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This would make anybody say say, "Gee, I don’t know, it seems to me like religion ought to do you some good and not cause suffering and hardship." Jesus said, "No, it is going to cost you." Jesus said, You cannot be My disciple except you deny yourself. You have to reject what you want. Take up your cross daily and follow Me, Jesus said. He said it is going to cost you. It is going to cost you to follow Christ.
But see, that is the proof that the Holy Spirit has hold of a person's life. You can kick, and fight, and deny Him, and try to get away from Him, and rebel against it, and say, "I don’t want to do it!" But if you are born of the Spirit of God and filled with the Holy Spirit you cannot get away. You can't.
