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Pastor Danny Scotton, Sr. shares a sermon entitled, "'Discipleship Begins and Ends With Cross-Bearing" from Mark 8:34-38 at Alpha Baptist Church in Willingboro, NJ during the March 13, 2022 Sunday Service live stream.

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Sermon Sources Quoted:

Ryle, J. C. Expository Thoughts on Mark. London: William Hunt, 1859.

Pastor Dave. The Federated Church of Sturbridge and Fiskdale sermon, September 12, 2021. 

Wiersbe, Warren W. The Bible Exposition Commentary. Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1996.

Wells, Dale. Palm Desert Beach Church of Christ sermon, January 8, 2012.

Editor's Note:
One who isn't cross-bearing does not have real faith(fulness). They don't have saving faith and thus are not saved.

In this passage, salvation (cf. Mk 8:35) is at stake. Those who try to save their earthly life will lose their spiritual life; and those who seek to lose their earthly life for Christ and the Gospel, will save their spiritual life. 

The forfeiture of one's soul (Mk 8:36-37) and the judgment of the Son of Man (Mk 8:38; cf. Dn 7:13-14; Jn 5:22-23; Ac 17:30-31, etc.) await those who are ashamed of Christ and His words -- those who refuse to deny self, take up their cross, and follow Christ (Mk 8:34).