Denying Ourselves Part 2 – Luke 9:23

What does it mean to “take up our cross?”

And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” Luke 9:23 ESV

Being crucified on a cross was a horrible way to die. Actually, it was more of a torture that resulted in death. The Romans had made it into a science. It was hours of excruciating pain and suffocation that only eventually ended in death.

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