The Call To Selflessness

By

The Twelve Apostles

The Call To Selflessness
The news soon spread that Jesus and the twelve were come, and many people came to see and meet them. And Jesus said, “Behold, you come to see, but that means nothing. If you would have the benedictions of the Christ, take up your cross and follow me. If you would give your life for selfish ambitions, then you shall lose your life. If you will give your life in service of your fellow children of God, then you will save your life.

“This life is but a span, for a period of time, an ornament of today.

There is a life that lasts forever.
What is your profit if you gain the whole world and lose your soul?

What would you take in payment for your soul?
If you would find the spirit life, the life of God in man, and God as man, then you must walk a narrow way and enter through a narrow gate. The way is Christ, the gate is Christ, and you must come up by the way of Christ. No man comes unto God but by the Christ. The kingdom of the Christ will come. Yes, some of you who hear me now will not pass through the gates of death, until you see the kingdom come in power.”

The statement above gives you a better explanation of the following:

"If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His Angels, and then He will reward each according to his works. Therefore, whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father and His Angels in heaven.”