Cross-Shaped Identity
Mark 8:27-38
Pastor Bob Hiller
3/1/2015
Series:
Lent
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/fZWkgRhhMRI
Mark 8:34 "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
1. When you were ____________, you were ____________ with Jesus.
2. Jesus is not your ____________ to ____________.
3. When you are identified with Jesus, you can expect the same treatment he received from both the ____________ and ____________!
Scripture Readings
Genesis 17:1-7,15-16
Romans 5:1-11
Mark 8:27-38
Take It With You!
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Therefore we who would be Christians must surely expect to have the devil with all his angels and the world as our enemies and must expect that they will inflict every possible misfortune and grief upon us. For where God's Word is preached, accepted, or believed, and bears fruit, there the holy and precious cross will not be far behind. And let no one think that we will have peace; rather, we must sacrifice all we have on earth—possessions, honor, house and farm, spouse and children, body and life. Now, this grieves our flesh and the old creature, for it means that we must remain steadfast, suffer patiently whatever befalls us, and let go whatever is taken from us.
The Large Catechism, On the Third Petition of the Lord's Prayer.
