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every day and carry our own cross. proclamation, they immediately began
to think as free men? Undoubtedly they
“PUTTING OFF THE OLD MAN AND still tended to act as slaves because they
PUTTING ON THE NEW MAN IS ONGOING!” had developed habit patterns of slavery.
We get better at it as we grow in the Lord
and obey His Word! We grow in holiness In a similar manner Christians tend to sin
as long as we keep on fighting the good out of habit. It is our habit to look out for
fight! We must keep the old man cruci- ourselves instead of others, to retaliate
fied daily! We will do this until we go home when injured some way, and to indulge
with the Lord, and we can only do this with the appetites of our bodies. IT’S OUR
help from our helper the HOLY SPIRIT. HABIT TO LIVE FOR OURSELVES AND NOT
GOD. When we become Christians, we do
SLAVE TO SIN MENTALITY not drop all this overnight. In fact we will
Do you suppose that when the slaves were spend the rest of our lives putting off these
freed by President Lincoln’s emancipation habits and putting on habits of holiness.

Paradox Needed To Be Explained

(LUKE 14:25-26) Large to end many lives just
crowds were traveling with to follow false leaders.
Jesus, and turning to them If you encounter any lead-
he said: “If anyone comes er, whether religious, secu-
to me and does not HATE lar or political, who demands
father and mother, wife absolute loyalty to follow him,
and children, brothers and like literally leaving your loved
sisters— y es, ones behind and hating them,
EVEN THEIR OWN leave as fast as you can from
LIFE—such a person cannot him and stay away from that
be my disciple. man whoever he is. Have
nothing to do with that leader
(Matthew 10:37) “He who because that person is a WOLF.
loves his father or moth- That person is a false leader.
er more than Me is not worthy of Me; Denounce that man whoever he is. He will
and he who loves his son or daughter just make a sucker out of you. Even if that
more than Me is not worthy of Me leader performs miracles in your midst.

This is a nerve wrecking statement No one can demand absolute loyalty but
from the Lord Jesus Christ. Anyone God alone and if Jesus is not God, then He
that hears these statements will be will not utter such shocking statements.
shocked. But this is another paradox that There are a lot of cultic religious leaders
needs sound explanation with warning that uses the name of Jesus but teaches
because many cultic religious leaders will that Jesus is only a man and not God yet
use these verse to manipulate people. they demand absolute loyalty from people.
They brain wash their subjects to become
fanatics who will most likely cause People get sucked in to their doctrines
because most people don’t read the Bible
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