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Vol. 1 Issue 26

Training To Die

Caesarea Philippi – If last week's revelation that Jesus sees himself as a suffering messiah came as a shock to his disciples, then this week we find that he has really given them something to think about. For the rabbi revealed that not only will he be put to death, but his followers must give up their lives as well. So radical was this requirement of discipleship that Jesus freed his disciples to chose whether to continue following him or to turn back.

Jesus had just finished discussing his own destiny with his disciples.

Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels." (Mark 8:34-38 NIV)

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