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But there’s a cross to bear when a Christian

follows the leading of the Spirit of God.

Jesus said in Luke 9:23, “If any man will come

after me, let him deny himself, and take up

his cross daily, and follow me,” and in

Matthew 10:38 Jesus said, “And he that

taketh not his cross, and followeth after me,

is not worthy of me.” This kind of Christianity

is not taught in most churches today and

neither is it lived out in the lives of most

professing Christians, but that’s the only

kind of Christianity that God acknowledges,

and it’s the only kind of Christianity that is

worthy of calling oneself a Christian.

A cross represents suffering and death, so

when Jesus speaks of taking up one’s cross

to follow Him, He’s referring to the suffering

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