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Then the Lord added, "And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:27). There has not only to be the hatred of self, but the end of self, if we are to be true disciples of the Son of God. Do we not see this exemplified in the Apostle Paul where he writes, "Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake"? (2 Cor. 4:10-11). The true disciple is content to share the place the world has given to his Lord, even as Paul wrote, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me" (Gal. 2:20).