![]() ![]() ![]() Our Lord makes a disciple His own possession, He becomes responsible for him. This does not mean I will not be saved, but it does mean that I cannot be “His.” ![]() I may prefer to belong to my mother, or to my wife, or to myself then says Jesus, you cannot be My disciple. “If any man come to me and hate not…, he cannot be My disciple,” not - he cannot be good and upright, but - he cannot be one over whom Jesus writes the word “Mine.” Any one of the relationships Our Lord mentions may be a competitive relationship. It was not until after the Resurrection, when the disciples had perceived by the power of the Holy Spirit Whom He was, that Jesus said “Go.” Our Lord never sent any of the disciples out on the ground of what He had done for them. The Holy Spirit expounds the nature of Jesus to me in order to make me one with my Lord, not that I might go off as a showroom exhibit. ![]() The true nature of the life in the actual whirl is the deliberate giving up of myself to another in sovereign preference, and that other is Jesus Christ. The missionary is one in whom the Holy Ghost has wrought this realization - “Ye are not your own.” To say “I am not my own,” is to have reached a great point in spiritual nobility. ![]()
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