• Take a Cross and Follow with Greater Love than Love for Parents
• Take a Cross and Follow with Greater Love than Love for Children
• Take a Cross and Follow with Greater Love than Love for Personal Convenience

Receiving Can Have Its Eternal Rewards, Too

• Receiving a Disciple is Taken as Receiving the Messiah and His Message
• Receiving the Messiah and His Message is Taken as Receiving Father God and His Gift of Jesus
• Receive a Prophet for a Prophet’s Reward
• Receive a Righteous Man for a Righteous Man’s Reward
• Give a Cup of Cool, Liquid Kindness to Preserve God’s Reward.

“For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’ (cf. Micah 7:6) Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives the one who sent me.  Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and anyone who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward. And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward.”

Some of Save Receipts, and Some of Us Understand that Our Receipts Can Save Us.

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• NOT … a Gentle, Fragile River Weed
• NOT … a Dapper Dandy
• a Prophet … and MORE

After John’s messengers left, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: “What did you go out into the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear expensive clothes and indulge in luxury are in palaces. But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

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Was He …

• John the Baptist Resurrected after Herod’s Execution Order?
• Elijah Re-Embodied in Jesus?
• One of the Other Great Prophets Re-Embodied in Jesus?

Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was going on. And he was perplexed, because some were saying that John had been raised from the dead, others that Elijah had appeared, and still others that one of the prophets of long ago had come back to life.  But Herod said, “I beheaded John. Who, then, is this I hear such things about?” And he tried to see him.

The Truth about John’s Mission, Life, and Ministry was Even More Amazing than the Rumor-Claims, and the Truth about Jesus was– and IS– More Amazing Still

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He Fulfilled Prophecy Found in …

• Law of Moses
• Prophetic Writings
• Psalms

He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”

High Quality Journalism Calls for Multiple Lines of Corroborative, Verifiable, and Confirmed Information

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• NOT Messiah
• NOT Elijah
• NOT “the Prophet”

He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, “I am not the Christ.” They asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.” [...] Now some Pharisees who had been sent questioned him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” NIV

Knowing Who Someone Isn’t Can Help Us Know Better Who Someone Is

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