Being a Christian is not becoming famous and having everybody talk about how great you are.

It's a place of rejection, a place where people will come against you.

Yes, and it's going to hurt you tremendously, but at the same time, my commitment, my dedication, my commitment to Jesus Christ,

because everything here is temporal. We're all going to die. But everything here is temporal.

We're all going to die, but what counts is eternity.

I am falling.

I am falling in love. I am falling in love. I am falling in love. I am falling in love with you.

Welcome to Somebody Lives Your Radio, the Bible teaching ministry of Roll Rees and Diamond Bar, California.

Thank you for joining us in our continuing Easter series.

Exploring Jesus' final interactions with his disciples,

Roll will illuminate what it means to fully surrender your life to Christ.

You have the choice to accept or reject Jesus' salvation, and this single decision has a far-reaching ripple effect. Stay with us to see that following Jesus means

setting aside your own agenda and walking a road of humble servanthood. Here's Roll Race

with today's teaching. If you have your Bible, turn with me to the book of Matthew chapter 16.

Matthew chapter 16.

It's been pretty amazing going story by story.

And now we're coming to that place where the Lord wants to reveal to his own disciples the glory of his coming.

And how do you explain to someone about the glory of heaven since we've never been there?

And at the same time in chapter 16, the Lord has in a way been preparing his disciples

as they've been following him.

In chapter 16 in the first four verses, he got in a little argument with the Pharisees and the

Sadducees because they were always looking for a sign from Christ.

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