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Please provide scripture that states that !
We must deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Jesus, he is the way and must follow him. He is the truth.
1 Peter 2
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps
1 Peter 4
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin
2 Timothy 2
It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us
Denial isn't only not believing, denial is when you know it's right to do and you do it not. It's the doers of the word that are justified, not the hearers only.
We must be put to death in the flesh and live by the spirit. We must die daily and live in God, of we die to the flesh then we live. And Jesus is the way.
Romans 6
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
We must decrease so Christ can increase, we must die so Christ can live in us.