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If Any Man Desires to Come After Me

• Then Jesus said to His disciples, If
  anyone desires to come after Me,
  let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and
  follow Me.
• (Matthew 1624)

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Following Jesus

• If any man desires to
• A matter of will or choice (Joshua
  2415 Acts 240-41 Acts 1346)

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Joshua 2415

• And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD,
  choose for yourselves this day whom you will
  serve, whether the gods which your fathers served
  that were on the other side of the River, or the
  gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.
  But as for me and my house, we will
  serve the LORD.

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Acts 240-41

• And with many other words he testified and
  exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this
  perverse generation. Then those who gladly
  received his word were baptized and that day
  about three thousand souls were added to them.

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Acts 1346

• Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said, It
  was necessary that the word of God should be
  spoken to you first but since you reject it, and
  judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life,
  behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

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Following Jesus

• If any man desires to
• A matter of will or choice (Joshua
  2415 Acts 240-41 Acts 1346)
• Come after me
• Many are following the wrong one, man (1 Cor.
  112-13 Gal. 16-7)

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1 Corinthians 112-13

• Now I say this, that each of you says, I am of
  Paul, or I am of Apollos, or I am of Cephas,
  or I am of Christ. Is Christ divided? Was Paul
  crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the
  name of Paul?

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Galatians 16-7

• I marvel that you are turning away so soon from
  Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a
  different gospel, which is not another but there
  are some who trouble you and want to pervert the
  gospel of Christ.

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Following Jesus

• If any man desires to
• A matter of will or choice (Joshua
  2415 Acts 240-41 Acts 1346)
• Come after me
• Many are following the wrong one, man (1 Cor.
  112-13 Gal. 16-7)
• We must follow Christ for our salvation (1 Cor.
  111 John 146)

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1 Corinthians 111

• Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.

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John 146

• Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and
  the life. No one comes to the Father except
  through Me.

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Following Jesus

• Let him deny himself
• Surrender to Gods will. (Matt. 188-9
  Ja. 127 Ro. 121-2 Phil. 34-8)

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Matthew 188-9

• If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it
  off and cast it from you. It is better for you to
  enter into life lame or maimed, rather than
  having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the
  everlasting fire. And if your eye causes you to
  sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is
  better for you to enter into life with one eye,
  rather than having two eyes, to
  be cast into hell fire.

14
James 127

• Pure and undefiled religion before God and the
  Father is this to visit orphans and widows in
  their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from
  the world.

15
Romans 121-2

• I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
  mercies of God, that you present your bodies a
  living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which
  is your reasonable service. And do not be
  conformed to this world, but be transformed by
  the renewing of your mind, that you may prove
  what is that good and acceptable
  and perfect will of God.

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Philippians 34-8

• Though I also might have confidence in the
  flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have
  confidence in the flesh, I more so circumcised
  the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the
  tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews
  concerning the law, a Pharisee concerning zeal,
  persecuting the church concerning the
  righteousness which is in the law, blameless. But
  what things were gain to me, these I have counted
  loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all
  things loss for the excellence of the knowledge
  of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have
  suffered the loss of all things,
  and count them as rubbish, that I
  may gain Christ.

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Following Jesus

• Let him deny himself
• Surrender to Gods will. (Matt. 188-9
  Ja. 127 Ro. 121-2 Phil. 34-8)
• And take up his cross
• Endure burdens for Christ (Paul is an inspiring
  example. 2 Cor. 1124-28)

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2 Corinthians 1124-28

• From the Jews five times I received forty
  stripes minus one. Three times I was beaten with
  rods once I was stoned three times I was
  shipwrecked a night and a day I have been in the
  deep in journeys often, in perils of waters, in
  perils of robbers, in perils of my own
  countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils
  in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in
  perils in the sea, in perils among false
  brethren in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness
  often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often,
  in cold and nakedness besides the
  other things, what comes upon me
  daily my deep concern for all
  the churches.

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Following Jesus

• Let him deny himself
• Surrender to Gods will. (Matt. 188-9
  Ja. 127 Ro. 121-2 Phil. 34-8)
• And take up his cross
• Endure burdens for Christ (Paul is an inspiring
  example. 2 Cor. 1124-28)
• And follow me.
• To go to heaven, we must follow Christs steps.
  They lead there. (John 141-4)

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John 141-4

• Let not your heart be troubled you believe in
  God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are
  many mansions if it were not so, I would have
  told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if
  I go and prepare a place for you, I will come
  again and receive you to Myself that where I am,
  there you may be also. And where I
  go you know, and the way you know.

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Following Jesus

• For to this you were called, because Christ also
  suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you
  should follow His steps Who committed no sin,
  Nor was deceit found in His mouth who, when He
  was reviled, did not revile in return when He
  suffered, He did not threaten, but committed
  Himself to Him who judges righteously who
  Himself bore our sins in His own body on the
  tree, that we, having died to sins, might live
  for righteousness by whose stripes you were
  healed.
  (1 Pet. 221-24)