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Walking It Out
Crucified PathWalking It OutColossians 3:1–3 — “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”We end where…
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The Joy Set Before Him
Crucified PathThe Joy Set Before HimHebrews 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.”We return, in this final stretch of the series, to…
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Already on the Far Side
Crucified PathAlready on the Far SideGalatians 2:20 — “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”This verse is written…
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The Fellowship of His Sufferings
Crucified PathThe Fellowship of His SufferingsPhilippians 3:10 — “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.”Paul wrote this from a place of remarkable clarity, having already lost everything the world once told him mattered — status, reputation, religious credentials —…
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Called to Suffer
Crucified PathNot My Will, But ThineLuke 22:42 — “Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.”Before there was a cross to carry, there was a garden to kneel in. Gethsemane is where Jesus modeled the crucified path before he ever walked it in public…
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Not My Will, But Thine
Crucified PathNot My Will, But ThineLuke 22:42 — “Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.”Before there was a cross to carry, there was a garden to kneel in. Gethsemane is where Jesus modeled the crucified path before he ever walked it in public…
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Looking Unto Jesus
Crucified PathLooking Unto JesusHebrews 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.”There is a path every follower of Jesus is eventually asked to…
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Living on the Crucifixion Side of the Cross
Crucified PathLiving on the Crucifixion Side of the CrossJohn 12:24 — “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”There are two ways to stand before the cross of Jesus. One is to admire it…
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Downward Mobility
Crucified PathDownward MobilityPhilippians 2:6–8 — “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself,…
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Series Outline
Crucified Path — Series OutlineSeries description: A devotional series tracing the call of Jesus in the Gospels and the echoing call of the apostles in the Epistles to walk the crucified path — the way of the cross that leads, always, to resurrection. The series opens with the shape of that path itself — a…