Take Up the Cross and Follow Him
34 When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, (Matt. 10:38); Luke 14:27"Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.35 For Matt. 10:39; Luke 17:33; John 12:25whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?37 Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?