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Paul's Passing Thoughts 
Here is an excellent essay regarding this expression to “take up your cross”. In summary, it was a Hebrew idiom that Jesus used to illustrate a willingness to suffer martyrdom for being a disciple of Jesus, and does not necessarily have any reference to salvation whatsoever.
http://www.hebroots.org/hebrootsarchive/0001/000119_k.html
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Great link, Andy. I hope people read it.
There was a concentrated effort early on to erase Jesus’ Jewish roots and then to understand Him through a Greek filter.
I have learned so much over the past ten years of things we get wrong or don’t deeply understand the overarching meaning because we ignore how a first century Jew would have understood it.
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