{"id":14504,"date":"2016-06-16T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=14504"},"modified":"2016-06-16T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T14:00:30","slug":"will-you-lay-down-your-life-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=14504","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWill You Lay Down Your Life?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"555\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gE3oYiN_7K8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one\u2019s life for his friends\u2026.I have called you friends\u2026 \u2014John 15:13, 15<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jesus does not ask me to die for Him, but to lay down my life for Him. Peter said to the Lord, \u201cI will lay down my life for Your sake,\u201d and he meant it (John 13:37). He had a magnificent sense of the heroic. For us to be incapable of making this same statement Peter made would be a bad thing\u2014 our sense of duty is only fully realized through our sense of heroism. Has the Lord ever asked you, \u201cWill you lay down your life for My sake?\u201d (John 13:38). It is much easier to die than to lay down your life day in and day out with the sense of the high calling of God. We are not made for the bright-shining moments of life, but we have to walk in the light of them in our everyday ways. There was only one bright-shining moment in the life of Jesus, and that was on the Mount of Transfiguration. It was there that He emptied Himself of His glory for the second time, and then came down into the demon-possessed valley (seeMark 9:1-29). For thirty-three years Jesus laid down His life to do the will of His Father. \u201cBy this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren\u201d (1 John 3:16). Yet it is contrary to our human nature to do so.<\/p>\n<p>If I am a friend of Jesus, I must deliberately and carefully lay down my life for Him. It is a difficult thing to do, and thank God that it is. Salvation is easy for us, because it cost God so much. But the exhibiting of salvation in my life is difficult. God saves a person, fills him with the Holy Spirit, and then says, in effect, \u201cNow you work it out in your life, and be faithful to Me, even though the nature of everything around you is to cause you to be unfaithful.\u201d And Jesus says to us, \u201c\u2026I have called you friends\u2026.\u201d Remain faithful to your Friend, and remember that His honor is at stake in your bodily life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one\u2019s life for his friends\u2026.I have called you friends\u2026 \u2014John 15:13, 15 Jesus does not ask me to die for Him, but to lay down my life for Him. Peter said to the Lord, \u201cI will lay down my life for Your sake,\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14507,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504\/revisions\/14507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}