Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart

Matthew 16:24, “Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.”

To deny the self means to disassociate ourself from it, to have no connection with it, to draw the line, declaring, “That is not me anymore. That is no longer my source. That old man has been crucified. I stand crucified with Christ.”

Objectively draw the line in this way and deny the self.

Utterly repudiate it.

Have no connection with it.

Do not identify with it.

With the same intensity that Peter had when he would not identify with the Lord, do not identify with your self.

Do not identify with its reactions of jealousy and envy.

Do not identify with its thoughts.

Draw the line between you and it.

Disassociate yourself from it, and deny it.

Do not let it live.

Do not even let it suffer.

Do not let it whine.

Do not let it pity itself.

Do not give it one moment of life.

Just deny it.

Terminate the self.

The cross means termination.

It does not mean a kind of suffering in which the self is still alive.

No, we can be rid of the self, done with the self, by terminating it in the realm of the Spirit.

It is crucial that we experience dealing with the self, because it really deals a blow to the enemy.

In the book of Job, the enemy is accusing, “Does Job fear God for nothing?”

In other words, “Is Job pure? Is he serving the Lord from a pure heart? Or is he serving for what the self can gain from it, for what benefits the self?”

Then all the dealings came in Job’s life.

And in those dealings the enemy was dealt with and the Lord’s testimony came forth.

Until Tomorrow

With A Shepherd’s Love,

Pastor Jackson

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