2. To Die is The Way to Live.
Someone come across some fire in a deep forest and was about to die.
After thinking long, he set fire at the very place where he was stood.
The fire started to spread out further field, he jumped into the burnt ground and save his life. Like this, to give yourself up is the way to live, to deny yourself is the way to make others and yourself live. Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. “Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds”. Like his saying, to fall to the ground and die is the way to harvest tens, hundreds times of fruits.
All the fruits of sins came from self-centered thoughts. Jesus denied himself. He even died on the cross but was resurrected and forgave and gave eternal life to whoever believe him. To surrender yourself to God is truly the way of victory.
