Uh huh. Okay. And, um, just so I know, what is it exactly that the Lord is doing through your life, that is coming from your absolutely fantastic "self sacrifice"? I'd really like to know. Because, for knowing that God my Father is FOR ME and not AGAINST ME, I have had countless things done through my life, FREELY, by His grace, not because I'm so adept at "self sacrifice".
So really, fill me in, let me know about the far-reaching ABUNDANT FRUIT that Christ GUARANTEED to come through our lives, that you find in your life, solely because of your fantastic self-sacrifice....
Based upon your respnse to me and others posting here, you seem to be here to start an argument, not discuss.
The ABUNDANT FRUIT that Christ GUARANTEED is much along the lines of the fruit that came through his life.
Christ would not expect you to obtain/bear fruit that was different from that of his early followers and himself.
Their fruits were not material at all..
What about the believers who were tortured and thrown to lions or hid in caves and holes in the ground, hiding from those who persecuted them? What about those who were sawn in two, and imprisoned because of their faith and refusal to deny the Christ who indwelled them?
Believers of the first few centuries, contrary to how "holy" you may think your life is, completely understood what it meant to be a disciple of Christ. They knew what it meant to "die daily." We have no understanding of those words.
So, please, compare your great "blessings" that you claim to have because "God is for you" and forget what the writer of Hebrews said about those who denied themselves to the point of death, that "the world was not worthy of them."
Can the same be said about you or I?