Luke 9:21-23
21 And He strictly warned and commanded them to tell this to no one, 22 saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.” 23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
Being the Christ, the Messiah, Jesus said He would suffer, be rejected by religious leaders, be killed (on a cross), and then come back to life from death. If we are to follow Him, we go where He went. This means we suffer and are rejected for the truth as we head toward willing sacrificial death for His sake - but also partake of life unending beginning now and into eternity. Truly the sufferings of the present are as nothing than the far greater to come. So we deny satisfying what we want from life to lay it down for Him and others to know.
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