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							  Cost of
Discipleship
  Luke 14:25-33
          Call to Discipleship
• 242 times in NT

• Jesus MADE disciples – Jn 4:1-2

• Great Commission – Mtt. 28:18-19
       Call to Discipleship
•   All nations
•   Make Disciples
•   baptizing them –
•   Teach to observe
    – My commands
             Hardships
•1st   century
 – Christianity UNKNOWN
 – Hated by unbelieving Jews
 – Hated by Romans
 – Hated by Pagan religions
 – Despised by philosophers
          Count the Cost

• Personal - 25
              Hate

• Love wife
• Honor parents –
• Love enemy
           Matthew 10:32

• Whoever loves father or mother
  more than me is not worthy of me,
  and whoever loves son or daughter
  more than me is not worthy of me.
         Count the Cost

• Personal – 25
• Bear Cross – 26
  – Gal. 2:20 –
  – Romans 6:11-
       Count Cost

• Build Tower ?
       Count Cost

• Build Tower ?
• Going to War ?
Cost   Benefit
 Cost            Benefit
• Family
• Friends
• Job
• Possessions
• Ease of life
• Death
 Cost            Benefit
• Family         • Eternal Life
• Friends        • Heaven
• Job            • Glory
• Possessions    • Honor
• Ease of life
                 • Peace
• Death
Cost   Benefit
       • Moral freedom
       • Sunday free
       • Selfish – OK
       • Worldly - OK
 Cost          Benefit
• 1 John 4:4   • Moral freedom
• Rom. 8:31    • Sunday free
• Rom. 8:37    • Selfish – OK
• Mtt. 10:28   • Worldly - OK
 Cost            Benefit
• Eternal Life   • Moral freedom
• Heaven         • Sunday free
• Glory          • Selfish – OK
• Honor          • Worldly - OK
• Peace
 Cost         Benefit
               • 28:18
        MatthewMoral freedom
• Eternal Life
               • Jesus
•All Authority – Sunday free
  Heaven
•Make DisciplesSelfish – OK
  Glory        •
•Baptizing them
  Honor        • Worldly - OK
•Teaching them to Observe
  Peace
 Cost            Benefit
• Eternal Life   • Moral freedom
• Heaven         • Sunday free
• Glory          • Selfish – OK
• Honor          • Worldly - OK
• Peace