The Garden Christian Fellowship: Chatsworth, CA

“Courageous Ministry:  Counting and Embracing the Cost”

Luke 9:57-62

TEXT

As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go."  Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."  He said to another man, "Follow me."  But the man replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."  Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."  Still another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say good-by to my family."  Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God."  -Luke 9:57-62 (NIV)

GETTING RID OF OUR DESIRE FOR COMFORT

Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."  -v.58

GETTING RID OF OUR WRONG PERSPECTIVES

Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."  -v.60

GETTING RID OF OUR DOUBLE-MINDEDNESS

Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God."  -v.62

AND COURAGEOUSLY FOLLOWING JESUS

Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.  -Luke 9:23 (NIV)

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