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Jesus Calling
This is our second week in the Life Of Jesus series where we are looking at Jesus’ time here on earth, the ministry that he started and wanted to grow.
Last week we talked about Jesus’ preparation for this ministry as he went out into the desert and fasted for 40 days and faced the temptations from the devil.
If you missed that sermon you can hear it online or on the app this week.
This week we will be talking about the next step in Jesus’ ministry.
The first week Jesus’ focus was on himself.
He was preparing himself through the time spent alone with his Father and how personally he had to face those temptations.
After Jesus has victory personally, he begins the next phase of his ministry where he will be duplicating himself.
And he does that by pouring his life into others.
We will be talking about how Jesus calls his disciples.
This was probably one of the biggest parts of his ministry.
Because Jesus was using people, using people to entrust his message to the world.
Think about that for just a second.
Think about the privilege and the enormous responsibility it is to be entrusted with the truth.
And the people who he brought along were disciples.
Now remember what a disciple is?
The disciple is a learner.
It’s that simple.
It’s not some kind of doctorate program; it is simply one person spending time with and learning from another.
I hope that makes it a little less intimidating for you.
Being a disciple is being a learner and making a disciple means—not that you know everything, not that you are completely qualified—it simply means that you share your experiences, you share the truths that you have learned over the years to someone who maybe hasn’t heard those truths yet.
And the truths you learn can help you as you share them with someone else down the road.
Truths that will help someone, truths that protect someone.
Years ago I had the opportunity to invest in a small pharmaceutical company that was going to cure aids.
From what I heard it was a slam dunk!
I went to talk to my grandmother about it.
I knew that she was pretty savvy in the stock market stuff.
She said, “Mark, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.”
But I was going to show her and the world that I knew what I was doing.
I was going to trust the guy that I barely knew and I was going to get into this stock.
Fast forward 3 years and that company stock fell to 0. That’s right, a big goose egg.
My grandmother was discipling me in the area of investing.
She had been there.
I hadn’t.
I should have listened to her.
I didn’t.
Being one who disciples, or even being one who is being discipled doesn’t have to sound so scary.
Let’s talk a little bit about how Jesus got His disciples.
He called them.
We are going to talk about that.
Because
Normally a student is the one who chooses his teacher.
He can come and ask for a place in a school or he can go to another.
This was not the way of Jesus.
He called his disciples to follow him.
The stories of Jesus calling his disciples are well known.
The disciples could only give an answer to his initiative.
They left everything behind and followed him.
John 15:
And it is great.
When you read these stories about Jesus calling his followers you will notice early on that they were not chosen because of abilities.
They were uneducated.
They weren’t qualified.
Most of them were working men.
Fishermen.
But they weren’t chosen because of their abilities but by grace alone.
They weren’t chosen because of their talents.
They were chosen by Christ, so that He could do an amazing work in them.
To make them new creations for His purpose.
So church in the first century church looked much differently that the church looks now.
The New Testament Church was discipleship based.
In the New Testament church they looked at themselves not as supporters of the church, but as disciples of Jesus.
They didn’t go to the service and say, I didn’t like that song, or they didn’t say, I wish that we had a killer youth ministry.
Those are great things but they went to meet with other Christians in order to be better disciples for Christ.
And this is supposed to be true of us today.
All believers (those who have surrendered their lives to Jesus) today are disciples of Christ.
Not just supporters of a church.
So what does THAT mean?
What is the cost of discipleship?
The call to discipleship in Jesus day meant to leave family, profession and property.
Levi left his tax table.
Remember that?
He was a tax collector and Jesus came to him and he got up from his business.
The call to discipleship in Jesus day meant to leave family, profession and property.
Levi left his tax table
Jesus even said something about this in how he described the Qualifications for Disciples in
Understand that we aren’t supposed to hate our moms and dads.
But what Jesus is saying is that when we are disciples for Him, we honor Him first.
He comes first in every area of our lives.
Even when it comes to our own well being.
Let’s look at how Jesus called his disciples.
We have a record of how he got his disciples to follow Him.
Because you need to understand that.
Jesus calls us.
He does the calling.
Jesus calls his disciples to follow Him.
We don’t surprise Him, we don’t sneak up on Him.
He calls us.
He calls us to follow him
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Jesus does the calling
Jesus is the one who does the calling.
He seeks out those who are his.
That is what He does.
He seeks and he saves.
And he knows who he is looking for.
It is amazing how personal this is.
Remember that.
Your relationship with Jesus is personal.
He calls you into a personal relationship with Him.
Which means that He Calls You By Name (that means that he knows you) He knows You.
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