The first requiement Jesus had for anyone who wished to follow Him was to deny self. Jesus will never share the throne of your hear with yourself. That is why He said that you have to lose you life in order to find it. Today's false gospel says otherwise. There are even tracks produced that picture a man's heart with self on the throne of his heart and Jesus de-throned lying beside the self throne. This is typical of todays modern gospel that teaches that you can keep your sin and selfishness and still go to heaven. But it has never been this way with God. From the old days of the children of Israel and the prophets of old until this very hour, God has always required a whole heart for men to be forgiven and saved. The present gospel preached almost everywhere today is not the gospel of the Bible or of any of the prophets of old nor of any of the Apostles of the new testament and certainly not of Jesus Christ as He spoke when He walked on this earth.