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Prayer
So it’s here…We come today to the final sermon in this 30 week series called Believe.
As you know, we’ve walked through 3 main questions throughout this time...
What Do I Believe?
What Do I Do?
Who Am I Becoming?
The questions are important ones because the answers place us on a path...
A path that either leads to destruction...
…or a path that leads to life
And so we’ve walk thru many chapters...
We’ve talked about things like:
THINK:
Chapter 1. God Chapter 2. Personal God Chapter 3. Salvation Chapter 4. The Bible Chapter 5. Identity in Christ Chapter 6. Church Chapter 7. Humanity Chapter 8. Compassion Chapter 9. Stewardship Chapter 10.
Eternity
ACT:
Chapter 11.
Worship Chapter 12. Prayer Chapter 13.
Bible Study Chapter 14. Single-Mindedness Chapter 15.
Total Surrender Chapter 16.
Biblical Community Chapter 17. Spiritual Gifts Chapter 18. Offering My Time Chapter 19.
Giving My Resources Chapter 20.
Sharing My Faith
BECOME:
Chapter 21.
Love Chapter 22. Joy Chapter 23.
Peace Chapter 24.
Self-Control Chapter 25.
Hope Chapter 26.
Patience Chapter 27.
Kindness/ Goodness Chapter 28.
Faithfulness Chapter 29.
Gentleness Chapter 30.
Humility
And i KNOW that looking back at all of this TRUTH that we’ve just walked through...
that it will take absolute HUMILITY to now take hold of these truths...
....and move forward…embracing them in our lives.
And i think it STARTS by KNOWING what’s at stake!! What the point is!
God WANTS —> THEIR WORSHIP!
Soo....
How are they going to come to KNOW God...
How are they going to come to know that He’s a PERSONAL GOD?
How are they going to find out about SALVATION?
That they can trust the BIBLE?
To really understand what the CHURCH is?
To know the plight of mankind before God?
To know that they have a WORSHIP problem?
That IN Christ they can HAVE GOD’s EAR in prayer?
That studying the Bible isn’t just for academics?
That their time ISN’T REALLY their time?
That their money ISN’T REALLY their money?
That their air they breathe is a GIFT?
HOW WILL THEY COME TO KNOW?
You
And it will TAKE YOU - humbling yourself...
And part of that humbling comes when you COUNT THE COST of the task at hand....
People would always come to Jesus - and He would respond by saying - ARE YOU SURE YOU WANNA FOLLOW ME?
It’s like He was always trying to convince people NOT to follow Him.
But what He was doing was DEFINING for people what FOLLOWING Him really meant...
What did it say back in verse 25?
Now, why were there great crowds?
Why were they following Him...
For a variety of reasons.
No doubt they had heard of His miracles.
They wanted to catch a glimpse of this guy who was very interesting to say the least.
Here's a guy who was feeding the hungry
... performing crazy miracles...
...could possibly overthrow Rome
...
He was worth seeing...
BUT, instead of Jesus getting excited about this big crowd, what does He do?
He gets skeptical...
Is this anyway to treat people who are pursuing You Jesus?
Absolutely! Why?
Because as we talked about last week....our motives matter.
These people were not seeking Jesus in order to surrender to His will...
Rather...
they were seeking Jesus in order to impose on Him, their will.
And so Jesus is saying...unless your love for your father, your mother, your wife, your children, your brothers, and sisters, looks like hate when compared to your love for ME, then you CANNOT be my disciple...
See if Jesus were here, He would walk out these doors, and He'd say - Ok, if you want to follow Me, if you want to come after Me, it could be that you never see your family again....still wanna come?
Have you counted this cost?
Pretty harsh words from Jesus, but He doesn't back off at this point...
He actually punches the gas even harder...
And says...
Ok, if you want to follow Me, if you want to come after Me, it could be that if you come after me, you may lose your own life....still wanna come?
Verse 27
He's saying: We're going to go out into this world,
and there's going to be some crosses out there for us,
and we're going to carry these crosses, and we're gonna get tortured together
...you still in?
He says - Because unless you're willing to [go the whole way], you cannot be my disciple.
Now, we know that Salvation is a free gift from God.
Why do we know that?
Because the Bible says so:
So yes, Salvation is free.
We are justified freely by God's grace, thru the redemption found in Christ...
But if a man is to be a Christian...it will cost him something!
Spurgeon Quote:
“Consider a moment; here is a blind man sitting by the wayside begging; he asks to have his eyes opened.
Will it cost him anything?
No, the Savior would not accept all the gold in the world for the cure!
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