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"Take up your Cross and Follow Jesus" Matthew 16:2 - Original Painting4, John 13:15, 1 Peter 2:19-21, Philippians 2:5-11
Title: "Take up your Cross and Follow Jesus"
Scripture inspiration: Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me". Matthew 16:24
I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. John 13:15
For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God. But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this, you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. 1 Peter 2:19-21
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death- even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:5-11
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