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Wanted: Cross-bearers by Sis. Techie

Matthew 16:24-27 Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. 25 For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever desires to lose his life for My sake shall find it. 26 For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? 27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He shall reward each one according to his works.

2 Timothy 4:2 preach the Word, be instant in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be perfected, thoroughly furnished to every good work.

James 1:22-25 But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man studying his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he studied himself and went his way, and immediately he forgot what he was like. 25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it , he is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work. This one shall be blessed in his doing.

We must continue to listen to the Word. We must profit every time we listen to the word of God, letting His word come alive in our life.

Living with Jesus, obeying His word requires us to pay a great price, but the rewards are so great.

The message of God is

1. Self-denial

    - It is all about what Jesus wants. His words are unchanging.

    - to deny is to refuse to associate with, thus to refuse to be associated with your old self.

    - Romans 6:11, consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive in God

    - expect conflicts with those who do not follow Christ with you.

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2. Take up your Cross

    - in Jesus time, the cross was unattractive, because it connotes death.

    - Mark 10:17-24, there are barriers taking up our cross.

    - we may need to enter throughout the narrow gate and that may need divesting ourselves from our baggages like the ca,el entering the eye of the needle.

    - always thud narrow road that leads to God

3. Follow Jesus

    - 1peter 2, learn from the example of Jesus.

If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. 25 For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever desires to lose his life for My sake shall find it.