What Does the Bible Say About Death to Self?

There is only one way to overcome the Antichrist spirit and that is by the death of the cross.

If we do not accept the way of the cross, the denial of our own desires, our testimony can be overcome by Antichrist, as has happened to the Christian churches in America in our day. God's people are not being taught the way of the cross.

They are encouraged to learn to use spiritual gifts, in some instances, but they are not taught the importance of personal crucifixion.

Because the American believers and their leaders have turned away from the hardships associated with the Christian discipleship, God has sent a strong delusion upon us. We have rejected the way of truth, the way of the cross.

We need to get back to the preaching of the cross of the believer. No person can govern the nations until the rod of iron has been created in his personality, for it is by the rod of iron that we rule in Christ.

The rod of iron, the hardness of a will fixed in God, is created only by carrying our cross of denial.