Php 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross.
Php 3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you
often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
Heb 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before
him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Embracing the Power of the Cross-Pastor Carter Conlon, Times Square Church
Below you will find links to material I have
found on the subject of the cross mentioned in the New Testament. This teaching not only illustrates the necessity of the
believer understanding what the cross was about in the life of Jesus Christ, but what it means to us, and how this understanding
will change our life and walk with the Lord. If we do not understand and follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit to the cross,
in our own lives, we will never be what He means for us to be nor fulfill His plan and purpose for our lives. It's truly not
about us, it's all about HIM and what He pleases and desires to do in and through us, not just for our sake, but for the glory
of His Son, and His Holy Name, and for the sake of others who are still in darkness and on their way to an eternal hell and
need to see the Light that was and is the life of men (John 1:4). Some of the authors of the articles linked below include
T Austin Sparks, David Wilkerson, BH Clendennen, AW Tozer, to name a few.
"The cross must be central to everything. God is going to have a people of the altar. The altar speaks
of death to everything that is not Christ. Since Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, is the only thing that God says
that He is well pleased with, it is to this end the cross is working; to conform us to the image of that Son, reproducing
us in time, the moral character of Jesus Christ." BH Clendennen
Much of the church has never understood that God uses the Blood and the cross in a remedial way to bring us
into life. By the cross, He cuts us loose from our old natural resources that we might live by another. BH Clendennen
And when he had called the people
unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will
come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
