43. FORSAKING ALL        --page 345--

         So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be My disciple (Lk.14:33).

         1. This is God's first test to every disciple: To see if he loves Him enough to put Him first by forsaking all immediately to follow Him now! The Lord seems to make the entrance exams hardest of all!
         2. Once you have determined to serve the Lord, you can't lose--anything but your life!--Or maybe your wife or husband or children or mother or father or houses & lands or your money--but what is that in comparison to all He offers you?
         3. The Lord brings you out so He can bring you in.
         4. Don't remind yourself of your losses. Forget the past and live for today!
         5. The worst thing you can do is constantly remind yourself of what you've forsaken.
         6. A woman who was called to be a missionary but instead married a millionaire showed my Mother through her mansion & said sadly: "See all that I traded God for?"
         7. The more He gives you, the more you're going to have to forsake!
         8. You can't just "forsake all" once.--You've got to keep doing it every day!
         9. You have to keep leaving Egypt every day, or you're going to build up a new Egypt.
         10. If you keep forsaking more every day, the Lord is going to keep giving you back more.
         11. Forsaking all is not just something you do once & for all, you have to constantly be forsaking in your heart. Every day you're forsaking the Devil's voice & temptations to try to suck you back into the old ways & the old system!
         12. When you give everything to God, then He takes care of everything! But when you hold something back for yourself, then you must take care of it!
         13. Sometimes God makes you forsake a thing or lay it on the altar just to see if you're willing to forsake all to follow Him, when He intends to give it back to you--like Isaac.
         14. Don't hand me any of that stuff about "Then why did God give children to me, just to take them away again?" That's why He gives us everything, damn it!--Just to give back to Him for His Glory! If I hadn't given my children to God you wouldn't be here!
         15. Give to God as though you never expect to get it back.
         16. When He could trust me with them, God gave me back many things that I gave up for Him.
         17. People's pasts really have to be buried or they're apt to plague them later.
         18. If you don't keep forsaking every day, you keep accumulating everyday.
         19. How can you take something away from the man who's given up everything?
         20. You don't have to be rich to be attached to your riches. I knew a poor man who was attached to his shack, he loved & worshipped his little shack. He wasn't willing to give it up. You can even be a poor man & still trust in the little wealth you have. It's not how much you give that counts, it's how much you have left!
         21. You will never know the fullness of the joy of serving God to the utmost until you have forsaken all to follow Jesus Christ.
         22. You don't have to have very much to have "great" possessions. It only has to be just a little bit bigger than God in your eyes. It only has to keep you from serving God. It only has to be just enough to keep you from breaking loose & shaking loose & serving God.
         23. I don't understand how anybody can give God less than everything.
         24. Why can't we, the Family, make at least the same sacrifices for the Lord that soldiers & sailors & marines & businessmen make for their jobs & their work?
         25. When you consider that military men go away for months & years at a time to fight their nation's battles in far-off fields & even suffer injury, sickness, death & all kinds if dangers away from home & family just for the sake of patriotism or their country, or even the draft because they're forced to go, & businessmen spend most of their time away from home on the road or at the office, I'd like to know why some of our people are so reluctant to be willing to leave home & family & wife & children & forsake all, as many used to do readily & without second thought, to serve the Lord in this Family in extremely important & urgent work which can't be done at home or with their family but has to be done alone in the field?

         (See also No.B, F, S, 23, 34, 42, 203, 225, 251, 314A, 510, 542, 568, 641, 657, 673, 721, 727, 731, 778, 783, 880, 897, 1332, 1653.)

         26. PSA.45:10,11 Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty: for He is thy Lord; and worship thou Him.
         27. MAT.13:44 Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath and buyeth that field.
         28. MAT.16:25,26 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole World, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
         29. MAT.19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven.
         30. MAT.19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My Name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
         31. MAR.10:29,30 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My sake, and the Gospel's, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the World to come eternal life.
         32. LUK.12:33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the Heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
         33. LUK.14:33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be My disciple.
         34. PHI.3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.
         35. PHI.3:13,14 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
         36. HEB.11:27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing Him Who is invisible.



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