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unable to pay your light bill. It's not having to
get up at 4 o'clock in the morning and go to
your job. Lost people have to do that. Lost
people's lights will get turned off if they don't
pay their electric bill. Taking up your cross is
not difficulties and sickness because lost
people experience that too — and they finally
die too. It's not even your mother-in-law,
because lost people have mothers-in-law too.
The cross is openly confessing Jesus Christ and
being willing to suffer for Him and not being
ashamed of Him. That's taking up the cross
and following the Lord Jesus Christ.
The third requirement for discipleship is in
verse 39. Jesus says here, “He that findeth his
life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for
my sake shall find it.” Well, that sounds like a
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