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Andrew Murray on taking up the Cross

Posted on January 28, 2013 Written by Mark McIntyre 1 Comment


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Christians need to understand that bearing the cross does not in the first place refer to the trials which we call crosses, but to the daily giving up of life, of dying to self, which must mark us as much as it did the Lord Jesus., which we need in times of prosperity almost more than adversity, and without which the fullness of the blessing of the cross cannot be disclosed to us.

-Andrew Murray


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