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You Have To Give Up To Go Up

The document emphasizes the importance of genuinely wanting to follow Jesus and the necessity of applying God's truth in one’s life to achieve spiritual maturity. It encourages believers to give up sinful desires and selfishness, while actively engaging in daily devotion and righteousness. Ultimately, it highlights the path to salvation through belief, repentance, confession, and baptism.

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• How can we really learn to follow Jesus? John 6:44-45; 17:17 • As we seek to grow up in Christ we need to learn and apply God’s truth in our lives. Lk. 11:28; Mt. 28:20 • What will one need to do to go onto spiritual maturity and ultimately heaven? Luke 9:23-25
“If anyone desires to come after Me” • One must truly desire to “come after” or follow Christ. Luke 9:23 • If one does not truly desire this they will not really come after Him. – Some believed Jesus, but their desire was to please men not God. John 12:42-43 – Some teach for selfishness and other reasons this is not following Christ. Phil. 1:15-16 – Some followed Jesus for the food to eat not for the spiritual food. John 6:26-27 • Be sure to follow Jesus for the right reasons. Mark 12:30; 1 Jn. 4:19
“Let him deny himself” • There are things we must deny/give up concerning our own desires in order to follow Jesus! • Give up sinful things which destroy you! 1 Peter 2:11; Romans 13:14 • Give up selfishness and grow in love! Phil. 2:3-4; Romans 13:8; James 3:13-16 • Give up evil thinking! Mt. 15:19-20; Rom. 12:9 • Stop following things which don’t satisfy! Hebrews 11:25; Mt. 5:6
“And take up his cross daily and follow Me” • We take up our own cross and sacrifice to God our daily devotion to Him by following Christ in all that we do. Luke 9:23 • We must go up to Jesus! Mt. 11:28-30 • We go up to righteousness in our living! 1 Corinthians 15:34; Phil. 1:10-11 • Go up to God’s truth unashamed! Romans 1:1-17; 1 John 2:24-28; 6:63 • Go up to a life changer to do something great for God… 1 Cor. 9:22; 1 Thes. 5:15
Will You Give Up To Go Up? • May we decide to say like Paul did in Philippians 3:7-11! • We know that to gain the whole world would be to lose our life/soul. Luke 9:24-25; Mt. 16:26 • Today you can come to Jesus and be saved! Acts 4:12 • Hear & believe… Acts 18:8; 15:7 • Repent… Acts 2:38 • Confess… Acts 8:37 • Baptism… Acts 22:16