The Voice of God the Father says: "Leave your country, your kindred and your father's house..."
The Voice of God the Son says, "If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow Me."
The voice of Satan says: "All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me."
Genesis 12:1, Mark 8:34 and Matthew 4:9
"Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?" Matthew 16.26If people were aware of the extreme importance of the salvation of the soul, they would invest ALL OF THEIR LIVES in achieving and maintaining it. Such is its importance that the Lord God Himself says:What profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
"Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain." John 12.24
"...You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures." James 4.3Because of their fleshly nature, the children of the world ask and do not receive, since they ask to satisfy the flesh. But the children of God, when ask according to His will, receive.
"Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God." James 4.4The Holy Spirit considers all those who are friends with the world to be unfaithful. They are much more than unfaithful, they are considered as enemies of God, just as the devil and his demons.
"Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you." Genesis 12.1Abraham had to leave his land, his family and the position of leadership inherited from his father.God required him to sacrifice. And those who want to be sons and heirs of Abraham must pass the scrutiny of sacrificing this world. The Lord God must come before than nationality, relatives and our father's house.
"Depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!" Matthew 7.23
