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Feeding the Sheep - Taking Up Your Cross

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' Then Yeshua was saying to everyone, “If anyone wants to follow Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross every day, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. “For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?" ' Luke 9:23-26 TLV [This is the  15th  message of this series] [ The Name Jesus in their language is Yeshua, t he TLV uses Yeshua in place of Jesus] This lesson is intended for mature believers (or adulting believers). For a more orderly study, please go through all the  previous messages   first, if you haven't yet. Adulting All new believers are going to have to grow up, and mature. They are going to have to go through a rebirth and outgrow their infancy and adolescence stage, and start walking as a fully mature believer in Christ. Galatians 6:9 " Let us not grow weary or  become discouraged in doing good, for at the proper time w

Pandemic Preaching - Affliction

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  "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.  If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.  And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort." -Apostle Paul, second letter to the early believers in Corinth 2 Corinthians 1: 3-7 The whole world is now entering the second year of living in a time of a pandemic. A few places have gone back to some semblance of pre-pandemic normalcy (and not really sure if we could ever go back to what was normal) but overall, today most peopl