Embracing God's Will: The Path to True Discipleship
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"I came from heaven to deny my own will, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. He came from heaven to spend his whole life on earth saying no to his own will and yes to the will of the Father. What does that teach us? That means as a human being he had his own will and that had to be denied. That's the meaning of picking up the cross where man's will crosses God's will." [00:00:59]
"Jesus was a great master at reducing the size of his congregation, like Gideon's army thirty-two thousand reduced to three hundred. And God has always accomplished his purposes with a few. Jesus spent all his earthly life training eleven people, and here we see how this great multitude was whittled down, and many of his disciples left in verse sixty. Many, when they heard this, they said this is a difficult statement." [00:03:14]
"Jesus spoke about the cross in chapter 6. He said about eating his flesh and drinking his blood. You know what that means? Flesh and blood speak about the dying of Jesus, and he was saying you gotta die with me. That's not the message commonly preached today. Today people have told Jesus will bless you, he'll heal you, he'll make you rich, he'll take you to heaven. How many want to come? Everybody wants to come." [00:04:45]
"There's only one mark of God's blessing upon you, and that is that you are becoming more and more like Jesus Christ in your character. If that's happening, God is blessing you; otherwise, God is not. You know, when people say, oh brother, God has blessed my... I was a very poor brother, and I became a full-time worker, but now God has blessed my children." [00:06:10]
"Why is it you're a popular preacher? Because you don't tell people about their sin. And Jesus says, why am I unpopular? Because I testify that their works are evil. I expose their sin, I expose their wrong motives, I expose their love of money, I expose their adulterous thoughts, I expose their greed, that jealousy, their fooling around with girls and women. I expose that, and I'm not gonna tolerate any of that, and they hate me." [00:08:37]
"Jesus always had compassion on people who had sins. I never see Jesus criticizing murders, thieves, drunkards, women caught in adultery, or any such thing. I see him criticizing Pharisees who thought they were holy. I see him criticizing hypocrites. I see him saying that the hypocrites will go to hell, and the woman who caught in adultery, he says I know you did something wrong, but I don't condemn you." [00:13:41]
"True fruitfulness in life and ministry comes from embracing the way of the cross—dying to our own desires and living for God's glory. This is illustrated in the narrative of Lazarus and the grain of wheat, where God's power is perfected in our weakness. You have to come to a zero point. You have to come to an end of yourself." [00:27:14]
"Do you want to learn how to be fruitful in your life? Guaranteed fruitfulness. There's one secret of fruitfulness, and that is fall into the ground and die as a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies. If it does not die, it will be alone. If it dies, it will bring forth not just fruit but much fruit." [00:27:14]
"Choose the way of the Cross, give up your own will. You know, it's possible to acquire a lot of knowledge in the Christian life and not die. Knowledge will not bring forth fruit. If you die, you'll bring forth fruit. Some people think if I'm filled in the spirit, that's enough. No, that's not enough. It's good for the rain to fall, but if there's no seed that's dying there, any amount of rain is not going to produce a crop." [00:29:21]
"Jesus dull Pilate My Kingdom is not of this world if my kingdom were of this world My servants would fight remember every time you fight you are proving that your kingdom belongs to this world all believers who fight with other believers are saying my kingdom belongs to this world the mark of a man who is following Jesus and whose kingdom does not belong to this world that he is that he doesn't fight for anything be a person like that." [00:51:06]
"Jesus said you do not have power to release me or crucify me unless my father gives it to you that was the dignity Jesus had and Pilate got scared says as a result of this Pilate worst well tried to release him this judge this magistrate was telling him don't you know I've got power to release your crucify you and Jesus stood very calmly there and said he didn't say please please please release me he stood there with the dignity of the Son of God." [00:52:59]
"Peter said Lord what about this man John is he going to suffer and die and Jesus said that's none of your business and sometimes we need to hear that word when the Lord tells us you're going to have a difficult time in your ministry and you say Lord what about that brother he's having an easy time what's the answer that is none of your business you follow me you follow that word and you'll be all right." [00:56:56]
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"Jesus was a great master at reducing the size of his congregation, like Gideon's army thirty-two thousand reduced to three hundred. And God has always accomplished his purposes with a few. Jesus spent all his earthly life training eleven people, and here we see how this great multitude was whittled down, and many of his disciples left in verse sixty. Many, when they heard this, they said this is a difficult statement." [00:03:14]
"Jesus spoke about the cross in chapter 6. He said about eating his flesh and drinking his blood. You know what that means? Flesh and blood speak about the dying of Jesus, and he was saying you gotta die with me. That's not the message commonly preached today. Today people have told Jesus will bless you, he'll heal you, he'll make you rich, he'll take you to heaven. How many want to come? Everybody wants to come." [00:04:45]
"There's only one mark of God's blessing upon you, and that is that you are becoming more and more like Jesus Christ in your character. If that's happening, God is blessing you; otherwise, God is not. You know, when people say, oh brother, God has blessed my... I was a very poor brother, and I became a full-time worker, but now God has blessed my children." [00:06:10]
"Why is it you're a popular preacher? Because you don't tell people about their sin. And Jesus says, why am I unpopular? Because I testify that their works are evil. I expose their sin, I expose their wrong motives, I expose their love of money, I expose their adulterous thoughts, I expose their greed, that jealousy, their fooling around with girls and women. I expose that, and I'm not gonna tolerate any of that, and they hate me." [00:08:37]
"Jesus always had compassion on people who had sins. I never see Jesus criticizing murders, thieves, drunkards, women caught in adultery, or any such thing. I see him criticizing Pharisees who thought they were holy. I see him criticizing hypocrites. I see him saying that the hypocrites will go to hell, and the woman who caught in adultery, he says I know you did something wrong, but I don't condemn you." [00:13:41]
"True fruitfulness in life and ministry comes from embracing the way of the cross—dying to our own desires and living for God's glory. This is illustrated in the narrative of Lazarus and the grain of wheat, where God's power is perfected in our weakness. You have to come to a zero point. You have to come to an end of yourself." [00:27:14]
"Do you want to learn how to be fruitful in your life? Guaranteed fruitfulness. There's one secret of fruitfulness, and that is fall into the ground and die as a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies. If it does not die, it will be alone. If it dies, it will bring forth not just fruit but much fruit." [00:27:14]
"Choose the way of the Cross, give up your own will. You know, it's possible to acquire a lot of knowledge in the Christian life and not die. Knowledge will not bring forth fruit. If you die, you'll bring forth fruit. Some people think if I'm filled in the spirit, that's enough. No, that's not enough. It's good for the rain to fall, but if there's no seed that's dying there, any amount of rain is not going to produce a crop." [00:29:21]
"Jesus dull Pilate My Kingdom is not of this world if my kingdom were of this world My servants would fight remember every time you fight you are proving that your kingdom belongs to this world all believers who fight with other believers are saying my kingdom belongs to this world the mark of a man who is following Jesus and whose kingdom does not belong to this world that he is that he doesn't fight for anything be a person like that." [00:51:06]
"Jesus said you do not have power to release me or crucify me unless my father gives it to you that was the dignity Jesus had and Pilate got scared says as a result of this Pilate worst well tried to release him this judge this magistrate was telling him don't you know I've got power to release your crucify you and Jesus stood very calmly there and said he didn't say please please please release me he stood there with the dignity of the Son of God." [00:52:59]
"Peter said Lord what about this man John is he going to suffer and die and Jesus said that's none of your business and sometimes we need to hear that word when the Lord tells us you're going to have a difficult time in your ministry and you say Lord what about that brother he's having an easy time what's the answer that is none of your business you follow me you follow that word and you'll be all right." [00:56:56]
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