The Way of Christ

Open your bible with me to Luke 9:51-62

This morning, we are going to wrap up a major section in the book of Luke. In reality. We really wrapped that section up last week. This section includes a significant pivot in the life and ministry of Jesus. Luke concludes Jesus’ Galilean ministry, and now, with unshaken resolve, Jesus sets His face toward Jerusalem.

Let me try to unpack and tie up some loose ends. The first is that both the beginning of Jesus’ Jerusalem Journey and the end of Jesus' ministry are characterized by what most would consider a failure. Here at the outset, he is rejected by a Samaratian Village. And then in Luke 19, as the Passion is moments away, you see Jesus weeping over Jerusalem for their unbelief as the reject Jesus as Messiah.

And really, much of Jesus’ ministry is categorized in that way. It wasn’t as spectacular as many would have wanted or even expected. Much of Jesus’ ministry would bear by most measure, little fruit. So on the one hand, while it displayed great power and might, and caused many to MARVEL. We’ve seen that countless times. What is most amazing is that many walk away from that power in disbelief. People walk away from him. They don’t follow him. They come only for what he can give them, NOT to find satisfaction in Him. And that Jesus comes to His people, and his own people reject him. This is the norm of Jesus’ ministry. His ministry is often marked by what we would consider failure, in the eyes of man.

And that will for the most part categorize the life and ministry of his disciples as well. They, too, will struggle, and they, too, will be rejected. Their ministry will NOT be met with much success, but instead hardship and adversity. And even the great wins they would endeavor would come with great toil, hardship, and persecution.

And so Luke has brought us to the top of the Mountain and shown us the glory of Christ, and, in doing so, he has shown us the weakness of Jesus’ disciples. And that’s why everything in this context has been pointing to their weakness. Their inability. They are hopeless apart from Jesus. Their frailty and failure.

You know, I think Luke is showing us something subtle and profound here.

Sermon Summary:  The way of the cross is to embrace the death of the flesh.

It is the slow but constant breaking down and tearing away of everything you see as important. The desire to justify and defend. The need to be right. The desire to vindicate. To self-preserve. Get all that you desire here on earth, because that’s what is owed to you. Beloved, what if you received and succeeded in all the wrong ways? What if you measured and counted your life as precious by the wrong standard? What if what you often saw as failure was actually a means of your growth in Christ? What if, in those things you thought were never noticed and never counted, never credited to you, they were carefully weighed and considered by the Lord? What if those things you count as loss were actually your means of gain in following Jesus?

Luke 9:51–62 ESV

51 When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. 52 And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make preparations for him. 53 But the people did not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem. 54 And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” 55 But he turned and rebuked them. 56 And they went on to another village. 57 As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” 58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” 59 To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 60 And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” 61 Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.” 62 Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

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I. Christ Model’s The Way of The Cross (v.51-56)

Just a note: this point will be slightly longer, and the remaining points will be shorter, as I see that Luke intends this section to set up what comes after.

Luke 9:51–56 ESV

51 When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. 52 And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make preparations for him. 53 But the people did not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem. 54 And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” 55 But he turned and rebuked them. 56 And they went on to another village.

If you feel a pivot of Luke’s writing, good. That’s intentional. The days are drawing near for Jesus to be taken up. You recall, Jesus warned his disciples twice in Luke 9. Of the passion. That the Son of Man will suffer and die. And that is to take place in Jerusalem. But Luke uses a word here - To be taken up. It means to ascend. It’s the noun form, and the only place it's used. But it’s akin to the verb for, to the ASCENSION! A word that is familiar to Luke. See, Luke isn’t just focus on the death of Christ, but what that death will accomplish! He will give His life, but He will also be raised. To follow Jesus is follow Him into death, but more than that to HIS RESSURECTION! The days are coming for Him to be taken up!

And so Jesus set His face to Jerusalem. This is resolve. This is determination without compromise. It means to set one’s heart with great desire towards something. Jesus now is SET to go to Jerusalem and endure all that awaits Him there. When He comes to the place of the SKULL, and He is crucified! (Luke 23:33), And the disciples are to recall back on that moment, the words that Jesus told them in Galilee, that He will suffer and be crucified, but on the third day, he will be raised. (Luke 24:6). Jesus know what await him, and in great determination and zeal. Set His face to go to the cross and fulfilled all that was prepared for Him to accomplish, He has set his face like Flint, and He will NOT be put to shame (Isaiah 50:7).

And He sent messengers, who we don’t know much about. But it’s clear that Jesus has more around him than just the 12. We met a man in Luke 9:50 last week who is working alongside Jesus’ mission. And He sent out messengers, and will again in Luke 10, these messengers go ahead of him, and make preparation for him at – A VILLAGE of the Samaritans!

Now—this whole Samaritan thing matters. There’s a long and messy history there. Jews and Samaritans didn’t just “NOT get along”—there was deep, multifaceted hostility. Ethnic, religious, political. Samaritans claimed they were the true descendants of Israel, the faithful keepers of the Torah, and that Mount Gerizim— NOT Jerusalem—was the right place to worship. Jews saw Samaritans as compromised, as half-breeds going all the way back to the Assyrian conquest and the intermarriages you see in 2 Kings 17.

And when the Jews came back from exile and rebuilt the Temple in Ezra? They refused Samaritan help. That only poured gasoline on the fire. So you ended up with two rival worship centers—Jerusalem for the Jews, Gerizim for the Samaritans—and a whole lot of resentment. That’s the same controversyJesus steps right into with the Samaritan woman in John 4.

So yes, Jews avoided Samaria. They walked around the region on their way to Jerusalem every single year. This was NOT friendly territory.

And that’s why their rejection of Jesus here isn’t surprising—but Luke tells you the real reason: “because His face was set toward Jerusalem.”

It’s NOT just ethnic tension. It’s theological. It’s about Jesus’ identity and mission. They want nothing to do with someone heading to the city they refuse to acknowledge as the true place of worship, much less someone claiming to be the Messiah who will fulfill everything Jerusalem represents.

Well, the disciples are ready to take up arms. Specifically, James and John– the Sons of Thunder. This strange statement about calling down fire to consume them. It is often dismissed as comical. It’s often seen as the disciples are out of their minds. And while it is worth asking if they have this authority. They are ready to fight!! This statement they make is an allusion back to Elijah in 2 Kings 1:1-17, when Elijah called down fire on God’s enemies and destroyed them! They toowere wanting Jesus to respond with HIS WINNOWING FORK AND BRING JUDGEMENT!!

And Jesus turned and rebuked them. Strong word – Jesus had already told them in Luke 9:5 When you come into a town, and you are rejected. Leave and shake the dust from your feet as testimony against them!! And so Jesus says, now’s NOT the time. You don’t have to fight back. You DON’T HAVE TO WIN right now. Judgement is coming, but it’s NOT here. NOT today! Let’s keep moving to another village.

Jesus is saying, I’m NOT bringing judgment now. There will be a time when God’s enemies are judged, but now is NOT that time.  And He instead appeals to mercy! I think he’s also challenging the disciple's ability. Which, I do NOT believe they have.

But most importantly. He’s making it clear. I’m NOT Elijah!.... Men, I’m NOT merely one of God’s prophets! I’m NOT sending down God’s judgment on His enemies. Instead, I’m going to Jerusalem. My NOT is set toward Jerusalem, and I’m goingto LAY MY LIFE DOWN FOR SINNERS, and for those who are enemies of God. And there, God’s judgment against His enemies. It will come down and fall on me!   And there I will take the punishment and wrath of God that sin deserves. See, Jesus isn’t destroyingHis enemies, like Elijah….He dies for them! And says, I’m going to give my life ransom for sinners!! I’m going to be the substitute for sin and for sinners!! , that they might be saved, NOT be condemned!!

John 3:16–18 ESV

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Oh man. Jesus is modelling what the way of the cross looks like. When everything within us is preserve, keep, defend! Jesus says, I’m resolved to go to the cross! And lay my life, my own life down in death! So that they might be saved. This is the way of the cross. It is the end of your keeping and preserving your way of living, and embracing the way of CHRIST and suffering!! And Jesus doesn’t just say – yeah, boys you need to deny self, take your cross, and follow me, as a clique or trite turn of phrase. He lived IT!!HE MODELED IT! He showed us what it looks like with unwavering resolve, to say the way of death and end of earthly comfort is THAT WAY, and that’s the directionI’m heading. NOT because it’s easy, but because that’s the way that MY FATHER IS GLORIFIED!! 

And Jesus looks at his disciples, who are still locked and loaded. Ready to go to FIGHT!!! Defend, FIGHT BACK! SHOW EM! Exercise MIGHT and AUTHORITY!!  I’ll teach you to mess with me!! To bring wrath and vengeance. And Jesus says, there is another way. It’s called the way of the cross! It’s a call to the death of your own flesh!

I don’t know if this is hitting you the way it's hitting me…But, we fight this!! We fight this every day. You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, You gotta be wiser, you gotta be hard, You gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger….That’s a Des’ree lyric by the way! …..And Jesus has been showing us, contextually, every week. You are none of these things. And NONE of those things are the things that matter, in this life, really!! Instead, YOU’RE WEAK!! YOU’RE NEEDY You are dependent!

And if you think victory in the GOSPEL looks like success and triumphing over enemies or anyone who stands in your way by your power and strength and might….because you’ll show them!! You’ve missed the point!! Instead, the way of the cross is to embrace the death of our own flesh!! And it is to followJesus, who modeled and lived this way! And SET HIS FACE to GO TO JERUSALEM!!

And the invitation of Jesus isn’t to follow Jesus to earthly success or riches. It’s to follow Him to His death on a cross, and Jesus giving his own life, for his enemies!! Man, that’s tough!!

It’s tough when you’ve been wronged! Been hurt, and want to get right and get even!!....and I’d submit to you, it’s even harder when you are fighting with an enemy of your own heart. That elevates self, puffs up, and wants to say I’m strong enough, I’m good enough. I’m NOT like that… when what is needed most, is another way; The way of the cross. The death of self and foolish pride!! The way of living for the glory of God, instead of the glory of self!

You are weakChristian! And if you feel this text, leaning into last week, good!! I sense that Luke means it that way! We are weakChristian. And we will never find strength or success or satisfaction aspiring towards GREATNESS in the FLESH!! You only find that in the way of Christ! the way of the cross…..The way that looks like failure. As Jesus is strung up on the cross to suffer, die, and give His life as a sacrifice for his enemies!! And Jesus says – YEAH, that’s the way!! That’s the way of true life!! That’s the way of true victory!! That’s the way of true freedom! That’s the way of true peace and hope….That’s the way of TRUE GLORY!! We follow Him in his death….but because of His ascension. We also follow Him in His resurrection!!

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II. Dying To Self Comfort (v.57-58)

These last points will move quickly. It’s NOT because they are unimportant. So don’t think that. They will move quickly because they move quickly in the text. So, I’m leaning into that as I preach.

Luke 9:57–58 ESV

57 As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” 58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

Luke doesn’t tell us who this person is. It’s Matthew, in his gospel, who tells us that it is surprisingly a scribe who says these words. It’s a promise. One of great zeal and passion! I will follow you! Wherever you go!

Perhaps he had witnessed Jesus perform signs and wonders. He saw the majesty of Jesus and was amazed, and in great willingness and eagerness, commits to the long haul. I, too, will follow you!!

Jesus shatters his ambition with the reality of loss. Following me doesn’t come with luxury or comfort. Following me is difficult. It will come at the great misfortune of your comfort and ease in this life. Foxes have holes, birds of the air have nests….but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head. Jesus is NOT saying homelessness is a requirement; He is saying following Him puts you on a path where comfort can no longer be your master.

Following Jesus comes with a cost. And that cost is that this world is NOT your home. And there may be many who, in great zeal, desire to follow Jesus, and the invitation is open, but we must count the cost. And here is a man, like the soil of the rocky ground, who springs up quickly but who had no root, and it withered and died.

We must be careful and expect hardship in following Jesus. Jesus never promised the Christian life would be easy. He has NOT called us to take up a pillow and follow Him. Nor has he said, "Take up a mirror and follow me." He had bid us to come, TAKE UP a cross, deny self, and follow him. That we be willing to set aside comforts and luxuries, for the sake of following Christ!!

Those things, in the flesh, we think, well, that’d be nice to have! It would be better or easier with this or that. With a home, or a place to lay my head. Jesus said, I don’t have that luxury! It’s to embrace rejection. To embrace hardship and difficulty in following Jesus.  Or man, it would be nice to knowI have provision for tomorrow. I can store up and be prepared for what is coming. And the Lord says, I am to be your provision. You can’t hold onto that stuff. You must instead follow me!

Where does comfort compete with obedience for us?

What comforts would we rather keep than risk losing for Christ?

And so here is Jesus, setting His face towardsJerusalem, saying this is what following me looks like. Forsaking comfort! And living in obedience and for a greater glory!!  That is the death of self and the death of comfort- being like, and having the praise of man!

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III. Dying to Self-Priority (v.59-60)

Luke 9:59–60 ESV

59 To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 60 And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

Another unnamed candidate comes, and Jesus invites him now to follow Him. And in so doing, Jesus exposes his heart. You may think, well, this guy has a valid reason. He has a legitimate excuse, right? Well, an excuse it is. And that’s what this really is, and I’ll highlight again in a moment. But surely, Jesus is sympathetic here. I mean, the guy’s father is dying. What about Honoring Father and Mother? Is Jesus suggesting that this man disobey the 5th commandment?

Yet, what is behind this is a shift of true priority, and Jesus exposes that here. Saying that, let me go and burymy father, is a real open-ended commitment. Because see, if this person's father were dead, he would be at the funeral and be in the process of mourning. Except He’s NOT. If the man’s father were already dead, he wouldn’t be here—he’d be in a week-long burial process. See, His father is NOT dead. The request means: ‘Let me wait until my father dies someday, then I’ll follow You.’ It’s an indefinite postponement.  His dad isn’t dead; he was most likely getting older and reaching the age of death. And beyond that, there might have even been an inheritance after his father passed. So Jesus, if I leave now, then I might miss out. And to be honest, Jesus, I don’t know that I can follow you right now. My Father may die soon, or in a few years, but after he passes, then I will follow you.

And that’s why Jesus responds the way that he does. “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” Man, if you don’t have spiritual eyes to see, the kingdom is now! There is no time to wait. Very well, then….let the spiritual dead wait around and bury the physically dead then. BUT now is the time to proclaim the KINGDOM of GOD! It’s NOT waiting around for a better time. A more convenient time. But instead, calls you place the highest priority in following Jesus now!!  Jesus is drawing a sharp line: those who are spiritually dead can handle ordinary affairs, but those who are spiritually alive must give themselves to the mission of life—the proclamation of the kingdom.

And if we aren’t careful, other things can begin to take priority over Jesus and cross-bearing!! And the sneaky ones are NOT the bad things we must forsake, but sometimes even the good things, that Jesus says, those things must NOT take priority over following me, either!!  Things like our jobs, or our self-image, or even our own family. Things that we think are urgent needs become ultimate needs. Well, Jesus, I’ve got to tend to this first!! Jesus corrects us, that we see that He is what matters most, always!! “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

This man is like the soil that grew up among the thorns. That even as it springs up, it is choked out by other cares and concerns. Beloved, Jesus means that He is preeminent in all things. That He takes first place in our life. That we be willing to forsake everything, and leave it behind for the sake of following Jesus!

What things do we tell Jesus must come first? What are our true priorities? Christ, or lesser things?

What good things slowly become ultimate things?

What delays have we dressed up as responsibilities?

And so here is Jesus, setting His face towardsJerusalem, saying this is what following me looks like. And it’s a singular focus and glory of the way of the CROSS….that is the death of self!

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IV. Dying to Self-Attachment  (v.61-62)

Luke 9:61–62 ESV

61 Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.” 62 Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

And finally, here is a third would-be disciple. He begins with the same promise and zeal as the first. I will follow you. But at least he is open enough to attempt a condition with his promise. Unlike the second, he is willing to forgo any family inheritance. He has just one simple request. Let me go and say farewell to my loved ones. But in those words, there is a divided loyalty. It’s a misplacement of priority. And really, what he’s attempting is his divided allegiance and his reluctance to leave behind what he’s known and what is familiar and familial to him.

So again, Jesus isn’t against family. But he is exposing divided allegiance! And calling for solidarity in  following Christ above all things. This is what is behind the Statement coming later in Luke 14:26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. It’s NOT that Jesus is saying make enemies within your family or create hostility there, but He is saying, you must love Christ above all else!!

Luke 14:26 ESV

26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

And that’s why Jesus gives this statement of divided ambition.  Luke 9:61-62 62 Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.” In short, you can’t put your hand to the plow of the kingdom and then keep straight when looking back at what you are leaving behind. When you look back, you’ll get off course. You won’t plow the straight and narrow!

Luke 9:61–62 ESV

61 Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.” 62 Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Jesus is also leaning into the allusion that there in the statement – let me go first, say farewell to those at my home. That’s an illusion to 1 Kings 19. When Elisa was called to follow Elijah. In which, Elisha was, by no strange coincidence, out plowing a field when Elijah came to him and asked him to follow him. And Elisha requested to return home and say farewell to His family first, and then come and follow Elijah. And what Jesus is showing is a contrast in Elisha disposition and the disposition here. See, Elisha was returning home to say, guys, I’m done here, I’ve been called to a greater purpose to serve in the kingdom with Elijah. There was no looking back for Elisha from here….Further, Elisha was a literal picture of leaving the field of his home to plow in the field of the kingdom with Elijah. And yet, Jesus says, here….No, the moment you say, "I’m following Jesus…," you can’t look back and say, "Let me go back to what I’m leaving!" You must be unwavering in your commitment to the kingdom of God!!  

Further, the quick reference to looking back is often always in reference to God’s coming judgment. Looking back in Scripture is rarely innocent—it’s a gesture of mistrust, nostalgia for the world, or subtle rebellion. And in looking back in disobedience, God’s judgment ensues. Such as when Lot’s wife looks back when Sodom is being destroyed. Or when Israel looks back to their days in Egypt, longing to be there instead. And Jesus is warning against the kind of divided loyalty, saying, "You can’t look back; the kingdom is here… and so if Elisha could abandon everything to follow a prophet, how much more should we abandon everything to follow the Son of God?" And If looking back meant judgment in the Old Testament, how much more serious is looking back now that the Kingdom has arrived?

Beloved, what “but first” is competing with Jesus in your life right now? Where are you hesitant to obey because it costs you something? Where is your loyalty divided—where you want Christ, but also want your old life?

And so here is Jesus, setting His face towards Jerusalem, saying this is what following me looks like. Saying, this is my course and your lot to follow me!.....that is the death of self and a divided heart!

CONCLUSION

You know, here we have this quick series of those called to be discipled. But in each case, excuses are given. And this story is contextually sitting against the backdrop of Jesus’s resolve to SET HIS FACE toward Jerusalem. And Jesus saying, This is the way of Following Christ! This is the way of the cross!! It doesn’t look like fame or fortune or success according to the way of the world. In many ways, it’s going to look like failure! You’re going to look like a fool. You are going to be hated, mocked, maligned, persecuted…You are going to be subject to the same path and treatment of the Savior who walked this very road before you! And HAS called unto you…..FOLLOW ME!!

Will you follow me in hardship? Will you follow me, above success, and riches? Above family and what is most precious to you? Will you too follow me unto death? The death of success, of fame, of your own will and flesh….Will you follow me!! As my face is set to Jerusalem!

You know, there is an old hymn that sometimes is criticized as being “man-centered” or “me-focused” because the lyrics highlight personal pronouns, I, me, my….you know what I mean…But many don’t know the origin of this hymn.

It began as the dying words of a man who had just given everything for Christ.

In the mid-1800s, in northeasternIndia—what is today Assam—the gospel began to spread among tribal groups that had never heard the name of Jesus. Missionaries from Wales brought Scripture, preached the gospel, and small pockets of believers began to arise. Among them was one family from what was known as the Garo tribe: a man, his wife, and their two male children.

And in coming to Christ, it enraged the village; their own kin and people. Because they were willing to publicly renounce the tribal gods and follow Jesus. And it was considered betrayal, and deserving of death…And so the chief gave them an ultimatum-  the family could deny Christ or face execution. And so as they stood at the gallows  of archer ready to strike them at the command of the chief…..Will you renounce Christ as Lord, and return to our tribal gods?

The man’s response became the first line of the hymn:

“I have decided to follow Jesus.”

The archers pulled back their bows, striking and killing his two sons.

Will you renounce Christ and return to our tribal god? He replied,

“Though none go with me, still I will follow.”

His wife was then taken from him.

A final time, the chief commanded him to deny Christ.

The man answered with the words that would become the hymn’s final verse:

“The world behind me, the cross before me.” He was executed moments later.

What happened next is what makes the story so powerful.

The chief, deeply shaken by the man’s unwavering faith, later declared:

“I too belong to Jesus Christ.”

And many in the village followed.

And that’s the story behind the hymn – I have decided to follow Jesus… and I share that because it captures the same heart here… of the resolve and commitment of the cross.  When the world taunts and says, "Come this way." Be successful! Live in luxury. Live in comfort! …To look in the other direction to the way of Christ!! Whose face is set toward Jerusalem! And he teaches his disciples to deny their flesh and desire for vengeance and instead embrace mercy. As Jesus models the way of the cross for us! And teaches what it looks like to die to self--comfort, and to die self priority, to die to and self-attachment. And the result of this threefold call is ultimately unknown. We are NOT given the results of any of these scenarios. We can speculate, but we ultimately don’t know….And it’s as though Luke has shown us the way of Christ – The way of death and the death of the flesh. Shown us the way of the Cross as Jesus says – now, will you follow me?…..and the appeal is left open-ended to us now. As to ask the question? Will you now follow Jesus? When it means the loss of your own comfort, your own future, and desire….when it means looking like a failure in the eyes of the world?  When it means your own death?

Sermon Summary:  The way of the cross is to embrace the death of the flesh.

That you would know the way of Christ is the way of death, and say still…..

I have decided to follow Jesus;

I have decided to follow Jesus;

I have decided to follow Jesus;

No turning back; no turning back.

Though none go with me, I still will follow;

Though none go with me, I still will follow;

Though none go with me, I still will follow;

No turning back; no turning back.

The cross before me, the world behind me;

The cross before me, the world behind me;

The cross before me, the world behind me;

No turning back; no turning back.

My Cross I’ll carry til I see Jesus

My Cross I’ll carry til I see Jesus

My Cross I’ll carry til I see Jesus

No turning back; no turning back.