Cipher 44.Take Up Your Own Cross Daily (Luke 9:18-23)
1. WHO? (9:18) Jesus said, Who do the multitudes say that I am?
2. WHY multitudes? (9:19) And they answering said, John the Baptist; but others say, Elijah; and others, that one of the old prophets is risen again.
3. HOW do you think? (9:20) But who say you that I am? And Peter answering said, The Christ of God.
4. WHAT to believe? (9:21-22) Jesus said, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed,
5. WHEN? (9:22) And the third day be raised up.
6. WHERE is audience? (9:23) And he said unto all,
7. WHICH way? (9:23) If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
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Commentary: How do you take up your own cross if you don’t know you have one? Religious books, the internet and preacher’s sermons are rife with speculation after speculation, most with good intentions, about what Jesus means above. To see what he really means, literally, return to the Authority of the Baptism Cross in Mat 28:19. (Cipher 35) If your name has not replaced “all nations” to complete personal Baptism through the Cross, the following Scripture can apply:
And he that doth not take his cross (Personal Baptism Cross) and follow after me, is not worthy of me. Mat 10:38
Whosoever doth not bear his own cross (Personal Baptism Cross), and come after me, cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:27
If baptized through the cross, one way to take up your own cross daily is to say the “Lord’s Prayer”, wherein it is written; Give us this day our daily bread ending with, For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and glory, forever, while touching the stomach, forehead, right shoulder and left shoulder. Then you may be known in Cipher 77 with the mark of the cross on your forehead.
What does take up your own cross daily mean?
Were you ever baptized?
Yes
Did you know that baptism creates your own personal cross, if you know baptism is through the cross?
How could that be? I was baptized into the name of the Trinity like Jesus said it in Matthew 28:19. “Go ye therefore and baptize all nations in the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit.”
Can you see what’s formed in that verse with your Trinity on top, and “all nations” on the foot? Take a look at Cipher 35.
I can see a cross, but not a personal cross.
Good. In that verse Jesus instructed his disciples to baptize all nations on earth. But you cannot baptize all nations with one baptism, can you?
I don’t think so.
But you can baptize one by one, can’t you?
Yes, of course.
One baptism is what happened when you were baptized. If you knew your baptism was through the cross, your name is written on the foot of it.
I see. So, my baptism cross is my own cross that Jesus said I must pick up daily to follow him.
Correct
So what if when I was baptized I didn’t know baptism was through the cross?
In Matthew 10:38 Jesus said it another way like this, “And he that does not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.”
Oh no!! Now you are telling me not only I cannot follow Jesus daily, but I am not worthy of him either, if I don’t accept my own personal cross when baptized.
Not me Frank. Jesus said it.
Maybe it’s not necessary. The Doctrine of the Trinity doesn’t teach this.
How can you pick up your own cross if you don’t know you have one?