What is a True Disciple?

Hey there all i just first off wanna say hi to all of you. So i found this video of a clip from a sermon from a guy overseas and it really moved me. The things that i take so for granted, and the things that i am. And how there is a God who just wants me to worship him with everything i have, leaving everything else behind. So i really wanted to share the message with you guys so i typed it bless you all and may God change our lives never leaving us the same. May we come to realize that he is our very sustenance. We have a special stewardship from God..We must be holy. It wont take just five minutes..it will take our whole lives..and all of it. Love you all my brothers and sisters!!!

What is a True Disciple?
“And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." (Mark 8:34) For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospel’s, the same shall save it. What does it mean to be a disciple of Christ? When you read the New Testament, you see that when people received Jesus, there was a cost; there was a price that had to be paid; there was a walk, which would be painful, requiring death to the flesh. But this is a necessary process. It is a hard way, it is a narrow way, and it is a way, which will lead to persecution for those who desire to live in the fear of the Lord. It involves death to the self. But it is a death, which is a sign of your love for God. We want to receive Him, but we don't want to give to Him. We want to enjoy Him, but we don’t want to suffer for Him. The spirit is dwelling among us. We want to come and receive, but we don't want to come and lay down our lives and sacrifice ourselves. And when it comes to the hard way, where you are to pay a price, where you are to sweat a little, bleed a little, then you run away. You desire not. God is calling on a generation, who will suffer, who will bleed, and who will walk all the way. "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"(Mark 8:36) What good does it do for you to receive all these things? What good does it do for you to attain all this esteem and all this so called success? What good does it do, if you end up losing your life? Compared to the life which is coming- if you win it- the life which is now is of no value...Compared to the life, which is coming. It’s of no value. It is therefore a deadly poison, when the church replaces the Cross of Christ with seven steps to a better life. I want to give you just one step tonight: Die, Die to yourself! Lay down what is of yourself. Christ is calling you to be a follower of Him.. Someone who will give it all. Someone who will say: it’s not about me; it’s about your name. It's about your name being glorified and exalted through my life, no matter what it may cost me. Being a disciple if Christ means that everything in our lives reflects a perspective of eternity. Everything in our lives reflects the perspective that there is a life which is coming after this life. And we are motivated by this life. The only hope we have with regards to eternity, is what happened 2000 years ago, when He hung on that tree, naked and humiliated, beaten and bleeding. Dear friends, there are great consequences for not having this perspective. There are great consequences for saying: well, I'm just living my own life, and I want to live it in a way that makes me feel good. There are great consequences for not understanding what this is all about. Not having a strong, daily awareness about living for Christ and understanding what He did for us on that cross. The cross of Christ should be the very foundation of our lives; our all consuming passion and motivation- That which drives us; the very power, which causes us to live. If you desire to be a disciple of Christ, you must have the power of the Gospel in your life every day of your life. You must be aware of what Christ did 2000 years ago. Not just the story you heard back then, when you received Jesus. But it is something which is alive to you- where it is so real to you it's as if He died yesterday. And it moves you just as much as if He had. It must move us every single day. It must be a living reality to us every single day. This is where the power is. The power is in the Gospel. The Gospel is the power of God for those who believe. It is a power, which causes your heart and your thoughts to be drawn towards eternity, rather than the things of this world. The Gospel is the power of God for those who believe. This means, it is God's power for us as Christians, because by definition, we are those who believe. The Gospel is God's power for us every day of our lives. And as followers of Christ, this power must be working in us, so that we can keep our hearts and minds focuses on that day when we will stand before Him. "For consider him", says Hebrews 12:3, "that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds." Consider Him! Keep your focus on him. Let it be Christ in the morning, in the afternoon, and in the evening, and all through the night. Is He everything to you? Does He fill your thoughts? Does He fill your heart?