# The Cross That Wounds You | Matthew 16:24-28

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Podcast: [MARANATHA CHURCH](https://stenobird.com/podcast/maranatha-church-7086561)
Published: 2026-06-22T19:19:04+00:00
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Most of us have softened the call of Jesus until it fits inside the life we had already designed. Most of us have softened the call of Jesus until it fits inside the life we had already designed. We reference the cross, we sing about it, we wear it, but we have not actually taken it up. Matthew 16:24-28 confronts the comfortable middle ground and asks what we are really telling Jesus about His worth when we refuse to carry what He has asked us to. The cross you carry should wound you, and the One who carried His first is worth everything it costs.

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