cross
krɒs/
noun
plural noun: the Cross
- 1.a mark, object, or figure formed by two short intersecting lines or pieces (+ or ×)."place a cross against the preferred choice"
- 2.an upright post with a transverse bar, as used in antiquity for crucifixion.
synonyms: crucifix, rood "his grave is marked by a bronze cross"
Question: "What did Jesus mean when He said, “Take up your cross and follow Me” (Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23)?"
Answer: Let’s begin with what Jesus didn’t mean. Many people interpret “cross” as some burden they must carry in their lives: a strained relationship, a thankless job, a physical illness. With self-pitying pride, they say, “That’s my cross I have to carry.” Such an interpretation is not what Jesus meant when He said, “Take up your cross and follow Me.”
When Jesus carried His cross up Golgotha to be crucified, no one was thinking of the cross as symbolic of a burden to carry. To a person in the first-century, the cross meant one thing and one thing only: death by the most painful and humiliating means human beings could develop.
Two thousand years later, Christians view the cross as a cherished symbol of atonement, forgiveness, grace, and love. But in Jesus’ day, the cross represented nothing but torturous death. Because the Romans forced convicted criminals to carry their own crosses to the place of crucifixion, bearing a cross meant carrying their own execution device while facing ridicule along the way to death.
Therefore, “Take up your cross and follow Me” means being willing to die in order to follow Jesus. This is called “dying to self.” It’s a call to absolute surrender. After each time Jesus commanded cross bearing, He said, “For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?” (Luke 9:24-25). Although the call is tough, the reward is matchless.
Wherever Jesus went, He drew crowds. Although these multitudes often followed Him as Messiah, their view of who the Messiah really was—and what He would do—was distorted. They thought the Christ would usher in the restored kingdom. They believed He would free them from the oppressive rule of their Roman occupiers. Even Christ’s own inner circle of disciples thought the kingdom was coming soon (Luke 19:11). When Jesus began teaching that He was going to die at the hands of the Jewish leaders and their Gentile overlords (Luke 9:22), His popularity sank. Many of the shocked followers rejected Him. Truly, they were not able to put to death their own ideas, plans, and desires, and exchange them for His.
Following Jesus is easy when life runs smoothly; our true commitment to Him is revealed during trials. Jesus assured us that trials will come to His followers (John 16:33). Discipleship demands sacrifice, and Jesus never hid that cost.https://www.gotquestions.org/take-up-your-cross.html
Answer: Let’s begin with what Jesus didn’t mean. Many people interpret “cross” as some burden they must carry in their lives: a strained relationship, a thankless job, a physical illness. With self-pitying pride, they say, “That’s my cross I have to carry.” Such an interpretation is not what Jesus meant when He said, “Take up your cross and follow Me.”
When Jesus carried His cross up Golgotha to be crucified, no one was thinking of the cross as symbolic of a burden to carry. To a person in the first-century, the cross meant one thing and one thing only: death by the most painful and humiliating means human beings could develop.
Two thousand years later, Christians view the cross as a cherished symbol of atonement, forgiveness, grace, and love. But in Jesus’ day, the cross represented nothing but torturous death. Because the Romans forced convicted criminals to carry their own crosses to the place of crucifixion, bearing a cross meant carrying their own execution device while facing ridicule along the way to death.
Therefore, “Take up your cross and follow Me” means being willing to die in order to follow Jesus. This is called “dying to self.” It’s a call to absolute surrender. After each time Jesus commanded cross bearing, He said, “For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?” (Luke 9:24-25). Although the call is tough, the reward is matchless.
Wherever Jesus went, He drew crowds. Although these multitudes often followed Him as Messiah, their view of who the Messiah really was—and what He would do—was distorted. They thought the Christ would usher in the restored kingdom. They believed He would free them from the oppressive rule of their Roman occupiers. Even Christ’s own inner circle of disciples thought the kingdom was coming soon (Luke 19:11). When Jesus began teaching that He was going to die at the hands of the Jewish leaders and their Gentile overlords (Luke 9:22), His popularity sank. Many of the shocked followers rejected Him. Truly, they were not able to put to death their own ideas, plans, and desires, and exchange them for His.
Following Jesus is easy when life runs smoothly; our true commitment to Him is revealed during trials. Jesus assured us that trials will come to His followers (John 16:33). Discipleship demands sacrifice, and Jesus never hid that cost.https://www.gotquestions.org/take-up-your-cross.html
The Cross is You, Me and US. The World. For God so loved the world that He gave His only BEGOTTEN son John 3.:16
The Cross symbolizes both the children of God exiled here from Heaven (The Garden of Eden) banished here to this foreign land, where our DNA met and mingled with the Natives of this land and God is saving all of those on this Earth:
Jesus spoke gently with those on the outside of the people of God, even those deep in sin, but of those who claimed the name of God, he was sharp and direct. Jesus called the religious leaders “hypocrites,” “blind guides” and “whitewashed tombs … full of the bones of the dead.” That’s far from the kind, subdued way by which he spoke to the woman at the well, or the tax collectors and prostitutes. Likewise, we see perhaps the most angry picture of Jesus in his earthly ministry at the Temple when he took up a whip of cords and drove the sellers out of the holy place.
Why was Jesus so angered? After all, the money-changers were there to do a service for those offering sacrifice. He told us why. “Is it not written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations?’ ” Jesus said. “But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’ ”
The passage Jesus cites is from the prophet Isaiah’s vision of the day when “the foreigners,” those of all the nations, will be brought in to the people of God. “Let no foreigner who is bound to the Lord say, ‘The Lord will surely exclude me from his people,’ ” Isaiah said. “And let no eunuch complain, ‘I am only a dry tree.’ ”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/08/14/russell-moore-white-supremacy-angers-jesus-but-does-it-anger-his-church/?utm_term=.8cee93f061aa
Jesus did not just come for the fallen ones, the decedents of Adam and Eve, as well as the other fallen "angels" The Cross covers both DNA strands and the invitation is extended to everyone: the reason Jesus said I came to give you a new Commandment that you love one another as I have loved you.
John 13:34 Good News Translation (GNT)
34 And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
We shall pick up our cross and we shall carry it, for Jesus first carried us. We are the cross, we are the burden we are the children of the living God and our cross is defending the children of God of this Earth, for which is HEART!
Our every day lives, is not about parties, clothes, appointments, meetings, budgets, it's about LOVE. The Bible is not religion, it's our history book. We don't look at Jonathan Kleck and his ministry with condemnation, if we seek, God shall lead us and where He leads we will follow. Blasphemy! Many people have discovered this word again. Remember everything we know is hidden truth dipped and hidden in lies. Relax in prayer and focus on the Love of Jesus. The BE Attitudes! This is what we need to be. Farms in SA should not be looking to run away. No. Our God is an awesome God. There is a great hunger coming on this Earth, Cyril Ramaphosa is feeling in his spirit that he needs to get the ground planted, worked and growing. We have to come together as a nation now, and work as a team, this is about money, but it's more important, this is about feeding the nations. One man cannot destroy this nation. Do not give him the satisfaction of success, crush him and do the opposite, always keep your enemy in surprise. Do not leave SA. Stay and fight to farm, you are required!
Life begins at the cross, life always waits at the crossroads of life, choices, we must choose, choose wisely. We either advocate peace, or we are the children of destruction, I choose life, and in choosing life in Christ, The I that is "ME", slips away and Love becomes my heartbeat.
Bob Marley: One Love. Who wrote this song?
The are two Spirits in this world and this comes from the love of Jesus Christ!
This is the heartbeat of Heaven, this is what we need to be!
Let's get together to fight this Holy Armageddon (One Love!)
So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom (One Song!)Have pity on those whose chances grows thinner
There ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation
Sayin': "One Love"! What about the One Heart? (One Heart!)
What about the - ? Let's get together and feel all right
I'm pleadin' to mankind! (One Love!)
Oh, Lord! (One Heart) Wo-ooh!
What about the - ? Let's get together and feel all right
I'm pleadin' to mankind! (One Love!)
Oh, Lord! (One Heart) Wo-ooh!
Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One Love!)
There is one question I'd really love to ask (One Heart!)
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own beliefs?
There is one question I'd really love to ask (One Heart!)
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own beliefs?
One Love! One Heart!
Let's get together and feel all right
Hear the children cryin' (One Love!)
Hear the children cryin' (One Heart!)
Sayin': give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right
Sayin': let's get together and feel all right. Wo wo-wo wo-wo!
Hear the children cryin' (One Love!)
Hear the children cryin' (One Heart!)
Sayin': give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right
Sayin': let's get together and feel all right. Wo wo-wo wo-wo!
Rastafari Colours:
The red, yellow, and green colors of Rastafari are pretty ubiquitous, although most people probably associate them more with Bob Marley and ganja than they do any spiritual movement. However, many people don’t realize there are actual four Rasta colors.
The movement took much influence from Marcus Garvey, and the colors of his own movement were red, green, and black. The Rastafari later saw Haile Selassie I as Jesus, and the colors of the Ethiopian flag were red, green, and yellow, so another addition was made, with four colors in total.
These colors all have symbolic significance in Rastafari beliefs. The yellow color is said by some to refer to the wealth of their homeland in Africa. The red is perhaps unsurprisingly symbolic of blood and the martyrdom of past Rastafari. The color black is an obvious reference to the black people who originally started the Rastafari movement in order to return to their roots, and the green is related to the abundant plant life of their native homeland.
In case you were still curious—no, the Rastafari colors really don’t have anything to do with smoking ganja.
https://listverse.com/2014/01/06/10-things-to-know-about-rastafari-beliefs/
[37] Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. [38] This is the first and greatcommandment. [39] And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbouras thyself. [40] On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Time to stop worshiping in separate churches, children of God unite!
So that when this happens:
we respond with this:
It's not racism..........they hate your birth right, they hate you because you have life! It's not racism....it's an attack on Christ! It's the dead coming for the living and we have got to stop turning on each other. We are drowning because we refuse to reach out and link chains with each other that we may stand against the attack. Stubbornness is death and death equals death, hatred is death and death equals death.
LOVE: Lets's get together and feel alright!
Give thanks and praise to the Lord!
One Love! One Heart!
Let's get together and feel all right
Hear the children cryin' (One Love!)
Hear the children cryin' (One Heart!)
Sayin': give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right
Sayin': let's get together and feel all right. Wo wo-wo wo-wo!
Let's get together and feel all right
Hear the children cryin' (One Love!)
Hear the children cryin' (One Heart!)
Sayin': give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right
Sayin': let's get together and feel all right. Wo wo-wo wo-wo!
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