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- “There is no cost you can pay in following Jesus that won’t be made up a thousandfold in the resurrection.”
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So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 3:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
- What Does the Bible Say About Following Jesus? - OpenBible.info
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you...
- What Does the Bible Say About Following Jesus? - OpenBible.info
- 1 Peter 2:21 ESV / 433 helpful votes. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
- Matthew 16:24 ESV / 424 helpful votes. Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
- John 8:12 ESV / 376 helpful votes. Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
- 1 Corinthians 11:1-2 ESV / 341 helpful votes. Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.
Oct 27, 2002 · To the rich young ruler Jesus said, It is going to cost you all your possessions to follow me: "Sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me" (Matthew 19:21).
May 20, 2024 · In Luke 9, Jesus confronted many people who desired to follow him, but He was met with reasons why they couldn’t follow Him immediately: In verses 57-58, a man says he will follow Jesus wherever he goes, but Jesus tells him that he has no place to lay his head, no home of his own.
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Jesus is calling people to follow him in discipleship, and then he’s reminding them that it’s like building a tower that you don’t want to leave half-finished because you don’t have enough commitment or enough resources to finish it. It’s like going to war and realizing you don’t have enough soldiers to win the battle and defeat the enemy. So, he s...
Let’s back up now. Here’s verses 26–27, just before the unit she cites. He says this: “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” — notice the word was hate— “he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my...
Now, let’s go to the other side of the text and jump forward three verses. Jesus ends the paragraph like this: “So, therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:33). Now, there are two absolutes in that sentence. One is found in the phrase any one. This applies to every disciple, not just a select ...
Disciples are all in, or they’re not in. That’s what the text is saying. But let’s make sure that Sally and the rest of us get this in right perspective, because just a few paragraphs earlier — in this same chapter — Jesus said, after he laid down some pretty high costs, “You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just” (Luke 14:14). In other wo...
The Cost of Following Jesus - As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no ...
Jesus is worth so much more than anything else in all the world, that every loss endured to have more of him can be endured with joy. Paul gave us a living example of this parable. He said in Philippians 3:7ff.,
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