Do you, do you really want to hear The Truth? Do you want to know it? Become intimate with it? Let it inside? Sometimes it's a hard truth you must hear  - it's hard to hear  - hard to accept   - like "Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in you". Here is another hard truth  - A house with a mortgage or even a car payment  - can prevent us from obeying the Call of God on our lives. When He commands us to GO! We stay. When He commands us to "Come, folllow Me", we srart making excuses within ourselves.  "I have a set of oxen to break in", "I just bought some land that needs plowing" -  "I just took a wife". This is one of the reasons He chose who He did to become His original Apostles   - we know Peter at least was married  - yet when God called him to follow  -  he dropped everything and obeyed. Same with the others  - they all left their old lives without hesitation  -  they left wives, children, jobs  - to follow Him  - but they gained an eternal family.  They birthed countless spiritual children  and the work they did for God's Kingdom reaped eternal rewards! How many of us, if Jesus walked by and said, simply, "Come, follow Me", how many of us would leave our homes, our families,  our jobs  - and follow Him?

For too many of us  - Babylon has caught us in it's web of deceit  - full of lies  - and we're stuck fast. We'll make all sorts of excuses as to why we're not obeying the call of God on our lives  - not the least of which is this  - we'll convince ourselves that going to our local church  of choice IS obeying God's call on our lives  - we convince ourselves  they are one and the same. Jesus never called a single disciple to sit in their local Synagogue   - He told them to go. 

And believe me  - your local pastor of choice will encourage this deciet  - that attending his church is obedience to God's will for your life. God may send you somewhere for a season   - but it's never the end of your walk of faith,  merely a rest stop on the highway of your life. 

So, tell me  - what's your excuse? What's holding you back from obeying God's command to "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature"? To baptize them and cast devils out of them? Every single man in Scripture,  who accomplished anything of consequence for God  - was led out of their homeland or place of comfort.  Every one. Are you greater than them? Are you exempt from the Biblical pattern? Will you forsake all to follow Him? Home and land? Car payment? Even wife and children? Who are you following? Christ or your pastor? Christ or your flesh? Are you seeking to pamper and preserve your flesh or are you laying it down on the altar of His will for you? What will your answer be? Lovest thou these more than Me, My child? What takes precedent over God in your life?