Jesus uses the image of fire to describe the demands of discipleship.
The baptism with which He must be baptized is His passion and death, by which He accomplished our redemption and sent forth the fire of the Spirit on the earth
We must examine our consciences and our actions, submitting ourselves to the revaling fire of God’s Word
we have not yet resisted to the point of shedding our own blood, Paul tells us
We have not undergone the suffering that Jeremiah suffers
To be a disciple is to be inflamed with the love of the God.
Being His disciple does not bring peace in the false way that the world proclaims peace
It may bring us to conflict with our own flesh and blood.
Christ is our peace (see Ephesians 2:14). By his cross, he has lifted us up from the mire of sin and death
