Forgiven and Crucified — Phil Beach Jr.

Hello, oh, it's nice and loud good. It's still just as loud if I walk over here. Yeah, so, um. They're having a little problem with this. Praise the Lord. Thank God for his presence. Thank God for his goodness.

Thank God for his loving-kindness. If you have a need in your life this morning this afternoon Jesus Christ is the answer. Do you know that Jesus Christ is the answer. You're lonely. You've been rejected by people.

You've been hurt by people. You've been misunderstood by people you've wrestled with bitterness and Unforgiveness and you get yourself in that place and you say, oh my god, what am I going to do? Jesus Christ can deliver you from that.

Jesus Christ Can minister his love into your heart this afternoon. Do you believe that? How many have you don't have to raise your hand, but how many have been in that position where you have felt? Misunderstood and rejected in bitterness and unforgiveness.

Raising up in your heart and you have not had the resources with your within your own self. To find the deliverance that you need you have not been able to find it. You you've even looked to other people and they have failed you haven't they?

For a while you thought for sure now. I found the one that's going to help me, but they failed. They failed you didn't they and they let you down and Your hopes that you had and maybe perhaps finding a way out of this black hole were dashed to pieces.

Like a stone being dropped off the Empire State Building and they crumbled and there you were again. Caught in this black hole and you have nowhere to go and you're saying Oh God. I've looked to so many things.

I've looked to people I've looked to my own self and I can't find any hope or any help. What am I going to do? Jesus Christ alone is the answer for you today. Jesus Christ is God's answer to man's dilemma.

Do you know that we're in a dilemma today a great dilemma? Not only individually but corporately as the church unquote. We're in a great dilemma today and Beloved by the grace of God I want to be able to share something of the Lord's heart tonight Monday night and Tuesday night so that we can gather around him and learn something more of him.

Something more of his heart. There's a lot of different ideas floating around about how to get out of the dilemma the social dilemma that we're in. The physical dilemma that we're in the emotional dilemma that we're in the mental dilemma that we're in.

We've got so many problems and I'm not speaking about the problems outside the church. I'm referring to the problems that are within the church. So many different problems so many different Difficulties and we're looking to so many different places.

Lots of books are being written. Lots of seminars are being held lots of different speakers are offering various different solutions to the problems and the dilemmas but beloved as the Church of Jesus Christ as the Redeemed of the Lord washed in the blood of Jesus Christ Indwelt by the Spirit of God it must be our chief focus that the Lord Jesus Christ must be.

The answer to all of the dilemmas that we find ourself in today. Jesus Christ the person of Christ and God through the power of the Holy Spirit making him the life of our very being. That's your answer today.

That's my answer today. If you have your Bibles, I'd like to invite you to turn if you would please to the book of 1st Corinthians. 1st Corinthians beginning in chapter 1 starting in verse number 1. 1st Corinthians chapter 1 verse number 1.

The Corinthian Church: Grace, Gifts, and Division

Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God and Sotheby's our brother. Under the Church of God, which is at Cornyn to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus. Call to be saints with all that are in every place.

Call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours. Grace and peace be unto you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. I Thank my God always on your behalf. For the grace of God, which is given you by Jesus Christ.

Now as we proceed to read this we want to take special notice in Paul's thoughts at the very beginning of this book to the Corinthians because these thoughts are very important if we are to understand something of the Lord's heart.

Something of the Lord's burden for you and I today. Notice that as Paul greets the Corinthian Church He begins in verse number four by saying. I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God.

Which is given you by Jesus Christ. So these believers were those who were familiar with and partakers of the grace of God. They were not people who were Ignorant of the grace of God they understood the grace of God.

They were sharers of the grace of God. It says that the grace of God was given to them by Jesus Christ. So they were not grace ignorant. They were aware of the grace of God and we know that it's by the grace of God.

That we enter into all the things that Jesus did for us. So remember this One day. Verse number five. That in some things is that what it says? No, it doesn't. Notice the second point the the opening thoughts that Paul had for the Corinthian Church.

Firstly, they were well acquainted with the grace of God. Secondly that in everything ye are enriched by him. So here we find a people who are not only partakers of the grace of God, but they were enriched.

By Jesus Christ they were enriched. Now, what were they enriched in verse number five in all utterance? That means that these Corinthians were very well taught. And could anyone deny that they were very well taught having Paul himself as one of the men that God Raised up in order to teach them.

I Don't think they lacked in good teaching did they? So automatically the Corinthian Church seems to be even to a degree at an advantage over us. Because none of us were ever personally taught by Paul were we now we've been taught by his epistles.

But I assure you beloved that the epistles that Paul penned and many of them He did half the New Testament is the result of the epistles that Paul penned by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Yet these epistles only reflect a very small reflection of the man Paul himself.

You know when you write a when you read a book. You get a picture or thought of the author you get a piece of the author. But by golly if you sit down and talk with the author the author himself far supersedes The book he wrote.

So so these Corinthians were taught by the Apostle Paul. Partakers of grace taught by Apostle Paul in all utterance and all knowledge. Verse number six. Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you.

That means that they evidenced in their lives The saving grace of God working in them. They evidenced that they were Christians that the Holy Spirit had dwelt in them that they had become new creations in Christ Jesus.

Okay, so so far. It looks like the count the cards are really stacked in their favor, doesn't it? They're really in pretty good shape and here Paul was Introducing to them the thought that he had in his heart.

Verse number seven. So that ye come behind in no gift. Waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall also confirm you unto the end. That ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now God is faithful by whom you were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Now let's go to verse number 10 and look very closely because here we're going to see something Very near and dear to the Lord's heart that apparently the Corinthians were having great difficulties in.

But listen in spite of the fact that they were partakers of the grace of God. They were enriched in utterance. They were enriched in knowledge. They were taught by Paul and many other great apostles and That they evidenced saving grace in their life in spite of all these things.

There was something essentially lacking in their midst. And that is what we want to look at this afternoon. Now I beseech you brethren verse number 10 by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, let's read this real slow.

I'm reading from King James. So it may be a little bit differently. Read in your Bibles, but nevertheless, let's read this slow because this is a big call. This is a big order. I Don't want you to just and I don't want you to sit and get a sermon.

I'm not preaching a sermon. I don't preach sermons. We want to bring something of the Lord's heart something of the Lord's heart. Now Notice the big order here. I beseech I beg I implore you. It's not just a casual asking.

It's a very very intense word. I beg you. I Beg you. Paul says By the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. But it's Paul saying I'm begging you in thee and by the authority of Christ himself. That is as if Christ himself was speaking to you now and begging you.

Beloved verse number 10 reflects something of the Lord's heart for you and I today. Something for the look from the Lord's heart for all Christians everywhere. You know That you all speak the same thing number one.

That there be no division schism. That word means to tear or split apart. But That you'd be perfectly joined or perfectly adjusted together to fit firmly In the same mind and in the same judgment. Now think about this.

Let's read it again. Now I beseech you brethren by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you all speak the same thing. That there be no divisions and schisms and tears and splits among you. But that she be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

It's a big order, isn't it? Verse number 11 shows that the order that was just Expressed by Paul was not being fulfilled. For it has been declared unto me of you my brethren by them which are of the house of Chloe.

That there are contentions among you. Now this I say that every one of you say I am of Paul. And I am of Apollos and I am of Cephas and I am of Christ. It's Christ divided. Was Paul crucified for you or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

I Thank God that I baptized none of you but Crispus and Gaius lest any should say that I had baptized in my own name and I baptized also the household of Stephanus besides. I know not whether I baptized any other.

Verse 17 for Christ sent me not to baptize But to preach the gospel. Not with wisdom of words. Lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. That to be made of no effect literally means to be emptied of its power.

To be emptied of its power. Now beloved now, let's look at this for a few moments and let's pray that God will help us To be able to Grasp and partake a little more fully Something of his heart this afternoon, okay.

Want you to look at verse number 12. A little bit of history here of who she was. Besides Paul using the word I to refer to himself. The word I in that one verse is used how many times? Four times. Okay besides Paul referring to himself in Saying now this I say other than that four times The word I is used.

I would like to Say that the problem in the Corinthian Church and the problem that has continued throughout the age and Is with us to this present hour Is the same problem? And it can be seen With. And by verse number 12, I I I The big I.

Now beloved remember We are looking at a group of Christians Who Knew the grace of God. Were enriched by the gifts of God. Were partakers of the knowledge and utterance of God. Had a testimony of Christ working in them which confirmed the fact that they were genuinely saved.

Were taught by Paul the Apostle and Apollos and several other great men and women of God and yet When they were measured in the balance of God's measuring rod, they were found grossly lacking. Their lack was not based on not being accepted by the Lord they were accepted they were Christians.

Their lack was not based on not having forgiveness. No, they were fully forgiven. Their sins were washed away. Their lack was not based on anything like that. But their lack was based on verse number 17.

For Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the gospel. Not with wisdom of words. Lest the cross of Christ should be emptied of its power. Lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. The lack beloved that was present in the Corinthian Church which has continued to be a lack from generation to generation up to this present time is an Insufficient apprehension an insufficient understanding of the cross of Jesus Christ and the Totality of what it really means to you and I as believers.

Being Crucified With Christ

Turn your Bibles to the book of Galatians. As you're turning your Bibles to the book of Galatians, I'd like to ask a rhetorical question. One that is not To be answered out loud, but you can certainly answer it within your heart as you're turning to Galatians.

Now I beseech you brethren by the name of the Lord that you all speak the same thing. There be no division among you that you be perfectly joined in the same mind and in the same judgment. How many here? have seen that scripture Really demonstrate itself in a corporate way in the church recently.

No division. No schism. No tearing and splitting up of one another the same mind the same judgment the same purpose the same goal the same desires the same Aspirations the same love all working toward the same thing.

Now somebody might say well now that's impossible. Well, if it's impossible beloved then Why does Paul command and beseech the Corinthians that it would be present with them? This same command is applicable to you and I.

John the Baptist was not a political puppet being controlled now. I'll tell you beloved John the Baptist was not interested in saying this tall order Will not be fulfilled. Through the efforts of men.

Through the efforts of organizations. Through the efforts of Christian leaders. About the honor that comes through the efforts of trying to bring everyone under one ecumenical Covering will not be done this way.

You and I Are absolutely powerless To produce What God is asking to be present right now in ourself, we are absolutely powerless to do it and until God brings us all to the place where we Recognize that all of our ideas and all of our schemes and all of our efforts and all of our labor to try and bring about unity and oneness and And the absence of schism and brokenness in our church.

And in our fellowship being one with another Before we can have God do that. We have to be brought to the place where we realize we Can not from ourself Generate or birth anything into being that is going to accomplish what the Lord is after Only God By a sovereign work of the Spirit in our hearts and lives can accomplish that.

Now as I mentioned turning your Bible to Galatians Chapter 2. As we mentioned it is an inappropriate and insufficient Apprehension an insufficient understanding of the cross of Christ. That is the cause of division and schism and brokenness and the dividing that is occurring within the body today an insufficient apprehension.

Okay Galatians chapter 2. Very familiar portion of Scripture, but hopefully by the grace of God it will take on new meaning this afternoon. Galatians chapter 2 verse number 20. Well Now listen carefully, okay.

Do you remember in 1st Corinthians chapter 1 verse number? What was it 12? How many times was the was the pronoun I used? Four times. Okay now Galatians chapter 2 verse number 20. I I Am crucified with Christ.

It is no longer I That liveth or in the King James. This is I'm crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the life of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

Now beloved listen carefully. Paul not only understood the cross of Jesus Christ as The place where the sinner is forgiven. Because the cross of Christ indeed is the place where the sinner is forgiven.

Is he not? Isn't the cross of Jesus Christ the place where by the grace of God we receive forgiveness of sin? Yes Praise God but it's an Insufficient apprehension a limited apprehension One that doesn't go far enough that results in the division and May I say beloved that it is not only the cross of Christ as the place where you and I are Forgiven that we need to get by a revelation of the Spirit of God and the Word of God but it is the fact that not only am I a forgiven sinner, but I am a crucified sinner.

A crucified sinner is One who becomes dead. Doesn't that sound like Paul's teaching in Romans chapter 6 you have died. You are dead and now you are alive unto God. The Corinthians Understood they were forgiven but in order for God to secure in their midst a unity and a oneness and the absence of schism and division.

There had to be a going on with the Lord. There had to be a following on with the Lord and this following on brings us into the revelation That we are crucified with Christ and that big eye. Which is the cause of division.

The pride? The ego the self-will. The greed and the covetousness. The self-life. You see us sinners saved. We very easily can simply continue to do our own thing. Live our own life and glory in the fact that we're forgiven.

That's what the Corinthians were doing. Such a state such a state listen beloved such a state first Corinthians Chapter 3 such a state results in Paul's addressing them as First Corinthians chapter 3 and I brethren could not speak unto you as unto spiritual.

But as unto carnal fleshly Even as unto babes in Christ. I Have fed you with milk and not with me for hitherto. You are not able to bear it neither yet now. Are you able? For ye are yet carnal. Now look at what the characteristics are that Paul described here that made him carnal for whereas there is among you envying and strife and Divisions are you not carnal and walk as men?

Here we go verse 4 for while one says I am of Paul and another I am of Apollos. Are you not carnal? Can you see that the problem with the Corinthian believers? Was not that they lacked the understanding that they were forgiven sinners.

That wasn't the problem. The problem was not that they lacked the fact that they understood the grace of God. They were partakers of the grace of God. The problem was not that they lacked utterance that they were that they were not enriched with good doctrine and good teachings.

They had plenty of good doctrine. They had plenty of good teaching. Did they not Paul himself said it the problem with the Corinthians? Was that they failed to recognize that being a Christian meant that they were not only forgiven But in Christ.

They through the power of the Holy Spirit had to believe God that their old life their own I that old I that I that self-will all the things of our own Self-life was crucified with Christ listen and rejected by God.

Set aside by God. Listen. God does not save us so that we by our own strength and our own wisdom Can serve him and then expect him to bless us. That's not what Christianity is. Christianity is becoming a new creation.

Where we receive the Holy Spirit and by the power of the Holy Spirit We are enabled to put off and disown and die to the old life the old will the old ways and Live our life by the energizing power and life of Christ himself.

Christianity is not us doing something for God. Christianity is God doing his work Through us by the power of the Holy Spirit. Only Christ can do the work of God. Did you know that did you know so many Christians think they can do something for God?

How can you do anything for God? There was only one man that could do anything for God and he did it and he said it is finished. And now there's no other man that needs to do anything for God. You see we've gotten off the basis of Christ as being the all and all of what?

Christianity is and our Christianity has become man-centered. It has become it revolves around man. We we look at God and we see how God can benefit us. What we can get from God. When God wants Christianity to be something altogether different.

Not what we can get from God, but rather what can God get? We know the Lord's only looking for one thing more of his son. More of the expression of his son Jesus Christ, you know, you have no loveliness in yourself.

Do you know that? Do you know that you have no loveliness in yourself apart? Yeah. Cursed is everything that hangeth upon a tree. You say praise God. Jesus became my curse he did. But did you know that Paul said that I am crucified with Christ?

So not only did Christ become a curse, but we ourselves. In our flesh are cursed. We hung with him. Have you seen that has God opened up your eyes to see this? All when God begins to show you this you realize that there is what did Paul say in Romans chapter 7.

There is no good thing that dwelleth in your flesh. No good thing. Your goodness and your kindness if it's coming out of your own self. Beloved it's just as rejected as God as his alcoholism and drugs.

It's all coming from the same tree and the whole tree is corrupt the tree of self. You know self doesn't only have. Quote unquote. The ugly sins self has a lot of nice-looking sins. But if it's coming out of self and it's not the product of Christ.

Manifesting his beauty in our life. God sees right through the religion of it. God sees right through your religion and he says it's rejected of me. Do you remember what happened when Jesus Christ was baptized in the Jordan River and he came up out of the river?

God in heaven spoke and said this is my beloved son in whom I am well-pleased dear beloved. May we forever? Understand and recognize that God is pleased with only one and that is his son Jesus Christ.

The the totality of God's pleasure toward us is based wholly and entirely upon his son and his son's righteousness and his son's life in us and Only to the measure that we are able to express that by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Can we please God? You see Jesus. Jesus alone is the beloved son whom God is well pleased with. And the Corinthians Understood the work of Christ as it related to their forgiveness. They understood the work of Christ as it related to praise God.

He became the sacrifice for me. But they failed to understand that Christ was not only the sacrifice for them but he became the representative man where They died in him. They died in him. Galatians chapter 6.

Verse number 11. You See how large a letter I have written unto you with my own hand. As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh. Now there were some people there who were trying to make a fair show in the flesh.

They were trying to get Christians to get become circumcised so that They looked good in the eyes of the Jew. But now look what Paul says. See what they were trying to do is they were trying to gain acceptance.

They were trying to gain something apart from Christ and Christ alone. Now watch what Paul says here. They constrain you to be circumcised only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

For neither they themselves are circumcised keep the law but desire to have you circumcised as they make glory in your flesh. But God forbid that I should glory. That is God forbid that I should boast.

God forbid that I should brag about anything. Beloved. Do you know. That we have absolutely nothing to brag about nothing to boast in. Absolutely, nothing at all except Jesus Christ. If I see any goodness in you I must give all the credit to Jesus.

And if I see anything crooked, then I must take the credit myself. I Can glory in nothing but Christ. And when this revelation begins to touch the practical aspects of our life. Something begins to happen.

Listen closely. The deeper more fuller meaning of the cross begins to knock on our door. Yes, you've accepted the fact that you're a forgiven sinner. But now as God is knocking in our hearts. Will we accept the fact that we're a crucified sinner, but secondly.

Which means now that I'm forgiven. I That I must come to an end. It's what you have that's self-determination that self-will. And all of those proclivities and the inclinations of the self-life Must come to an end.

So that it is Christ and all of his beauty and all of his character. Being seen in me and through me. I'm a forgiven sinner, but that gossip has got to come to an end. That lying tongue has got to come to an end.

That slanderous speech that jealousy that contention that anger that rage. All of that all of that is part of the eye. That has been crucified. Now beloved, this is all part of the gift and grace of God.

You can't of your own self come to an end and stop. But faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God and as we are enlightened By the Word of God to the fact that we are not only forgiven but crucified.

God can put the faith in our heart and enable us by his power to Accept these things and then God's Spirit can work him in as practically. Wow, this is the great crisis that we're at today. This is the great mountain that must be crossed if we are to realize spiritual maturity in our midst.

Which is God's heart, you know, I have children with the intention of keeping the pacifier in their mouth. Do you know the intention of children is adulthood? Ultimately they children express Vitally the characteristics of their parents and Sometimes that that's not too good, is it?

But see the natural first then the spiritual God's intention is to birth us spiritually into the kingdom so that We through his discipline and his scourging can reflect his very character in nature. Spiritual maturity is not me dressing up in religion looking good and sounding good.

Spiritual maturity is just the opposite spiritual maturity. Is that all I getting out of the way so Christ Can become all and all in my life. Beloved we don't have to have the yoke of bondage on us. We don't have to have that mentality of trying to serve God and trying to do something for God.

God doesn't need us to do anything for him. I'm telling you beloved. Jesus has done it all all to him. I Jesus has done it all and he's still doing it. He's still in the heavens interceding. He's still the author.

He's still the perfecter. He's the substance of our Christianity, he's our new life. It is his character in nature being formed in us that constitutes spiritual maturity. It's so marvelous. It's all Jesus.

But we're gonna have to get our pride dealt with. We're gonna have to get our self-will dealt with. You say well how well the same way that we came to the cross for forgiveness. We must come to the Lord and recognize Oh my god.

Open up my heart open up my eyes and let me see. Let me see Lord the truth. That I am crucified with Christ. Let me see it Lord. Not only let me see it. But begin to work the practical experience of that in my life occurring that.

See he does he does now this is Where we come in to some of the teachings of Jesus that I don't think we've really understood. Turn your Bible to Matthew. As you're turning to Matthew listen to Paul. God forbid that I should glory except in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.

By whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world. Paul saw such an identity with his Savior that he saw that when Jesus died guess who died. Paul died died to what died to sin died to self.

Died to the world. He died to everything in this world and became alive to one person Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ in him alone. That's what Romans chapter 5 6 7 8 is all about. It's the glorious miracle of how we have been literally Transplanted out of the kingdom of darkness and out of Adam into the kingdom of light the last Adam.

And now he is all of our life. He is our life he is our boast. Paul said God forbid that I should glory except in the cross. Do you know why the cross is an offense to people? Do you know why people get offended at the cross.

Because the full meaning of the cross is not limited to forgiveness. Indeed that is a vital part Without which we would have no access to God. But the full meaning of the cross is not limited to forgiveness.

The full meaning of the cross is not only forgiveness, but it is crucified with Christ. The big I must die Beloved. When Paul saw the cross he saw an end To the Apostle Paul in his flesh. He saw an end To all of his glory in his goodness and all of his glory in his self-righteousness.

And all in all of his attempts to serve God and be holy. He saw an end to all that. He saw that he was crucified. God didn't need nor want any of Paul's efforts to make himself. Holy they stunk in God's nostrils.

They stunk. They were as filthy rags in the sight of Almighty God. When Paul saw the cross of Jesus Christ, he saw the old creation completely set aside by God. Rejected by God. Completely God turned its face on it.

He doesn't want anything to do with it anymore now the only thing that God's eyes are upon is his son and those in whom his son dwells. That's it. It's just one new man. Christ is the head and we are the body.

And the head in the body have the same Life. They have the same nature. And God through his working wants us to have the same character. You see children have the same nature as their parents, but oftentimes not the same character.

Character is the product of maturity. We received a brand new nature we became partakers of the divine nature. Did we not? Sure, and as partakers of the divine nature. We're all the potential within that nature is there in order for us to share in the character when we're going.

Jesus Christ the beautiful character of Jesus, but do you know what is that? You know what's necessary for us to share in his character. We must see In a very real way. The things that are not like his character and be given opportunity by God to disown.

And to set aside Matthew chapter 10, you're gonna find that the Lord now remember what we're dealing with. Our initial reading was what? Paul's Desire for the Corinthians on to have no division. To be of the same mind to be of the same judgment.

No schism, no. They did not it will not come about by rallying together. Putting us in the same church building giving us the same denominational name having the same leaders. Coming up with a doctrinal statement that's not going to do it the only way we're going to become one is if God Individually in all of us you feel gives us a more fuller understanding.

But the cross of Christ take your eyes and the fact that we are not only forgiven But crucified and that Christ is our life now walking In the midst of and that Christ alone must have the preeminence in all of our lives.

Stabilized alone. We must pour contempt on our putrid religion while walking to the we must pour contempt on it. Take your eyes off and say anathema to it. You know what anathema means cursed. No, it's cursed by virtue of being crucified with Christ.

And God says cursed is everything that hangeth on a tree that and when Christ became a curse. We believe he became a curse not because he bore his own sins. He bore our sins from the people or our self-life, right?

That was God's verdict on us will go cursed or but I won't leave you in that state and Jesus is showing us I'll give you salvation. I'll put my spirit on a venue but once I put my spirit within you realize and you'll that it's only Christ in you and him coming forth in your life that's blessed and as far as what you are in the flesh.

Stay away from it. Disowning what a Matthew chapter 10. What a wonder what Jesus said. And we're going to read one more story here short story versus 34. Verse number 34. You think not that I'm come to send peace on the earth.

Matthew 10 34. I came not to send peace but a sword. Now beloved listen carefully. We're not reading from right out some commentary here. We're not reading from some author's book. We're reading from the Bible.

God's Word little faith. God's Word here's what the Lord wants. The crime come to set it man. It very it's against his father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And the man's foe shall be they of his own asshole. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. He that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of life. Listen, he that taketh not his cross He is bidding us and followeth after me is not worthy of me.

And to walk verse 39. And He that findeth his life shall lose his sovereign. And he that loses the one because he is walking on the water life. That my sake that shall not only he was on top of the water he that loses his life for my sake shall under his feet.