2. Do You Know What It Means To Take Up Your Cross?
"If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me." Luke 9:23
Do You Know What It Means To Take Up Your Cross?

3. Are they taking up their cross?

4. What Did It Mean To Take Up A Cross?
A guilty verdict had been rendered.
Mark 15:27,28; Luke 23:39-41
No longer in control of their life.
Matthew 27:27-31; John 21:18
Death was certain.
John 19:16-18

5. What Does It Mean To Take Up Our Cross?
We are guilty.
1 John 1:8-10
We are no longer in control of our life.
Luke 9:23
Death is necessary.
Romans 12:1; Gal 2:20; Eph 4:22-32

6. Take Up Your Cross Daily
Following Christ is a lifelong commitment.
Luke 9:57-62
Temptation will not just go away.
Luke 4:13; 1 Peter 5:8; Romans 6:16
Don’t worry about tomorrow, take up your cross today.
Matt 6:34