Today I want to look at John 18, John 18, and verse 36 through
37. Jesus you know here we're going
to see he's standing before pilot right, The governor and
pastor read this Sunday and said Jesus answered, my Kingdom is
not of this world for if my Kingdom were of this world, then
my servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over
to the Jews. But as it is, my Kingdom is not
of this realm, right and verse 37.
Therefore Pilate said to him, So you are a king.
And Jesus answered, You say correctly that I am a king.
Listen to this. And for this I have been born.
I've been born. And then he goes on to say, And
for this I have come into the world to what?
Testify to truth. Everyone who is of truth hears
my voice. Hallelujah.
Everyone that is of truth. Whose truth?
Our truth. No, His truth, actually.
The King's truth, Amen. Hears his voice, Hallelujah.
But what stood out to me is this, he said for this I was
born. And you know, we're moving into
Easter Sunday at the resurrection of Christ.
And actually, if you go through, you should go through this week
until Sunday and read just the journey the week before his
crucifixion, right? You should do that.
Get that in your heart. Get it in your heart.
Meditate on those scriptures because it'll remind you of the
price that he paid, but not only the price that he paid to look
at some different maybe perspectives rather than just
the fact that he died on that cross rose again so that one day
we could be in heaven with him. No, Looking at the perspective
of some of these things when you read it, to see that he had a
lot of other intentions just as well as not just dying so that
we could be saved, but he also died so that we could what live.
He died so that we could live freely in His Kingdom, but not
only live freely in His Kingdom, but also to know that we have a
plan and a purpose for our lives, that he had a plan and a
purpose for our life. So he says here, you say
correctly, I am a king. And for this I have been born.
Do you know how many young people are still asking the
question, why am I here? What am I supposed to be doing
with my life? And if you'll take the time to
discover the same thing that Jesus discovered is that he knew
why he was born. He knew he had a purpose and he
knew there was a plan and he fulfilled the assignment that
God had for his life. And the cross was just part come
on of his assignment and the purpose that God had for his
life. And so as we're reading through
these scriptures, Matthew 26, actually the whole chapter, you
can start reading that journey of Jesus going through all the
different things that he went through, the betrayal of Judas,
right? Being brought before Pilate,
being brought before, what is it, Caiaphas?
You know, all the different things and read it by really
just opening up your heart to discover those other
perspectives. And so he says, listen, This is
why I was born. So He knew His purpose now, just
as pastor had said as well on Sunday, which let me get to that
in a minute. But really where I want to go is
here where we see Him in the garden, where we see Him in the
garden in Matthew 26 verse 39. And it says, And He went a
little beyond them, those disciples that were supposed to
be watching and praying with Him, he went a little beyond
them. And he fell on his face.
And he prayed, saying, Father, if it is possible, let this cup
pass from me yet, not as I will, but as your will.
Or not my will be done, but what your will be done.
And so here we see this moment where he told Pilate I know what
I was born to do. We see the same moment during
this whole time where he says I know what I'm supposed to do.
I know my purpose. I know that I am going to have
to do the will of the Father. I'm going to have to obey Him.
I'm going to have to do the plan.
I'm going to have to do the assignment.
I'm going to have to do the purpose.
But you know what? I would rather not have to be
killed. I would rather not have to go
through His will. His will, and what He wanted was
that he would not have to go through this plan.
He knew it was the plan. He knew it was the purpose.
He knew it was the assignment. But he knew he was getting ready
to endure suffering and death. And in his humanity, his will
didn't want to do it in the natural.
And we're going to see why I'm focusing on this because a lot
of times we look back and we think, well, if God has a plan
for us and a purpose for us and, and an assignment for us, that
we'll never encounter anything that would be in an A place of
suffering or having to endure through some challenges, even
some scourging, maybe not physical, but he's saying all
along, it's not my will. I mean, if it was up to me, I
wouldn't want to have to do that in the natural.
But your will be done. Your will be done.
And what do we know was the Father's will?
That He would die on that cross. That He would die on that cross.
Now look at Matthew 16. Matthew 1621 through 26, it says
this from that time Jesus began to show his disciples.
He was preparing his disciples right?
In Matthew 16, we're we've already read 26, so we know the
end of the story. But I'm saying before that he
was preparing his disciples and showing them that he must go to
Jerusalem and what endure many things of the hands of the
elders, the chief priests, the scribes, and what be killed and
be raised from death to life on the third day.
And what happened to his wonderful friend Peter, his
disciple, when he heard this, he took him aside to speak to him
privately. I'm reading out of the amplified
and begin to reprimand him, or one translation says, rebuke
him. Say, May God forbid it.
This will never happen to you. And what did Jesus say?
He said to Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan.
Get behind me, Satan, you are a stumbling block to me.
Oh, there's so much that could be said here.
You're a stumbling block to me. For you're not setting your mind
on things of God, but on the things of man.
And then Jesus said to his disciples, 00 Jesus said to his
disciples, are we disciples or followers of Christ?
Hallelujah? Did he just say it to these
disciples? Or is there still being
disciples being made today? Are you a true disciple?
Because actually this Scripture is going to show us in
determining to us if we're truly a disciple of his.
And so he said to his disciples, if anyone wishes to follow me as
my disciples, he must deny himself, set aside selfish
interest and take up his cross. I have said in churches, church
now for over 35 years, and I've heard the statement, aren't you
glad that you don't have to die on that cross, that Jesus paid
it all and did it all? And I would say, yes, I'm glad
that I didn't have to die as he died, but there's still a cross
that I have to die on. And we forgot about preaching
that in the American church today.
We all have a cross. We all have a cross.
We wear it around our neck really good.
So he says he must deny himself, set aside his selfish interest,
take up his cross, expressing A willingness to endure whatever
may come and follow me, believing in me, conforming to
me example in living and if need be, suffering or perhaps dying
because of what faith in me. So 25 For whoever wishes to save
his life in this world will eventually lose it through
death. But whoever chooses to lose his
life in this world for my sake will find it, that is life with
me for all eternity. For what would it profit a man
if he gains this whole world wealth, fame, success, but
forfeits his soul? Or what will man give in
exchange for his soul? And the title of my message is
tonight, pass the cup. Not just let this pass cup, but
I called it pass the cup because you could look at that term in
two ways. You could say pass the cup.
Yeah, I want to drink, or you could say pass the cup.
I don't want any part of it. And I believe a lot of believers
are passing the cup on true discipleship because they're not
willing to carry the cross. And we're going to see this in a
minute. So you could also say pass the
cup. And as I was meditating on that,
he I was reminded of another term that's been said for years.
Or pass the buck and pass the buck.
I like that because it all has to do with not picking up your
own responsibility and the things that God has assigned you
and the plans that God has for your life and the purpose that
he has for you is that a lot of people want to just pass the
buck. Well, I'm not willing to do that
for the nursery, but let somebody else do it or I'm not
willing to, you know, sacrifice my time to go and serve.
So and so there's other people in the church can that can do
it. So are we passing the buck of
responsibility that actually God has for us now?
Let's continue reading because remember, Pastor, on Sunday as I
was going through, I was reading, you know, the whole
chapters and going through all the scriptures and I thought,
wow, isn't that what they did when he said on Palm Sunday,
they came into town saying Hosanna to the king.
But then they were saying, hell, O King Jesus, we welcome you.
But then that hell became a bail.
They bailed on the king. They bailed on the king.
And people are still bailing on the king today.
They're still bailing. OK, So let's look at a couple of
things. So we know that Jesus came and
knew his purpose, but he also knew that that cross was part of
his purpose and part of His assignment to fulfill for the
Father. But he let us know as those that
want to be his disciples and true followers of Him, that
there's a cross that we're going to have to pick up.
What is our cross? That plan, that purpose, that
assignment that God has for each and every one of us as a
believer, as a disciple in the Kingdom of God.
Look at John 19, John 1914 through 17 said this, I'm just
going to continue to read here. This is where it he said now it
was the day of preparation for the Passover week and it was
about the 6th hour. And he said to the Jews, look
your king. But what did they shout?
Away with him, away with him, crucify him.
And Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your king?
And the chief priest answers, We have no king but Caesar.
And then the he handed him over to them to be crucified.
Now verse 17, look at this. So they took Jesus and he went
out. What did he do?
Burying his own cross, Burying his own cross to the place
called the Place of Skull, which is called, you know, Gal Gotha.
Burying his own cross. He had to do it, but he expected
that his disciples would follow in the same footsteps.
And, you know, we talk about the fact that, oh, aren't you
thankful that he laid down his life so that we wouldn't have to
die? But, you know, there's people
that are dying today. There's martyrs sitting up
underneath the throne that have been murdered, following Christ
and not denying him in the face of death.
And we are living in a time where it's still happening.
And actually, if you look at the statistics, still Christians are
the number one religion that is martyred even in our lifetime,
that are killed and persecuted Christians around the world.
If you have never went outside of the United States of America,
you need to. You need to, because then you'll
see and realize. How blessed we truly are as a
nation, as bad as it is even getting.
But if we don't stand as believers come on and proclaim
and testify of the truth, we're going to see it go the other
way. Amen.
So look what Jesus said. I there's so much in my heart
just because, you know, again, we've turned American has turned
Easter into the Easter Bunny focus and egg hunts and egg
drops and whatever. I don't, you know, personal
convictions, whatever, that's on you.
But the thing about it is, is I do not want my children or
grandchildren to think that that's all Easter is about.
No, I want them to know the price that was paid.
And so we don't hide eggs, we hide the rock, we hide the
rocks. We hide rocks and, and and
pastor teaches them about the rock and who is the rock and
that the rock was rolled away. Come on.
So you can be creative and not have to fall into what it's
become because that's not what it's about.
Amen. So John chapter 4 verse 34, look
at this, Jesus said to them, my food is to do the will of him
who sent me, and to completely finish his work.
And we know that Jesus certainly said on that cross, it is
finished. He did the will of the Father
and he said, I have finished the work, I've stripped.
Come on the enemy of all of his power, of everything that he
would have against man being able to come into the Kingdom of
God. I finished it.
I did His will, I did the purpose and the plan that God
had for my life. John 5:30 It says I can do
nothing on my own initiative. As I hear, I judge and my
judgement is just just because I do not seek my own will.
But the what will of him who sent me?
Are we as disciples and followers picking up our own
cross that He has for each and every one of our life?
And are we focused on accomplishing His will and
getting things accomplished for Him?
Or are we focused on come on my own will, getting things
accomplished for my business, getting things accomplished for
what I'm doing, getting things accomplished for this and for
that and for that. And you're so full of trying to
accomplish all these other things when all along he's
saying, but what about my will? Are you pursuing that as much as
you are pursuing all these other things because I have something
for you to do. I have a plan for you to do.
And Jesus said, listen, his I mean, there are 10 scriptures
that said he was only here to do the will of the Father and that
that was all he was focused on is accomplishing and being
obedient to what God had planned for his life.
Amen. Now look at Matthew 10, Matthew
1038. We already read Matthew 16 where
he said to his disciples, you know what they needed to do?
Pick up their cross. Now here it is in Matthew 1038
and 39 it says this, and he who does not take his cross.
And follow after me is not worthy of me.
Whoever does not take his cross, he's saying whoever, whosoever
shall call on his name, it's the same whoever come on that he's
talking to. He's not just talking to the
five fold ministry. The apostles have got to do His
will. The pastors have to do his will.
The teachers have to surely do his will.
The prophets of course, have to do his will.
Come on. No, he's saying whosoever those
that call themselves a disciple, they have a cross that they
should be carrying. And he's saying it's time to
pick up your cross. He's saying it's time to pick up
your cross because he says you're not going to be worthy of
me. And look, in verse 39, he says
he who has found life will lose it.
So you think not doing the will picking up your cross and we're
going to see, I'm going to talk about this in a minute.
And, and doing your plan and doing the things you want to do
isn't matter, doesn't matter, he says.
You're going to lose your life. You're going to lose your life.
And he's not just talking about in the afterlife.
You're going to lose your life for my sake, he says.
And he who has lost his life for my sake will what?
Find it, find it. So that was Matthew 1038.
Let's look what Luke had to say. And Luke 923 through 25.
So you need to look at these scriptures through all the
different, you know, ones that wrote it so that you can see all
the different angles of the details that they said
differently. So in Luke 923 and 25 it says
this. And he was saying to them all,
if anyone wishes to follow me as my disciple, he must deny
himself, set aside selfish interest.
Just circle that in the amplified highlight it 15 times
because we're living in the I am selfish generation and world.
And so he says and take up his cross.
Oh, here's a little side that the other scripture didn't say,
take up your cross. What?
Oh, daily. So this is not just a one time
event. Oh, I did it.
You know, I did it for 25 years. But now it's time for me to live
for me. I sacrificed for 25 years
following and doing everything that God asked me to do in the
church. So now I'm going to go retire
and I'm going to do for me and my interest and myself and what
I want to do and what I desire and what I what pleases me.
Come on. No, he says daily.
He says daily. I have to choose to pick up my
cross daily expressing. This is what the amplifies,
expressing a willingness. Oh this goes back to the will.
Willingness to endure whatever may come.
So does he promise us that once we get born again and we're a
believer, that everything is going to be beautifully perfect?
Rose petals along our life as a believer and everybody's going
to love us and everything's going to be wonderful and we're
never going to have to suffer again?
No, not in this life. Not going to happen.
That's a fairy tale and magical
thinking. I don't live for the Magic
Kingdom, I live for the Kingdom of God.
I live for the Kingdom of God and he says we're going to have
to endure whatever may come. And what?
Follow me, believing in me, conforming to me, not conforming
to what all the social influencers say about how you
should go to church and what church should be for you.
I mean, this is the society we're living in and people are
listening to this garbage and they're forfeiting their cross.
They're forfeiting their cross, They're forfeiting it.
So he says, listen, believing in me and conforming to my example.
Not so and so's opinion about what they think about church, it
says, and if need be, maybe even suffering, that you may do have
a little suffering that happens in your life.
For what? For dying because of faith in me
suffering, perhaps dying. And then he goes on to say, For
whoever wishes to save his life in this world will eventually
lose it through death. But whoever loses his life in
this world for my sake, he is the one who will save it from
the consequences of what sin and separation from God?
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world well,
fame, success, but loses and forfeits himself, forfeits
himself. So what does it mean to take up
your cross? To pick up your cross?
It literally means that he has a plan, a purpose, and an
assignment for each and every single one of us.
Every single day there is a cross that we are to pick up,
which is His will for our life. Daily, daily Am I walking in His
will daily choosing to do what He is requiring and asking of me
through his plan for the day, through His purpose for the day,
through whatever it is that God is asking of me.
And listen, we've made this into, well, He's not called me
to go to Africa or anything. I'm not a missionary, you know,
or I'm not a pastor. Every single disciple has a
purpose and a plan and an assignment for their life.
And that's assignment is found in walking the Kingdom life out
every single day. So we can ask ourselves, am I in
the will of God doing what he is requiring of me to do every
minute of every day, every 24 hours in a day?
And if I can sit back and say I I'm doing everything that God
has asked me to do today, whatever it is, if he's asked me
to go to Walmart and go down aisle 4 and lay hands on a
person, guess what? Guess what?
I'm doing His will. I'm going to go to Walmart.
That's an assignment that he has for me.
That's my cross that I'm to pick up today and go do today to be a
follower and a disciple of his today.
Or if he's asking me today to make a meal in my house for my
sister that just had a baby and I want to be able to be a
blessing to her, then guess what?
That's my assignment today. That's my cross to carry today.
And I'm being obedient to pick up my cross and do whatever he's
telling me to do daily. And guess what?
And today, if he tells me, you know what, I want you to go to
that person and tell them that you're sorry and ask them to
forgive you because maybe you did something towards them and
they may not even know it, but God spoke it to my heart.
I'm going to pick up my cross. I'm going to do His will.
And I'm going to go to that person because I'm going to obey
Him daily and say, please forgive me.
Whatever it is. It's an assignment that he's
speaking to each and every one of us every single day for
whatever it is that he wants us to do.
Amen. That is our cross.
So he's saying that word means the cross to pick up, take, take
hold of it, lay hold of it. You have a responsibility to lay
hold of the cross that he has for you to carry.
You have to pick it up just like Jesus had to pick up that cross
and carry it through the streets of Golgotha.
Come on and bring it to them, knowing that this I'm getting
ready to hang. On this very.
Thing that I'm carrying to my death.
He had to obey. He had.
To pick it up, he had to lay hold of the will of God for his
life. He had to carry it upon.
That's what it means. Carry it upon oneself every.
Single one of us have. A cross to carry upon ourselves.
And we've put it all. On him and he did it all and he,
he died on that cross so that we don't have to do anything that
is not true. It's not truth of the God's
Word. It's not truth.
We have a cross that we are to bear, that we are to get up
under, that we are to take hold of, that we're to carry and walk
out daily as a disciple and follower of Christ.
And you know what's so sad is in the American church, a Christian
can't even just attend service. And you think you're going to?
Carry a cross. Or that you're going to.
Endure until the end. If you can't even endure coming
to a 2 hour service, come on. It's magical thinking.
It's fairy tale. It's a fairy tale and people are
buying the lies. They're buying the lies and we
have to, we have to be having better moral clarity than that.
To not get sucked into. That deception of.
What is? Happening in the world.
So he said carry it, take it up. What does it mean to claim as
one's own possession? When you look that word up, to
claim as one's own possession? So there's a cross and Jesus has
it right there for you. And he's saying go ahead and
claim it. Do you know how people how many
don't claim it? How many don't claim?
The cross for. Themselves they want to claim.
That cross but they don't want to claim this one just saying
make it your own take possession of it.
It means to reach after it. That means there's something
that you have to also strive after.
Oh, there is no striving. We're under grace.
Oh no, there is a cross that we are meant to carry.
And for us to carry it, that means we are going to have to
reach for it. We're going to have to strive
for it. Because if we don't strive to do
the will of the Father, everything else is buying for
our time and we'll do everything else except that because we
think it's free and we don't have a responsibility.
We pass the buck, we pass the cup.
What? Is the cross across the?
Cross is a place of self denial in a world of selfishness that
we are living. We are so full of.
Self in this generation that we're forgetting the truth.
Of God's Word. Self denial is what that cross
stands for. Willing to die to self.
Self-interest it. Literally means.
To deny utterly, I have to deny utterly that I would rather be
living on a private island. Come on.
In my own garden tropical garden in the.
Cool of the day. Me and God all by myself.
Come on that. Is self denial saying I choose
to do his will rather than what I desire, what my interests are,
what I think the plan of God is for my life?
It's self denial, utterly. That's what it means to utterly
disown and forget oneself. Nobody is wanting to do that
today, to utterly forget yourself, to lose sight.
Of your own. Interest.
Oh, I. Have interest in sports?
Oh, I have interest in hunting. Oh, I have interest in boating.
Oh, I have interest. And all of these interest could.
Come before you. Picking up your cross daily?
Nothing. Wrong with these things.
If you have your priorities straight, then I'm going to do
His will and if oh if this is what he needs me to do today,
then guess what? The boat ain't happening.
But see, you talk like this. And you know, it's all over
social media. Of how you should.
Not go to a church that tells you that you can't do things of
yourself. That's how they say.
It and it looks so. Sweet and lovely, but it's sly
and. Not the truth of God.
'S word. Self denial.
So you know Paul said this, he said what I die to myself daily.
And he says. That we are to what daily?
So how do we die? The cross is a place of
crucifixion, right? But it was only for Jesus.
But the cross is a place of crucifixion.
And he says each and every one of us have that cross as a
disciple to carry and to bear under and to do the same will
purpose and plan that he has for our lives.
And he lets us know that this is a daily thing.
And that you know what? If he's saying I'm going to have
to what? Crucify myself?
What I'm going to have to do it daily.
I'm going to have to choose daily to deny what I want to do
if God's saying, but I want you to do this.
So I'm going to crucify. I'm.
Going to die on that. Cross.
I'm going to crucify myself today to do the will and the
plan of God that He has for my life today, whatever that may
be. And again, we're thinking that
some big thing, it's not. It's daily things, daily.
Things. That we are having to crucify
and put under so that we are not letting self-interest rise up.
It's daily things. That's why he says we're going
to have to do it daily. Jesus had to do it what, once
and for all? But we have to do it every
single day. If we're going to carry our
cross, we're going to. Have to do it daily.
And we're going to have to choose to die to self daily to
do the plan and the purpose that God has for our life.
Amen. Do you believe that God has a
plan for your life? Yeah.
God has a plan for. Your life.
He says this in Matthew 721. He says not everyone who says to
me Lord, Lord will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only who,
who, what does the will of my Father.
He who does the will. He who does the plan, He who
does the purpose, He who does the assignments, the things that
He has for us to do, He who has recognition that I have a cross
that I am carrying every single day and I have to choose to do
the will of the Father today. Those are going to be the ones
that enter the Kingdom of God. Those are going to be the ones
Matthew 1254 Whoever does the will of my Father who is in
heaven, He is my what? Brothers and sisters.
Those that do the will, Oh, we're all God's children.
No, you're not. He says he who does the.
Will going back to the will of the Father, that's what Jesus
had to do when he picked up that cross.
He had to say and make a decision.
I'm going to do with the will of the Father, not my will, but
your will be done. Jeremiah 29 So let's look and
see He says, for I know the plans that I have for you.
So he has plans for us. He has a cross for us to carry,
declares the Lord. Plans for your what?
Welfare not for your calamity, but to what give you a hope and
a future so his. Plans for.
You are for a good life, a hope and a future for you to live in
the Kingdom full of everything that He has for your life.
But you have to choose. I'm going to lay, hold and take
possession of it by doing whatever it is that He's asking
of me to do. I'm going to lay down myself and
I'm going to pick up my cross and do it no matter what it
takes. I'm going to disown myself, and
I'm going to pick up His cross and carry it.
Ephesians 210 For we are His workmanship, His own master work
of art, created in Christ Jesus, born from above, spiritually
transformed. Why are you spiritually
transformed, renewed, ready to be used, ready to be used for
good works which He prepared for us beforehand, taking paths,
plans, paths what? Which He said so that you would
walk in them, living the good life.
Which he prearranged and made ready for us all.
Hallelujah, He has a plan for us all.
Look at Proverbs 1921. Many plans are in a man's mind.
Many. Plans are in a man.
'S mind, but it is the Lord's purpose for him that will stand
and be carried out. So he lets us know.
There's lots of plans and men have plenty of ideas and plans
usually. But it's his purpose.
That's going to be the thing that's going to prevail.
And so you can have all the plans you want, but if it's not
his purpose, then guess what? It's never going to prevail.
It's not going to work out. You're going to forfeit your
soul, right? You're going to gain, maybe.
The whole world, but forfeit your soul.
You're going to lose out because it's not his plan and never was
his plan for your Life OK? For your wife?
For your life or your wife if you're married.
OK. Now look at here.
I want to move because I really wanted to be done.
But that isn't happening but. Maybe we.
Can just close. With this Hebrews. 1036.
It says this for you have need of patient endurance to bear up
under difficult circumstances without compromising, so that
when you have carried out the will of God, you will receive
and enjoy the full promise. Come on up.
Todd of what he had for you, We're going.
To have to. Right.
Walk through circumstances, situations.
And the thing about it is, is we're going to have to realize
that we should want to be doing the will of God through every
situation. No matter what we encounter,
there's going to be things we're going to just have to walk
through and endure through. There's going to.
Be things that we may. Have to suffer.
And again, I'm not talking about sickness and disease because God
does not put sickness and disease on you to make you
suffer. And but there's things in this
fallen world and things that trials and tribulations that we
all have to walk through. And how many have seen
Christians that don't actually walk through some situations
properly and. In the end.
They are bankrupt, no longer attending church, no longer
going to church, no longer, you know, married.
They've divorced, you know, because why?
Because they didn't walk through some things in life properly.
And they, you know, end. Up in destruction.
And so again, every one of us have to say, you know what I'm
going to in whatever I encounter, I'm going to say,
Lord, what is your will in this situation?
What is your plan in this situation?
What do I need to do? Because we can be just like
Jesus and say, I don't say and I don't do anything unless I've
heard it and seen it from the Father.
So again, that's why it's so important that we are in the
Word of God and reading His truth, not listening to everyone
else's truth. But what does His truth say?
And that's what I'm sticking with.
That's what I'm standing on in whatever I'm going through.
And I'm going to navigate this by picking up my cross and
carrying it and daily dying to what I want to do.
I may want to respond a certain way to a circumstance or
situation, but guess what I have to do?
Die to self if God's saying that's not what the Word says.
That's not what I want. You to do in this situation,
that's not the plan that I had for you to do.
In this. Scenario.
And So what do I have? To do, I have to say fine, I'm
going to do. Your will and your.
Plan in this and guess. What we?
Will see, we will see the fruit of it in our life and it won't
end in destruction or death or, you know, all kinds of
scenarios, drama in people's life that they just every, I
mean, you know, every week there's some catastrophic,
dramatic thing that's happening in their life.
You know, people like that, even believers.
Every time you talk to him, you never see him in church, but
every time you talk to him, there's something terrible going
on that ought to. Be able to help.
You make a connection. Right.
And so. Again, we must be people that
realize during this week when you see that cross, it's yours.
It's yours for you to pick up and for you.
To carry.