This month, we have considered:

• Who are we? Why do we exist?
• How do we

the word “church”?
• Are we a social

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or are we doing what Jesus told us to do?
• In the course of this month we have let Scripture define these things for us as a church family. Once again, it comes down to an issue of identity, but this part of your identity will result in specific actions, habits, and a lifestyle.
• The question for today is: Are you a

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?

Sound Like a Disciple?

• I was having a conversation the other night and asking some questions trying to determine if who I was talking to understood the Gospel. I want you to read their responses and let me know if you think they are a disciple?
• So often, we fall prey to deceptive thinking, like:

// Being a disciple is about having enough

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to be able to answer any question.
// Being a disciple is not primarily about abiding by a list of

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or trying to do religious activities like going to church, giving to the church, being baptized.
// Being a disciple is not about some kind of

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.

A disciple lives under the

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of Jesus.

• They live under His

. That is what it means for Him to be Lord. Or if we want to Lordship from a more emotional standpoint, He is our greatest desire, our treasure, the relationship we value the most.
• Another way of saying this is: A disciple

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Jesus >> Luke 9:23 | “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
• What does it mean to take up your cross? It is synonymous with denying to yourself as He said earlier in the verse. But it amplifies the meaning.
• Galatians 2:20 | I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

A disciple follows Jesus in believer’s

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• Baptism is a

of what Jesus has done by the individual being immersed in water and coming back out, representing Jesus dying, being buried, and rising again.
• While it is not an absolute requirement for salvation (think of the thief on the Cross), this should typically follow soon after salvation as the first

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of whether or not the person is living under Jesus’ Lordship and authority.
• Going into the water is a testimony that you have turned your back on the

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that put Jesus to death and you are walking in the new life that Jesus died for you to have.

A disciple

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from Jesus

• How do you learn from Jesus? How does the Holy Spirit grow you?
• Wednesdays we have been talking about How Disciples Grow. Check it out and learn how to grow.
• Hint: It starts with the Word of God. That is the

of God’s grace that provides spiritual power for everything in the Christian life >> 2 Timothy 3:16-17 | All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.