Luk_14:33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you
that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
Option.
1. Jesus is telling the truth
2. Jesus is exagerrating
Most believers will pick option 2 and go on living as they live without the slightest fear.
Luk_21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Option
1. Amen!
2. His words were in a different dispensation so this cannot be true.
Joh_14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Is it a mere coincidence that Jesus commands His followers to forsake all things...and that is what the early believers did as recorded in Acts????
Could the first commandment to love God with ALL we are and have mean to forsake ALL as well for the sake of Christ and the kingdom?
Or could this be covered in the new commandment to love our brother AS JESUS did?
Eph_4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Surely this unity is not achieved by happenstance. There is a price to pay. This unity is certainly further down the narrow way ...but yet the church actually began in this unity. We see in Acts what the church is supposed to look like. We need to find the way back to this.
Act 4:32 And
the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
We begin with a perfect unity and we must again finish with that unity. We begin in the Spirit, we must also finish in the Spirit.