| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
LUK 9:24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever
will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
LUK 9:25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and
lose himself, or be cast away?
LUK 9:26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him
shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory,
and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
LUK 9:27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which
shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
LUK 9:28 And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: life shall be grievous unto him.
ISA 15:5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto
Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith
with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall
raise up a cry of destruction.
ISA 15:6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is
withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
ISA 15:7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they
have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
ISA 15:8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the
howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.
SA2 15:1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him
chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
SA2 15:2 And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the
gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to
the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what
city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of
Israel.
SA2 15:3 And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and
right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
SA2 15:4 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land,
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