Looked on His disciples – That they might all the more closely pay attention to what He was about to say. He knew that Peter was not alone in his failure to correctly comprehend Christ’s commission. Just because all men choose to walk a different path than what God requires doesn’t mean the God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will change His standards to accommodate them. Man-made kingdoms may modify their laws when all fail to comply. He is God, we aren’t; we get heaven God’s way, not ours. Generality in sins is no means by which to escape God’s judgment. Remember the account regarding Noah as recorded in the Al Kitab ul Muqaddas. God does not change and although He desires that all should be saved, the wicked, as defined by His standard which is revealed in the Injil, will be punished unless they repent and comply with His commands.
8:34 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.
8:35 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.
8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
8:37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
“Martyr” yourself on the word of some Imam and you will be trapped forever in the abode of the jinn with no way to escape. The One True God, the God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is the God who loves and does not deceive. It is the god of death who deceives and destroys.
8:38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me (Messiah Jesus) and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
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