Lose Your Life to Save It – Matthew’s Gospel chapter 16, verses 24 to 26
24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. 26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
Matthew 16:24-26
“Topsy-Turvy Christianity”
What does it mean to be a Christian? No better place to find out than listening to its Founder.
- The Invitation
- “Lose your life”
- “Deny himself”
- “Take up the cross”
- An RSVP – Why Respond?
- Because trying to keep it loses it in the end
- Because losing it for Jesus finds it in the end
- Because it is trading the temporary for the permanent
- Because He has walked the talk before you, giving His own life that you might have eternal joy.
