Sermon on Self-Denial

George Whitefield preaches on Luke 9:23, urging believers to embrace self-denial as the heart of true Christianity. He unfolds the duty of renouncing one's own understanding, will, and affections — including the love of riches, worldly relationships, and sensual pleasures — in pursuit of Christ. Through vivid scriptural illustrations and appeals to the examples of the apostles and martyrs, Whitefield demonstrates the universal obligation and reasonableness of the cross-bearing life, motivating hearers with both the terrors of judgment and the joys of heaven.