Costs and Crosses Luke 14:25-35

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Costs and CrossesLuke 1425-35

• Consider the Cost of Following Jesus
• Loving Jesus Above All Else (v. 26)
• My Family
• My Job
• My Success
• My Reputation
• My Safety
• My Comfort
• My Own Abilities, Talents, and Strengths

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• Consider the Cost of Following Jesus
• To Love Jesus Above All Else
• This Involves Carrying My Cross
• Slow, Weak, Difficult
• NOT
• Fast, Easy, or Convenient

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• The Way of the Cross
• Mustard Seed Seemingly Insignificant,
  Powerless, and Defeated
• Judgmental Heart Confront Myself First,
  Recognizing My Own Sinfulness
• Unforgiving Heart Absorb the Pain, Giving Up
  the Urge for Vengeance on My Own
• Extending Heart Loving Samaritans Who Are
  Different Than Me
• Generosity Giving, Instead of Keeping to
  Validate My Security, Comfort, or Reputation
• Trusting God as a Good Father, Instead of
  Depending on Myself, as if Im Super-Human or
  Sub-Human
• Putting Jesus at the Center of My Life (Rule of
  Life)

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• Luke 1512
• 'Father, give me my share of the estate.' So he
  divided his property between them.
• Luke 1517
• "When he came to his senses, he said, 'How many
  of my father's hired men have food to spare, and
  here I am starving to death!
• John 668
• Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we
  go? You have the words of eternal life.

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• John 1917
• Carrying his own cross, he went out Here they
  crucified him.
• 2 Corinthians 514-15 (The Message)
• For Christ's has moved me He included everyone
  in his death so that everyone could also be
  included in his life, a resurrection life, a far
  better life than people ever lived on their own.

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• Costly grace confronts us as a gracious call to
  follow Jesus, it comes as a word of forgiveness
  to the broken spirit and the contrite heart.
• It is costly because it compels a person to
  submit to the yoke of Christ and follow him it
  is grace because Jesus says "My yoke is easy and
  my burden is light.
• - Dietrich Bonhoeffer