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February 8, 1998
As Jesus’ fame grew, He amassed crowds around Him. Some people were even beginning to follow Him consistently. Surprisingly, though, He turned to His followers and spoke with chilling frankness about the difference between being a spectator or a recruit. He was looking not for mere curiosity but for true commitment. In this message, Alistair Begg unpacks Jesus’ startling statements about the seriousness and reality of being His disciple.
25Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26n“If anyone comes to me and odoes not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, pyes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27qWhoever does not rbear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not sfirst sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not tsit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33uSo therefore, any one of you who vdoes not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
34w“Salt is good, xbut if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?
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