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Say What?!
Say What?!
When I was a kid the one thing I was the best at was being mediocre at everything. But I wanted to be the best at something. Like for real. I was good at sports. But not the best. I was good at school but not the best. Every year I competed in math field day and got second place. EVERY YEAR!
So, I decided I was going to be the best at drawing. there was a problem, I sucked at drawing. So, I traced everything and told everyone that I had drawn it myself…
however, eventually I got pretty good at ACTUALLY drawing. But still not the best.
through the years what I chose to do for fun and relaxation has changed. It went from sports in middle school and high school to hanging out with friends and having tea parties in college to reading books while drinking tea alone and woodworking now.
Today I was thinking about the things i’ve built and the things I’d like to build. And due to the lesson today my mind went to the cross. I’ve never built a cross. I’ve never had a reason to. I’ve seen crosses, I’ve touched them, but I’ve never built one. So, today, I did.
When I built it I cut it into the right lengths. I cut it so they’d fit together and then I had to sand off some rough edges so it would fit into place.
Why? Because one of my favorite sets of verses fits right into the series we are in now.
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
Luke 9:34-34
SAY WHAT?!
SAY WHAT?!
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Let’s break it down a little…
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
One thing is clear, there are two different things being contrasted here.
Let’s call it “LIFE 1” and “LIFE 2”
Let’s start with the cross…
___________ Come give me a hand please, can you help me pick this up? (situate cross in right place)
Thanks.
One thing is clear, there are two different things being contrasted here.
Let’s call it “LIFE 1” and “LIFE 2”
________ was the cross light?
Would you like to carry that everywhere all the time?
No, it would suck. Period.
Last week Justin talked about the “follow me” portion.
And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Darrel Bock says in the NIV Application Commentary on Luke…:
The NIV Application Commentary: Luke Contemporary Significance
Materialism and the pursuit of power, independence, and security are probably the biggest obstacles to spiritual advancement. Everything in our culture from commercials to our education pushes us in the direction of advancing our standing of living for more comfort. To pick up a cross means walking against the grain of cultural values, so that our own expectations and needs take a back seat to God’s call.
The NIV Application Commentary: Luke Contemporary Significance
Materialism and the pursuit of power, independence, and security are probably the biggest obstacles to spiritual advancement. Everything in our culture from commercials to our education pushes us in the direction of advancing our standing of living for more comfort. To pick up a cross means walking against the grain of cultural values, so that our own expectations and needs take a back seat to God’s call. Some things we may have seen as ours by natural right may need to be renounced because they represent a subtle form of idolatry. The Spirit guides us into seeing things differently than we did before. Bearing a cross may mean leaving behind dreams created for us long ago by a citizenship we have now left behind.
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you.
Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
What does it mean to live for your self now… It’s me, trying to be the best at something. I wanted it because I wanted...
Popularity
Praise
Respect and Love
Wealth
Popularity
Praise
But, let’s contrast it to what we can expect in the here and now from the “take up the cross” point...
But, let’s contrast it to what we can expect in the here and now from the “take up the cross” point...
Cross
Pain
Resentment
Persecution
But what can we expect. What’s really at stake here… the verse speaks in the future tense...
But what can we expect. What’s really at stake here… the verse speaks in the future tense...
well, if we live for self we can expect:
well, if we live for self we can expect:
Death
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Seperation
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Pain
John
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Pain
Punishment
Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
But if we live for Christ we can expect;
But if we live for Christ we can expect;
Eternal Life
john 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Treasures
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
God’s Presence
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
Renewal:
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
In the moment, in the here and the now, living for God seems tough. But it’s worth it.