The cost of living a righteous life in a sinful world : part 1
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Yes !
Every second you chose to live righteously it will definately cost you a thing .
You will lose something to the world
Because you are spending and pouring out from withing yourself .

If it doesn't cost you a thing then you don't have it .
You can't buy a thing if you don't spend money
You can't buy away evil from the world if you don't spend out the righteousness deposited in your spirit by God .

Every time you chose to live righteously you will lose something
(either materially , psychologically or even spiritually )
but at the end of it all you will gain glory .

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Whoever desire to come after me let him take up his cross and follow me .

To where ?

To Calvary

To do what there ?

To die with me

But I though you are the one who was said to have died for me ?

Yes I did died for you
But the death will become yours when you are baptized with the same baptism that I was baptized with

What baptism ?

The baptism of death

This means ?

I died in the flesh for you ,and gave you the certificate of death in the person of the holy spirit

You are to present the certificate when it is required by demonstrating my death in you body .

For it is written
2 Corinthians 4:10-11
[10]always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
[11]For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.