We always carry the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 2 Corinthians 4:10 HCSB

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There is a difference between carrying the death of Jesus in our body and carrying it on our body. Just because we carry a cross on our neck does not make us a Christian. But when we carry a cross in our heart, soul, mind, and strength this is what makes us a Christian. The death of Jesus is the example of the life we are to live for God. Jesus did not get on the cross because Pilot, the guards, or the Jewish leaders put Him three. Jesus got on the cross because God put Him there to be the once for all sacrificial offering for all the sins of humanity. 

We need to be dying daily to the will of God and putting to death the desires of the sinful flesh which wars against the desires God has for us. No one is exempt from this. Peter, James, John, Paul. Martin Luther, Billy Graham, our pastors, and we all had to or still need to die to sinful desires to live for Jesus. Are we sold out for Jesus as these men of old were? Or have we sold out for the world and let them decide how we should love Jesus? We are to be sold out for Jesus and He will tell us how to love the world.

Why does the extraordinary power of God not live in us? Why do people say that the miracles were for the apostles only? Because we have not completely died to self to let the same Holy Spirit dwell in us as He dwelled in the 12 Apostles, Paul, and the early Church. 

Why did Paul carry the death of Jesus in his body? To allow anything else to live in him was sin. He only boasted in his weakness so that the death of Jesus may be revealed out of Him. He was a light to the gentiles to give them the new life promised in Jesus.

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all,  the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring you to God, after being put to death in the fleshly realm but made alive in the spiritual realm.
1 Peter 3:18 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/1pe.3.18.HCSB

Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship.  Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:1‭-‬2 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/rom.12.1-2.HCSB

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.
1 Peter 2:11 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/1pe.2.11.HCSB

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power    is perfected in weakness.”  Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me. So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, catastrophes, persecutions, and in pressures, because of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:9‭-‬10 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/2co.12.9-10.HCSB

Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as something done for the Lord and not for men,  knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ.
Colossians 3:23‭-‬24 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/col.3.23-24.HCSB

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