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NASB | Luke 9:23 ¶ And He was saying to them all, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 9:23 ¶ And He was saying to them all, "If anyone wishes to follow Me [as My disciple], he must deny himself [set aside selfish interests], and take up his cross daily [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and follow Me [believing in Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me]. |
Subject: Can one be christian and NOT a disciple? |
Bible Note: When we ask Jesus to come into our heart and are born again by His Spirit, we are "Christian." As we yeild our as Paul said "members?" we die to our own will and ways and flesh and the world and pride and we are yeilded to HIS Spirit, and in HIS word...HIS word in us,, the fire of HIS Spirit IN US causes us to then be deciples of others. When we just take a Bible as instructed, or share scripture as we are religiously taught, we have a tendency to antagonize not spiritualize the blind out in the world. ONLY when the HOLY SPIRIT draws us do we become deciples and reach out to the world. We can be Christian, never really participate in study, never yeild our members, and never really produce fruit for the kingdom and our reward will be little in Heaven but we will still have our names written in the lambs book,,,we always need to remember, to yeild so we can be effective for the kingdom of God as the coming of the Lord approaches, for Jesus commissioned his twelve but they all did not go, Samson fell but he is in Heaven just as the thief on the cross thanks be to God's mercy...What we ought to be depends on how we yeild. I hope that helps because the Holy Spirit does not force us to deal with the sins of our flesh, the pride of life, the world that draws us away from serving the king of kings, and the choice is always going to be for us to YEILD to the kingdom. amen? |