FRIDAY

“Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

Matthew 21:9 (NIV)

From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”

John 19:12 (NIV)

“Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate.
“You have said so,” Jesus replied.

Mark 15:2 (NIV)

“And they crucified him.”

I lay down my life—only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again.

John 10:17–18 (NIV)

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

2 Corinthians 5:17–19, 21 (NIV)

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.

2 Corinthians 5:17–19, 21 (NIV)

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Corinthians 5:17–19, 21 (NIV)

He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:14 (NLT)

“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”

1 Peter 2:24 (NIV)

The cross isn’t just what Jesus did FOR us. The cross is what Jesus calls US TO.

Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.

Luke 9:23–24 (NIV)

The Call of the Cross:
DENIAL of SELF
DEATH TO SELF
DAILY PURSUIT

BOTTOM LINE:
You can’t take Jesus
and leave the cross.

THE CHALLENGE:
To pick up my cross, I will lay down…