True Repentence - Part 2

You know as you walk in this life after salvation - you know - accepting the gift of new life - as in crying out to God - and stepping out of your blind - self bound - life, you begin the real deal - Oh Yea!

Are you with me?

Let's check out what the Scriptures says about the cross as a first step regarding stepping in our new life: Be prepared to take notes and to check out the words of the following scriptures in Strong's Concordance, and read the entire chapters for a full picture of what is being presented:

1.Obadiah 1:14 (Whole Chapter)
Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.


2.Matthew 10:38 (Whole Chapter)
And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.


3.Matthew 16:24 (Whole Chapter)
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.


4.Matthew 27:32 (Whole Chapter)
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.


5.Matthew 27:40 (Whole Chapter)
And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.


6.Matthew 27:42 (Whole Chapter)
He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.


7.Mark 8:34 (Whole Chapter)
And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.


8.Mark 10:21 (Whole Chapter)
Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.


9.Mark 15:21 (Whole Chapter)
And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.


10.Mark 15:30 (Whole Chapter)
Save thyself, and come down from the cross.


11.Mark 15:32 (Whole Chapter)
Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.


12.Luke 9:23 (Whole Chapter)
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.


13.Luke 14:27 (Whole Chapter)
And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.


14.Luke 23:26 (Whole Chapter)
And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.


15.John 19:17 (Whole Chapter)
And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:


16.John 19:19 (Whole Chapter)
And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.


17.John 19:25 (Whole Chapter)
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.


18.John 19:31 (Whole Chapter)
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.


19.1 Corinthians 1:17 (Whole Chapter)
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.


20.1 Corinthians 1:18 (Whole Chapter)
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.


21.Galatians 5:11 (Whole Chapter)
And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.


22.Galatians 6:12 (Whole Chapter)
As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.


23.Galatians 6:14 (Whole Chapter)
But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.


24.Ephesians 2:16 (Whole Chapter)
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:


25.Philippians 2:8 (Whole Chapter)
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.


26.Philippians 3:18 (Whole Chapter)
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:


27.Colossians 1:20 (Whole Chapter)
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.


28.Colossians 2:14 (Whole Chapter)
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;


29.Hebrews 12:2 (Whole Chapter)
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

And now check out the following:

3.Galatians 2:20 (Whole Chapter)
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

And we pick up our cross and follow Him, into new life -- hmmmm. Have you considered that daily 24/7 you crucify all that 'self-centered' junk that attempts to exalt itself above the true knowledge of God???

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