Deny yourself and take up your cross dairly

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Ruthiangenisis

Ruthiangenisis

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Luke 9:23-24 And He said to them , if any man will comecome after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross dairly, and follow me. 24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whosoever will lose his life for my sake , the same shall save it. The message is clear I dont need to elaborate . Lets break our fleshly habits and follow him . He has deny/left behind everything for our sakes its fair enough if we do the same .
 
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Ruthiangenisis said:
Luke 9:23-24 And He said to them , if any man will comecome after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross dairly, and follow me. 24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whosoever will lose his life for my sake , the same shall save it. The message is clear I dont need to elaborate . Lets break our fleshly habits and follow him . He has deny/left behind everything for our sakes its fair enough if we do the same .
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I do not know your definition of "deny himself" is, but I believe it is to give up on our ability to save ourselves. God says that our sacrifice should be a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart.
 
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Ruthiangenisis said:
Luke 9:23-24 And He said to them , if any man will comecome after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross dairly, and follow me. 24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whosoever will lose his life for my sake , the same shall save it. The message is clear I dont need to elaborate . Lets break our fleshly habits and follow him . He has deny/left behind everything for our sakes its fair enough if we do the same .
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Please teach us how we deny ourselves and carry our cross?
 
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first understand that you are a new creation now that you are in Christ, the old is gone once you have understand and accepted that you are a new creation then develop a personal relationship with God by reading the bible, praying, worshiping and praising Him, thanks giving, while doing this the fruits of the spirit will start to grow in you and when you have the fruit of the spirit the fruit of the gone is gone and once the fruit of the flesh is gone you will crave more for His will .
 
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ForestGreenCook said:
I do not know your definition of "deny himself" is, but I believe it is to give up on our ability to save ourselves. God says that our sacrifice should be a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart.
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All that you have said is also part of denying ourselves , just to add to deny ourselves also means to give up or to break off our habits that are far from what God has call us to be. Meaning we should cut off every negative habits that do not align with God's will and not only negative habits but also what keeps you away from spending time with Christ. The value of sacrifice is to give up what will hurt once you give it up.
 
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Deny yourself: do not pander to the flesh or this age...…...look to our Hope in faith and love.
 
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Deny yourself: do not pander to the flesh or this age...…...look to our Hope in faith and love.
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Jaumel I am not judging read my statement well. If you do not agree with my statement explain to me what the Lord said in luke 9:23. When tHE lord found peter and his brother he said leave what you doing and follow me i will make you fishers of men.
 
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Ruthiangenisis said:
Jaumel I am not judging read my statement well. If you do not agree with my statement explain to me what the Lord said in luke 9:23. When tHE lord found peter and his brother he said leave what you doing and follow me i will make you fishers of men.
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Forgive my posting without saying, it has nothing todo with what you posted. It is simplyd a reference to the Epistles. I know nothing is alway s just one way…….especially with our Father….He can say things that mean so many different things yet they all come out to onetruth….that's our Father, amen.
 
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Ruthiangenisis said:
Luke 9:23-24 And He said to them , if any man will comecome after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross dairly, and follow me. 24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whosoever will lose his life for my sake , the same shall save it. The message is clear I dont need to elaborate . Lets break our fleshly habits and follow him . He has deny/left behind everything for our sakes its fair enough if we do the same .
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Thatz what i am saying. Breaking fleshly things . What u re saying is th same thing we dont have to use the same words to mean the same thing. All you have to do is read to understand .
 
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JaumeJ said:
Forgive my posting without saying, it has nothing todo with what you posted. It is simplyd a reference to the Epistles. I know nothing is alway s just one way…….especially with our Father….He can say things that mean so many different things yet they all come out to onetruth….that's our Father, amen.
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Amen .
 
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John the Baptist is a great example of this, even though he was the front runner for Jesus, and never actually heard Jesus give this specific command. John said, John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.


27John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

28Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.

29He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

30He must increase, but I must decrease.
 
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