One Thing You Lack (Compilation) — Compilations

The Secrets of the Kingdom and the Suffering of the Son of Man

The knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom of God have been given to you. But to others it comes by means of parables, so they may look but not see, and listen but not understand. The son of man must suffer much and be rejected.

The Resurrection and the Cost of Kingdom Service

He will be put to death, but three days later will be raised to life. Anyone who starts to plow and then keeps looking back is of no use for the Kingdom of God. If anyone wants to come with me, he must forget himself.

Daily Self-Denial and Following Jesus

Take this cross every day and follow me. For whoever would save his own life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for mine.

Total and Unqualified Dependence on Christ

If you give up all that you have, shouldn't we have some cushion, some condition, something that will not make us utterly, totally, abandonedly dependent on Him? Exactly. That total and unqualified increasingly and totally and finally and there is an actual place of entry.

Leaving Possessions and Relationships for the Kingdom

Have you for His sake left all? For the Kingdom's sake? Or maybe I've got to put the question another way. For whose sake have you not left all? For whose sake have you not sold all? For whose sake have you not...

Sacrificial Discipleship and Persecution

Houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and so much from the world. Why do they find something growing in them that is an irritation and vexation with you? It scandalizes them. Persuade themselves that they're wholly given to God and look what they're tithing and look what they're donating and look how they open their homes to meetings and look how often they attend the youth and all the fight.

Angers and irritates them. If you have not experienced persecution, it is ipso facto evidence already.

That you are living beneath the King that came and stood before you.