so have they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” (Matthew 5:10) He's trying to get the Christian "before God", or a little closer to that goal, in this section. He says, His first discourse is based on Ecclesiastes 5:1. Watch you step when you go to the house of the Lord. Everything is very secure in the church where you can confess your faith with other believers but Kierkegaard thinks there is some danger in this security. God uses the circumstances of your life to preach for awakening. (p. 164-165) One must be honest before God by letting your life express what you say. He says, "Take care, therefore, when you go up to the house of the Lord because there you will get to hear the truth – for upbuilding." (p. 171) The upbuilding is there for each single individual in accordance with the reason you came to church today. (p. 173) Kierkegaard strives to get the Christian to greater inwardness in this discourse as well as others. The second discourse is based on Matthew 19:27 We Have Left Everything and Followed You; What Shall We Have. We hear about how great it is to be a Christian but seldom about this idea of leaving everything to follow Christ. Kierkegaard wrote a discourse on December 6, 1843, "' The Lord Gave, and the Lord Took Away; Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Job lost everything but the apostle Peter says, we have left everything. The Lord took in one case and everything was given up voluntarily in the other case. The Old Testament required Abraham to give up Isaac but Christianity, "the religion of freedom", asks the Christian to voluntarily give up everything to follow Christ. (p. 179) The Knower of Hearts knows if you are earnest in your declarations. "So Peter left the certain and chose the uncertain, chose to be Christ’s disciple, the disciple of him who did not even have a place to lay his head." (p. 182) But Kierkegaard stresses that God doesn't unconditionally require anyone to give up everything. (p. 186) The third discourse is based on Romans 8:28 All Things Must Serve Us for Good – When We Love God. Kierkegaard stresses the "little bad word" "when" in this unique view of this Christian verse. How do we know "when" we love God? He's not talking about fanatical love he says,