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24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? – Matthew 16:24-26

#ChristianCliches BET SEFER – House of the Book

#ChristianCliches BET SEFER – House of the Book BET TALMUD – House of Learning

#ChristianCliches BET SEFER – House of the Book BET TALMUD – House of Learning BET MIDRASH – House of Study

#ChristianCliches “May you be covered in the dust of your rabbi.”

#ChristianCliches 1) Lay Something Down

#ChristianCliches 1) Lay Something Down “God is not only concerned with what we do – he’s concerned with who we are.”

#ChristianCliches 1) Lay Something Down “Denying self means that we renounce our right to ourselves”

#ChristianCliches 1) Lay Something Down I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. – Galatians 2:20

#ChristianCliches When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart, or even defend yourself, but take in all in patient, loving silence. THAT IS DYING TO SELF

#ChristianCliches When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity, any impunctuality, or any annoyance; when you stand face-to- face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility- and endure it as Jesus endured. THAT IS DYING TO SELF

#ChristianCliches When you are content with any food, any offering, any climate, any society, any raiment, any interruption by the will of God. THAT IS DYING TO SELF

#ChristianCliches When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or to record your own good works, or itch after commendations, when you can truly love to be unknown. THAT IS DYING TO SELF

#ChristianCliches When you can see your brother prosper and have his needs met and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy, nor question God, while your own needs are far greater and in desperate circumstances. THAT IS DYING TO SELF

#ChristianCliches When you can receive correction and reproof from one of less stature than yourself and can humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart. THAT IS DYING TO SELF

#ChristianCliches Fred Craddock

#ChristianCliches 1) Lay Something Down 2) Lift Something Up

#ChristianCliches 1) Lay Something Down 2) Lift Something Up “The cross is not just a place of suffering – it’s a place of death.”

#ChristianCliches “…the cross was a very concrete and vivid reality. It was the instrument of execution reserved for Rome’s worst enemies. It was a symbol of the torture and death that awaited those who dared raise a hand against Roman authority. Not many years before Jesus and the disciples came to Caesarea Philippi, 100 men had been crucified in the area.

#ChristianCliches A century earlier, Alexander Janneus had crucified 800 Jewish rebels at Jerusalem, and after the revolt that followed the death of Herod the Great, 2,000 Jews were crucified by the Roman proconsul Varus. Crucifixions on a smaller scale were a common sight, and it has been estimated that perhaps some 30,000 occurred under Roman authority during the lifetime of Christ.” – John MacArthur

#ChristianCliches If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him. – John 12:26

#ChristianCliches 1) Lay Something Down 2) Lift Something Up 3) Live Something Out

#ChristianCliches 1) Lay Something Down 2) Lift Something Up 3) Live Something Out If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him. – John 12:26

#ChristianCliches “If anyone wished to be counted as an adherent of mine, he must once and for all say farewell to self, decisively accept pain and shame and persecution for my sake and in my cause, and must then follow and keep on following me as my disciple.” -- William Henriksen

#ChristianCliches “The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.” — Phillip Yancy

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Specifically acknowledge – that I need God to lead me through Word and Spirit (Romans 8)

#ChristianCliches Specifically acknowledge – that I need God to lead me through Word and Spirit (Romans 8) Intentionally rejoice – knowing that God is present and involved! (Philippians 2:12-13)

#ChristianCliches Specifically acknowledge – that I need God to lead me through Word and Spirit (Romans 8) Intentionally rejoice – knowing that God is present and involved! (Philippians 2:12-13) Purposely reassure my heart that I am not alone in this journey. (Hebrew 13:5-6)

#ChristianCliches Specifically acknowledge – that I need God to lead me through Word and Spirit (Romans 8) Intentionally rejoice – knowing that God is present and involved! (Philippians 2:12-13) Purposely reassure my heart that I am not alone in this journey. (Hebrew 13:5-6) Consciously trust – that even when I’ve screwed up God is working amidst the mess. (Romans 8:28-30)

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