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Glory be to God! Welcome everyone to Episode #693, Season 7.
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π₯ Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort: Are you living to be found worthy of the Kingdom of God, to spend eternity with the Lord Jesus Christ? Or are you living to please your flesh and be partakers of the "world's delicacies" (aka, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life) which flies in the face of holy God?
We all have to do some self-examination to make sure we are fit for the Kingdom - to stand before Jesus Christ without shame or blame! Paulβs whole thrust in life (as it should be ours) was to conduct himself in a manner worthy of the gospel: β According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain" (Philippians 1:20β21). Amen!
Beloved, Christ Jesus was very succinct that discipleship is costly; it will cost you everything to follow Him! And if you think being His disciple, His follower is going to be a cakewalk, a skate in the park, whereby you don't have to put that flesh under subjection... then you have been deceptively deceived "by the cunning and trickery of [unscrupulous] men, by the deceitful scheming of people ready to do anything [for personal profit" (study Ephesians 4:14)!
The hour is late my friend and the curtain is about to close on humanity. "For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory and majesty of His Father with His angels, and then He will repay each one in accordance with what he has done" (Matthew 16:27). The Lord Jesus commands us, βIf any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."
Let us all be found worthy to enter the Kingdom of God, having overcome the "world" by adhering faithfully to Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior! (Study Revelation 21:7).
Amen! π― REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!