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What Is Your Cross? Luke 9:23

What Is Your Cross? Luke 9:23. Bonhoeffer “When Christ calls us to follow him, he calls us to come and die”. I. What The Cross of Christ Means. 1st century for the Jews it was a means of execution the Romans. Used to force them into submission. Symbol of power and strength.

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What Is Your Cross? Luke 9:23

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  1. What Is Your Cross?Luke 9:23

  2. Bonhoeffer “When Christ calls us to follow him, he calls us to come and die”

  3. I. What The Cross of Christ Means

  4. 1st century for the Jews it was a means of execution the Romans

  5. Used to force them into submission

  6. Symbol of power and strength

  7. Sometimes Romans would crucify 2,000 Jews on the side of the road at a time

  8. Symbol of humiliation

  9. Symbol of suffering

  10. Prior to crucifying a criminal – common for Romans to beat the criminal as they did Jesus

  11. Stripped of clothingHands tied to an upright postNow the skin is stretched tight

  12. They would then beat a person until they were at the edge of death

  13. Then they would put the person on the horizontal beam – 125 lbs

  14. Vertebrae would be exposed because of the sever beating

  15. TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOWING JESUS

  16. TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOWING JESUS USUALLY MEANS WE WILL EXPERIENCE SOME PAIN. SOME SUFFERING BECAUSE WE ARE A BELIEVER.

  17. IN THOSE FINAL HOURS BEFORE THE CROSSDR LUKE SAYS LUKE 22:43 “AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN APPEARED TO HIM AND STRENGTHENED HIM”

  18. IT WAS IN THE GARDEN JESUS MADE HIS DECISION HE WOULD RATHER GO TO HELL FOR US THAN GO TO HEAVEN WITHOUT US.

  19. LUKE 6:32 “Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you And reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.”

  20. 2 TIMOTHY 3:12 “Everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.”

  21. PHILIPPIANS 1:29 “For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him.”

  22. HERE IS THE LOADED QUESTION THIS MORNINGAM I REALLY CARRYING A CROSS IF THERE IS NO SUFFERING AND SACRIFICE IN MY LIFE?

  23. Jesus is quite clear to become a follower means we die to ourselves

  24. For the disciples following Jesus was costly

  25. MATTHEW KILLED BY A SWORD IN Ethiopia

  26. MARK DIED IN ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT AFTER BEING DRAGGED BY HORSES THROUGH THE STREETS UNTIL HE WAS DEAD

  27. LUKE WAS HANGED IN GREECE

  28. PETER WAS CRUCIFIED UPSIDE DOWN

  29. THOMAS WAS STABBED WITH A SPEAR IN INDIA ON A MISSIONARY TRIP

  30. JUDE, THE BROTHER OF JESUS WAS KILLED WITH ARROWS WHEN HE REFUSE TO DENY HIS FAITH IN CHRIST

  31. JAMES WAS BEHEADED IN JERUSALEM

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