³⁴ Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross (daily) and follow me. ³⁵ For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.”
Mark 8:34,35

“What’s the use of you learning to do right, when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong.” —Huckleberry Finn

“Deny yourself” = deny your SELF.

1) Say

to self.

¹⁶ So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.
Galatians 5:16,17

• Our selfish
  Reveal Answer
  to rise above others.

• Our selfish
  Reveal Answer
  to get what we want when we want it.

• Our selfish
  Reveal Answer
  of caring only for our own interests.

• Our selfish
  Reveal Answer
  to put our needs first above anyone else.

2) Say

to Christ.

• The Cross today is a symbol of salvation, forgiveness, love.

• The Cross in Biblical times was a symbol of pain, suffering, death.

Have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: ⁶ Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; ⁷ rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. ⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!
Philippians 2:5b-8

“Jesus has many who love the kingdom of God, but few who bear a cross. He has many who desire His comfort, but few who desire His suffering. All want to rejoice with him, but few are willing to suffer for Him. He writes; there are many who admire his miracles, but there are few who follow in the humiliation of the cross.” —Theologian, Thomas A. Kempis

3) Follow Me.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came so that they would have life, and have it abundantly.
John 10:10

For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. ²⁰ Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
Romans 7:18b-20

²⁴ What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? ²⁵ Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Romans 7:24,25a

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man (Adam), and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned.
Romans 5:12

For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!
Romans 5:17

⁸ Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ⁹ For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. ¹⁰ The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. ¹¹ In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. ¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. ¹³ Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. ¹⁴ For sin shall no longer be your master…
Romans 6:8-14a

90 Day Memory Statement

I am His child, deeply loved, totally forgiven, fully pleasing and complete in Christ.