Denying Ourselves? Part 2 (TMF:1446)

Monday, August 31, 2020
Peace to Live By: Denying Ourselves? Part 2 (TMF:1446) - Daniel Litton
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       When Christ talks about becoming his disciple, the first thing he mentions here is that a person must deny himself. Now, what does this mean? I think those of us who have become Christians at a later age (not as a child) can easily identify what this means. We know what we were like before we became believers. We know the kind of life that we lived. And what did we do when we became a Christian? Well, we denied ourselves, right? We denied our sinful flesh the right to rule over us anymore, and we died to this world and following its ways. When we deny something, we take the opposing side. When Peter denied Jesus, he said he didn’t know him, and he put himself on the other side of the fence in regard to being Christ’s follower. In essence, he said, “No, I am not a follower of Christ.” And he did this to get out of any possibility of being arrested and condemned. Well, we did the same thing in the opposite way when we accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior. When we believed on him for the forgiveness of sins, we said “I am not going to follow the world’s way any longer.