#1,049 – Take up Your Cross and Follow Jesus (Matthew 16:24–25)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Lord, we plead for help to turn from sin and deny ourselves. Might each day be marked by taking up our cross and following Christ.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net.
0:04.8	Matthew chapter 16 verses 24 and 25
0:09.2	then Jesus told his disciples if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross
0:18.8	and follow me, for whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
0:30.0	Like these are words we see over and over and over again in the Gospels from Jesus.
0:38.0	It's like the Holy Spirit of God is making crystal clear to us that there is no such thing as casual, comfortable Christianity, cultural Christianity,
1:00.4	just kind of following Jesus out of a sense of religious routine.
1:09.0	Like no, Jesus over and over and over again in the Gospels makes clear that this is not
1:17.8	following him. There are all kinds of people, all kinds of crowds who wanted to follow Jesus that way.
1:26.2	In the first century in all kinds of people and all kinds of crowds who want to follow Jesus that way in the 21st century.
1:37.0	And Jesus says if anyone, this is not just a call to the elite here. This is not just Navy Seal Christianity.
1:48.0	This is not just special forces. This is anyone who would follow Jesus if anyone would come after me.
1:56.0	Let him deny himself and take up his cross.
2:02.8	An instrument, like put yourself in the shoes of people who are hearing this in the first century,
2:08.4	an instrument of torture.
2:11.5	Like we for right reason today have respect and reverence for the cross.
2:17.0	In the first century you didn't have that like this is an instrument of torture and death for the most vile of criminals take up his
2:27.6	cross and follow me. Deny himself, take up his cross.
2:33.2	Die to yourself and follow me.
2:39.6	Which begs the question, like, where are you going?
2:41.6	And that's kind of the point.
2:44.1	It doesn't matter where you're going, where this leads.
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