To begin at the beginning which is ‘the way’ Yahshua said ‘if you seek to save your life (soul) you shall lose it, but if you lose your life (soul) for His sake you shall find it.’
This is a fairly gentle translation of what was actually said. The word ‘lose’ is more literally translated ‘destroy.’
Now Yahshua also says ‘take up your cross and follow me.’ I suppose a good question would
For those of you that actually choose the Cup and the baptism.
Ask and keep asking for the cup till you know in your heart that you’ve been heard and if you’ve been heard you will receive. You might even do a fast, consisting of ‘bread and grape juice.’ Whatever you do, do it with all your heart.
Are you able to drink of the cup? Are you able to to be baptized with the baptism of Yahshua? Do not answer within yourself too quickly for you do not know yet know what this is. To drink of this cup will catapult you into the most terrifying experience one could ever hope to endure.
To drink of this cup means that sooner or later you will experience the utter agony of the travail of
1. AFTER six days, when the Feast of Tabernacles was nigh at hand, Iesus taketh the twelve and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, and as he was praying the fashion of his countenance was changed, and he was transfigured before them, and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. 2. And, behold,
