His Cross Is My Cross:

By AW Tozer

To take Jesus Christ into your life without reservation is to accept His friends as your friends and to know that His enemies will be your enemies!  It means that we accept His rejection as our rejection. We knowingly accept His cross as our cross. 

If you then find yourself in an area where Christ has no friends, you will be friendless except for the one Friend who will stick closer than a brother. 

I made up my mind a long time ago: those who declare themselves enemies of Jesus Christ must look upon me as their enemy, and I ask no quarter from them! 

And if they are friends of Christ they are my friends, and I do not care what colour they are or what denomination they belong to. 

If the preachers would faithfully tell the people what it actually means to receive Christ and obey Him and live for Him, we would have fewer converts backsliding and floundering. 

Preachers who are not faithful one day will stand before the judgment seat of Christ and answer to a faithful Saviour why they betrayed His people in this way!

The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

— Matthew 10:24