Count the Cost 1
February 13, 2022
  • Luke 14:25–30 (ESV)
    “Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26 ‘If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’”

“Cost”

*to tear, consume, devour. An expense that is something which eats up one’s resources. *

  • John 6:66 
    “From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more”

Jesus is not interested in half-hearted

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to Him

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  • Luke 14:31–33 (ESV) 31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

Discipleship is a Determined and Difficult
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…where the
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and Blessings far
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the
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“does not hate….his life”

26 “And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple” 27
“In the same way, any of you who do not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple.” 31-33

“Courage is doing what you are

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to do. There can be no courage unless you are afraid.” —– Eddie Rickenbacker

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  • 2 Corinthians 11:3 (NIV) “But I am afraid
    that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.”

  • Matthew 10:32–33 (NIV) “Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. 33 But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.