YOU are a SINNER in NEED of the SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST.  And you MUST BELIEVE, with ALL your HEART, that JESUS DIED for YOU, and that He is ALIVE in HEAVEN, making intercession for you, before God.  You MUST CONFESS your SINS to Him and ask Him for His FORGIVENESS.  You must be WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM your SINFUL LIFESTYLE and TURN to GOD with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  You MUST ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION and BECOME a FOLLOWER of JESUS CHRIST and TOTALLY IDENTIFY with JESUS. And spend your ETERNITY in HEAVEN with ALL its BLESSINGS.  And ESCAPE an ETERNITY in HELL with ALL its HORRORS and NO WAY to ESCAPE once you are there.  Do this NOW, while you STILL can! He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!  Don’t be LEFT BEHIND!!!