{"id":3259,"date":"2015-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/if-anyone-desires-to-come-after-me-let-him-deny-himself-and-take-up-his-cross-daily-and-follow-me-luke-923-nkjv\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:00:00","slug":"if-anyone-desires-to-come-after-me-let-him-deny-himself-and-take-up-his-cross-daily-and-follow-me-luke-923-nkjv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/if-anyone-desires-to-come-after-me-let-him-deny-himself-and-take-up-his-cross-daily-and-follow-me-luke-923-nkjv","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me&#8221; (Luke 9:23 NKJV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the cost of discipleship?<br \/>\nAfter Jesus described how He would suffer, be killed, and rise on the third day, He explained the cost of being one of His disciples. His instruction?<br \/>\n1) Deny yourself &#8211; Surrender your will to Christ&#8217;s Lordship.\u20282) Take up your cross daily &#8211; Die daily to sin through Christ&#8217;s sacrifice.\u20283) Follow Me &#8211; Walk in the Spirit, filled with Christ&#8217;s resurrection power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the cost of discipleship?<br \/>\nAfter Jesus described how He would suffer, be killed, and rise on the third day, He explained the cost of being one of His disciples. His instruction?<br \/>\n1) Deny yourself &#8211; Surrender your will to Christ&#8217;s Lordship.\u20282) Take up your cross daily &#8211; Die daily to sin through Christ&#8217;s sacrifice.\u20283) Follow Me &#8211; Walk in the Spirit, filled with Christ&#8217;s resurrection power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1309],"scripture-chapter":[1342],"oyb_day":[1617],"location":[],"class_list":["post-3259","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-luke","scripture-chapter-1342","oyb_day-march-31"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}