"When the blessed spirit of wisdom and revelation from God opens our eyes to comprehend the great truth of our spiritual beheading, we will have found the key to the very life of Christ. It refers to those who live as martyrs! A martyr’s grave was very often but a release from persecution, an easy way out. Martyrdom in the spiritual sense does not mean a violent, untimely death. The way into glory is through death; death to self, death to the flesh, death to the world, death to the carnal mind, death to the Adamic consciousness, death to the ego, death to our own way and will, death to the religious spirit — living the crucified life! It is the death process within us that removes from us all that is not of God."
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“In the natural medical realm of transplanting organs, one of the great problems that they face is that of REJECTION — the body rebels against the new organ, and in doing so would actually destroy itself, but it needs that new organ to sustain its life. The body says, ‘I don’t want it, it is foreign to me,’ and if they cannot end this rejection, death will ensue. Jesus said, ‘If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it’ (Lk. 9:23-24). "
"That’s the key — we have to be beheaded! John the Baptist came on the scene first proclaiming this message of the kingdom and his very first word was “Repent!” The word repent means a whole lot more than just changing our mind about a thing, or re-thinking things. The Greek word means the taking of a new mind and in order to do this we must be beheaded. Cut off the old head! The old head that contains Adam’s thought processes. The thinking of the carnal mind is perverted, erroneous, twisted, distorted, stupid, and insane, because that old head contains upon it the mark of the beast. It is a bestial mind! The mark of the beast is not something that comes to you, to Adam’s head — the carnal mind is already marked with it! John the Baptist knew that. Jesus knew that. They said, “Change your head…get a new head…repent! Lose the old head, cut it off, be beheaded — repent!”
Ahhh. Put on the 'new' man.