06/27/23 DENYING YOURSELF, NOT CHRIST

06/27/23 DENYING YOURSELF, NOT CHRIST

In our response to Jesus we will either deny ourselves or we will deny Him. It is our choice

DENYING YOURSELF
Mark 8:34-38
34 When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, "Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
35 For whoever 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?
38 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels."

DENYING CHRIST
Matthew 10:32-33 
32 "Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven. 

WE CHOOSE TO DENY HIM OR TO REMAIN FAITHFUL
2 Timothy 2:12-13
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.