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A critical matter is revealed when one understands the criteria for being a disciple. Yahshua spelled
out the qualifications for being His disciple so that no one would be in doubt.

Luke 14:26-27
“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and
brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. Whoever does not carry
his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.”

Luke 14:33
So then, any of you who does not forsake (renounce, surrender claim to, give up, say good-bye to)
all that he has cannot be My disciple.
[Amplified Bible]

Being a disciple is a costly proposition. A man or woman must yield the control of their life to
Christ. They must agree to go where He says go, and to do what He says do. They cannot claim
anything in this world as their own. All they possess, their very life, must be placed in the hands of
God for Him to determine what to do with it.

It was men and women who had embraced the cost of discipleship that He took aside to explain to
them the mysteries of His kingdom. It is such men and women who continue to be granted access
to God’s most holy things today.

It has ever been a remnant who have heeded the invitation to “Come, take up your cross, and follow
Me.” These are accounted as true disciples. To such ones the Bible is a rich banquet. They are given
permission to eat from a table of truth and divine mysteries that is restricted to others.

Hebrews 13:9-10
Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened
by grace, not by foods, through which those who were thus occupied were not benefitted. We have