58.1 Lose One's Life For Christ's Sake

(Luke 9:22-26)

He also told them, "The Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the Law.  He will be put to death, but three days later he will be raised to life."

And he said to them all, "If anyone wants to come with me, he must forget himself, take up his cross every day, and follow me.  For whoever wants to save his own life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. Will a person gain anything if he wins the whole world but is himself lost or defeated? Of course not! If a person is ashamed of me and of my teaching, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.  

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