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Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - When There's Nothing Left to Hold - #4805
It's a fact of life. We will ultimately lose whatever or whoever we've been hanging onto except for the love of Jesus Christ, poured out on that cross. It's not just a cross. It is the only anchor that will be there when there's nothing else to hold onto.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/When-There-s-Nothing-Left-to-Hold...
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Death, Suffering, Hebrews, Grief, The Cross, Your Hard Times
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I’m very curious about whether Jesus used the word “cross” and actually said the phrase “take up your cross” to those who wanted to know what to do to follow him. According to scholarship the gospels were written years after Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. Because Christ’s death was by crucifixtion, I wonder, since the gospel writers of course knew this, if the phrase could have been their invention. It doesn’t undermine the meaning if Jesus did not actually say it. But I think there must be an interesting field of meaning to the word translated as “cross” in order for Jesus to use it to explain his teaching to people who didn’t know how he would die.