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way and achieve the results Yahweh has in mind. We have to yield to follow Christ wherever He
would lead us. The Scriptures reveal that the life of a disciple of Christ is synonymous with a Spirit
directed life.

Romans 8:14
For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Galatians 5:25
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

If you were introduced to Christ through the Christian religious system predominant in Western
nations, you most likely never heard the cost of discipleship accurately proclaimed. Western
Christianity allows the aspiring disciple to continue to reign as lord of their own life. They can choose
what job they want to work at and where they want to live. They remain in charge of how they spend
their money, with the possible exception of being instructed that ten percent should be given to the
church. The Western Christian is free to decide whether they marry, and whom they marry (as long
as it is another professing believer). Christianity becomes a religious experience which the convert
adds to their existing life, rather than a radical exchange of ownership and authority.

I Corinthians 6:19-20
Or do you not know... that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price...

I Corinthians 7:22-23
He who was called while free, is Christ's slave. You were bought with a price...

True Christian discipleship is characterized by a surrender of one’s will to the leading of the Spirit
of Christ. Where He says go, we must go. What He says do, we must do. Nothing can be held back.
Yahweh will root out every area of independence. He will bring us to consider any instance of reserve
where we have not accepted the cost of following in the footsteps of His Son.

Hebrews 10:36-39
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what
was promised. For yet in a very little while, He who is coming will come, and will not delay. But My
righteous one shall live by faith; And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him. But we are
not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.

Many Christians are unaware that they are shrinking back from a complete abandonment to the will
of God due to the fact that they have never been told that such a surrender is required of them. They
have ignorantly embraced the status quo; the lukewarm, insipid, unsavory form of Christianity that
is common in their culture. Perhaps you have embraced the Sunday and Wednesday form of
Christianity where you attend a couple weekly meetings at the church, listen to some preaching, and
are admonished to try to live a good life the rest of the week. This is not Christian discipleship. If you
are involved with a prosperity church that proclaims a message that God wants you to be materially
successful and comfortable in this life, you are most assuredly not walking as a disciple of Christ. If
you are involved with an apostolic or prophetic church that focuses on signs and wonders while
failing to proclaim a complete surrender of your will and life to the leading of the Holy Spirit, you
are not qualifying as a disciple of Yahshua.