Sermon Notes
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4/10/2016
Pastor Tim D. Stevens
To Know God
Make Him Known
Luke 9:23 NIV
23Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
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Take Up Your Cross = To completely relinquish all of your own ways of doing things, your own ideas and ways of thinking, your own passions and desires, Your will.
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Jesus’ way of doing things, His ideas and ways of thinking, His desires and passions, His Will.
Mark 8:34-38 NLT
34Then, calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me. 35If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it. 36And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? 37Is anything worth more than your soul? 38If anyone is ashamed of me and my message in these adulterous and sinful days, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
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Romans 10:9-10 NKJV
9that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For with the heart one
believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:9-10 NLT
9If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved.
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2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT
17This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
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Luke 14:25-27, 33 NLT
25A large crowd was following Jesus. He turned around and said to them, 26“If you want to be my disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else—your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple. 27And if you do not carry your own cross and follow me, you cannot be my disciple.
33So you cannot become my disciple without giving up everything you own.
Matthew 10:37-39 NLT
37“If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine. 38If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine. 39If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it.