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Knowing your purpose gives direction in life.
We believe that our purpose is to Give God Glory and Enjoy Him forever.
We believe that this is more important than everything else.
How will that purpose translate into our life this week.
How does it look to Give God Glory and Enjoy him forever?
At our church, we use the following phrase as a guide for everything else we do.
Introduce People to Jesus and Together Become Fully Devoted Followers
Let me connect the dots.
If our chief goal is to give God glory we need a way to do that.
We can’t give glory on our own strength, we’ll never have this enjoyment left to our own resources.
The problem is sin.
Sin has absolutley and terribly seperated people from God.
We cannot do what is most important because of sin.
God loves us.
He hates what sin does to us.
And he wants for people to have abundant eternal life.
And so Jesus has come to make that possible.
He dealt with sin once for all time on the cross.
Because of Jesus sacrifice, his life in place of ours, we can come to him and be forgiven of sin.
Because of Jesus we can live lives that Glorify God and Enjoy him forever.
And so, that it is why it is so important to our church that we Introduce people to Jesus and Together become fully devoted followers.
Jesus is the only way to God.
There is no other name by which we can be saved.
God help us to introduce people to Jesus and his saving power.
We can use the phrases “Fully Devoted Followers” and “Disciples” interchangeably.
Although they both give us differnt angles on what it means to be a Christian.
A Disciple follows their teacher in order to learn.
ex: People who are training to become doctors are admitted into a residency program.
They go to the hospital, to be with doctors, that they will learn from.
They observe, they ask questions, and they are given many oppertunities to put into practice what they have been taught.
ex: People who are training to become electricians are called apprentices.
They work with a Master Electrician, and each year that they are with him they aquire more skill, until one day they are the master electrician.
When we think about being a disciple of Jesus, we are talking about learning what Jesus taught so that we can live what Jesus taught.
It is a process that invlolves growing in different skills, growing in knowledge, and growing in our heart attitudes and perspectives.
While none of us would ever say that we have fully arrived, and are “Master Christians”, we can all aim to become mature disciples.
We recognize that being a disciple of Jesus takes encourament and help form others.
And so we encourage everyone to be a part of a small group of people who will provide this encouragment to you.
Who will challenge you and who will help you to learn and live out the life of Christian.
The phrase that we are focussing on today is “Fully Devoted Followers”.
Jesus made it clear, that following him was exclusively for those who would be fully devoted followers.
Luke 9 Context
There is a lot of ground that happens in Luke 9. We are studying verses 57-62.
What happens in the first portion?
Power and Authority are given from Jesus to his 12 apostles.
They go from town to town proclaiming the good news and healing everyone.
Luke 9:1-2
King Herod becomes very interested in who Jesus is, he want’s to meet Jesus.
Luke 9:7-9
The apostles return from their trip with reports of God’s work.
Luke 9:10
A crowd of 5000 people are fed miraculously by Jesus.
Luke 9:12-17
Peter has a revelation from God, answering that Jesus is “God’s Messiah”.
Luke 9:20
Jesus explains that he must suffer many things, by rejected by Jewish authorietes, be killed and raised the third day.
Luke 9:21-23
Peter, James & John accompany Jesus up a mountain, where he is transfigured before their eyes.
The glory of God shines all around Jesus and Moses and Elijah appear with him, speaking of his death.
Luke 9:28-36
On their return there is a boy who is having violent seizures, the disciples who are there are unable to heal him.
But Jesus heals the boy.
Everyone is astonished at the greatness of God.
Luke 9:37-45
Jesus tells them again that he is going to be betrayed, but the disciples don’t understand and are too afraid to ask what is going on.
Luke 9:43-45
An argument breaks out about which one of the disciples is the greatest.
Jesus teaches that whoever is least amoung you — this one is great Luke 9:46-48
Jesus, who is very much aware of the time and the season, knows that it is time to make his last trip to Jerusalem.
The trip where he will utlimatly be killed, and raised back to life.
Luke 9:51-56
And that brings us to our passage for today.
In this passage we are going to learn what it means to be a “fully devoted follower” of Jesus.
Look at that sentance.
It starts off with,
As they were traveling on the road...
This is the road to Jerusalem and this is the last time Jesus travels it on the way to his death.
Time is important in this passage.
They are headed their for a reason.
God’s eternal timeline is in play.
Who is the “they” that is mentioned.
It is a group of disciples travelling with Jesus.
This group is much larger than the 12 disciples that we know by name.
There are also many who are disciples in the sense that they want to learn from Jesus and they are willing to travel with Jesus in order to do that.
These have left their homes, they are on the road.
The three people that Jesus is about to have conversations with, are people who are already travelling with him on the road.
Somone, we don’t know his name, says, “I will follow you wherever you go.”
What a great sentiment.
Many of us have that same desire.
We say to Jesus,
Where You go, I'll go
Where You stay, I'll stay
When You move, I'll move
I will follow You
- Chris Tomlin / Jason Ingram / Ruben Morgan “I Will Follow”
But what does Jesus say to that beautiful statement?
What does it mean that Jesus is God’s Messiah?
Does it mean that his followers gain security.
Does following Jesus mean that now you’ve got it made?
By saying, “I will follow You”, are your problems over.
ALthough that sounds nice, its not what’s best for us.
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