Cgmi Common Impact Centre Sermons

Some Christians are so cross conscious that they believe they have to suffer in this life just as their saviour Jesus Christ suffered on the cross. They have been fed a lot of lies from the pulpit because of the ignorance of the clergy that should minister light to the people they lead.Such people regard it as a badge of honour to be acquainted with grief, sickness, pains, and sufferings just as Christ was on the cross. They often refer to the sufferings of sickness, disease, weakness, and poverty as carrying their cross in life. This is nothing but a terrible misunderstanding of what Jesus meant when He said in Matthew 16:23 that those who want to come after Him should take up their cross and follow Him. Generally speaking, the cross that the early disciples had to carry in following Christ was the persecution and harassments that they faced. It was never sickness, disease, poverty, want, failure, weakness or any such thing. · In fact, to live in sickness after Jesus bore your sicknesses on the cross is to r