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Take Up Your Cross and Follow Me!
Kevin and Ryan, ages five and three, were waiting for breakfast one Saturday morning.
As their mother was preparing some pancakes, the boys began to argue loudly over who would get the first one from the griddle.
Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson and said, “If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, ‘Let my brother have the first pancake.
I can wait.”
Kevin the older brother immediately turned to his younger brother and said, “Okay, Ryan, you be Jesus.”
Turn your bibles too.
Pray
:
This morning I will be preaching on.
“What does it mean to take up your cross and follow Jesus.”
In other words.
What does it truly mean to Sacrifice for the cause of Jesus Christ.
In the beginning verse of our text this morning.
It say, “Take up your Cross and Follow Me.”
I. What Is Our Cross?
Many people interpret “The Cross” as some burden, they must carry in their lives:
A Stranded Relationship
A Thankless Job
A Physical Illness
Let’s first look at what our cross Is Not:
It’s not your burdens.
It’s not the circumstances in your life.
It’s not your diseases.
It’s is not your heartaches.
This is not what Jesus meant.
When Jesus carried His cross up to Golgotha to be crucified,
No one was thinking of the cross as a symbolic symbol of a burden to carry.
To a person in the first century.
The cross meant one thing only.
A death by the most painful and humiliating means a human being could suffer.
Two thousand years later Christians viewed the cross as a cherished symbol of;
Atonement
Forgiveness
Grace
Love
Jesus did not say, “Take up your burdens and follow me.”
II.
What Is The Cross?
It is the Redemptive Suffering.
Suffering for someone else.
Suffering what you do not deserve, for someone else.
Jesus Suffered:
The Perfect - for the imperfect.
The Holy - for the unholy.
Here is the definition of the cross.
It is suffering in the place for someone who deserves to suffer for it.
Most do not know what New Testament Christianity is.
They think it means: Quit Your;
Drinking,
Cursing,
Immorality,
Smoking,
Lying.
That is only part of it, but it’s more than that.
God wants us to suffer for each other.
Take up your cross and follow me means:
You are willing to die in order to follow Jesus.
This is called “Dying to Self.”
Absolute Surrender.
Following Jesus is easy when life runs smoothly.
Our true commitment to Him is revealed during our trails.
Jesus assured us that trail will come to His followers.
e. Discipleship demands Sacrifices!
Jesus never hid the cost.
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2. We see three people willing to follow Jesus.
When questioned:
There commitment was half-hearted.
They failed to count the cost of following the Lord.
3. Commitment to Jesus Christ means: Taking up your cross;
Daily
Giving up your dreams
Giving up your possessions
Even your life if need be for the cause of Christ.
4. The only true way to be the Lord’s disciple is to be willing to take up your cross and follow Him.
Luke
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There is no such thing as a halfway disciple.
6.
There is no such thing as a lukewarm Christian.
III.
So, What Is The Cross?
I Want To Look At 3 Things.
It is the redemptive work.
The word accursed means,
Willing to go to Hell to save my people.
That is when we are willing to suffer the guilt for others.
You say, “Preacher you don’t know what that person did to me.”
That tells me you are not willing to pick up your cross and follow Jesus.
The cross is redemptive.
It is when you innocently suffer for the guilty and you choose to do so.
Isn’t that what Jesus did?
2. The cross is - Suffering for those guilty against me.
Somebody attacked you, somebody hurt you.
You say, “Don’t punish them, punish me.”
You say, “That’s not natural.”
You are right,
It’s above supernatural
It’s Christ Nature.
When you have been done an injustice,
Right then is when you decide whether you take up your cross.
Jesus died on the cross for those that killed Him.
1 Corinthians
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