The Cross

Unless I take up my cross and follow Jesus I am not worthy of him. To follow Jesus, I must deny myself and take up my cross and follow him. If I do not carry my cross and follow Jesus I cannot be his disciple.

When I preach the gospel it is not to be with words wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to me as one who is being saved it is the power of God. The cross an offence to those who live by religious law. Many live as of the cross of Christ.

Through the cross God reconciles us to himself and puts to death the hostility between us. May I never boast except in the cross our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and Ito the world.

And being found in appearance as a man, Jesus humbled and became obedient to death — even death on a cross! Through Jesus God has chosen to reconcile to himself all thing whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

God has made me alive with Christ. He forgave me all my sins having cancelled the written code, with its regulations, that against me and that stood opposed to me; he took it away, it to the cross.

I fix my eyes on Jesus, the author and prefecture of my faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!

(Matt. 10:38; 16:24; Luke 14:27; 1 Cor. 1:17—18; Gal. 5:11; Phil.3:18; Eph. 2:16; Gal. 6:14; Phil. 2:8; Col. 1:20; 2:13—15; Heb. 12:12; Col. 2:15; Gal. 2:20—1)