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Matthew 16:24 – Following Jesus and the Cost
- The culture has an effect on the body of Christ.
- Many have decided following Christ is “not worth it.”
- This could be because they don’t know Him.
- Apostles said some didn’t stay because they “were never born again to begin with.”
- Only the individual knows if the Spirit of Christ abides within them.
- Fruit can be deceiving.
- What would cause someone who has known and met the love of Christ to lay it down?
- Is Jesus worth it?
- No one in the room has gone through what the Apostle Paul did.
- Is Jesus worth it to *you*?
- It’s not about works to earn God’s favor.
- There has to be something in our heart transformed by His love that makes us say “it’s worth it” in any circumstance.
- Those who have laid down their cross:
- Stopped working, witnessing, praying, reading the Bible, attending church, giving to Christ, etc.
- Saying “it’s too hard” is not acceptable.
- Even in third-world countries where Christians are killed, Christ is growing.
- Is He worth serving with all your heart, effort, affection, and love?
- At what point do we ration Christ in our lives?
- At what point is He not everything?
- At what point do we say “it’s just not worth it?”
- Jesus was open about the cost.
- If a man is going to build something, he figures out if he has the money to finish it.
- If a man is going to fight a battle, he figures out who he’s up against.
- Jesus didn’t hide anything.
- Being born again is not a guarantee of getting everything you want.
- Jesus never promised that life would be perfect.
- Rather have a bad day with Jesus than a good day without Him.
- “I’ve done come too far. I’ve done seen too much.”
- Whatever happens, Jesus is worth all your heart.
- “You’ll never do enough for God.”
- “You’ve never give all.”
- If this message runs you off, you’re just going to go to hell.
- You have to believe and trust Christ.
- If you’re going to be His disciple, there’s a cost.
- Hard things in life stretch and grow our faith and love for Christ.
- Only then do we find out that He never fails.
The Cost
- Jesus said, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself.”
- To follow Him, you have to give up on yourself.
- Being born again was not about you, it’s about Him.
- Jesus made it possible for a wretch to go free.
- To know Christ, you have to deny yourself and give up the notion that you know what to do.
- “Yourself is your biggest problem.”
- It’s the very thing that will never leave you.
- It keeps us from recognizing that He who deserves all glory has put ourselves in His place.
- “We worship ourselves. We worship what we want.”
- There’s a cost to knowing Christ.
- It wasn’t a price of monetary value.
- You have to give up yourself.
- The reason you won’t serve God regularly with all your heart is because you have let yourself get in the way.
- It’s about *you*, not someone else.
- “What we do is what we want to do.”
- With Christ, He’s either Lord of all or not Lord at all.
- He doesn’t share His place by the throne or His glory.
- We’ve got to take up our cross.
- God has given you a cross to bear.
- It’s yours, no one can carry it for you.
- He’s never put on you a cross you couldn’t carry.
- He’s not asking you to do something you can’t do.
- You can’t lay it down or set it aside.
- It’s part of who we are as children of God.
- You’ve got to bear the marks, the shame, the burden of it.
- He will always help you with your burden.
- Some people go through hard times and it drives them closer to God.
- They hold on and believe because He’s God and we aren’t.
- Christ is worth whatever price you have to pay.
- We’ve got to follow Him.
- Obey His commandments.
- Follow the directions of His Holy Writ.
- Follow the Holy Spirit’s moving in your life.
- Obedience is necessary for the born-again believer.
- Left to ourselves, we end up in the ditch.
- Jesus said, “I am the way.”
- It ain’t about what you think or have planned for your life.
- It requires that you follow Jesus.
- It’ll cost you when it’s time to visit or attend prayer meeting.
- It’ll cost you when you have to trust God instead of doing what you think.
- People who aren’t at church: “He ain’t worth it.”
- You do what you want to do.
- Whatever’s most important in your life is what you follow the hardest.
- If you haven’t denied yourself, you won’t follow Jesus.
- Your self doesn’t want to follow Jesus.
- The things of the Spirit are contrary to the things of the flesh and vice versa.
Romans 8 – Is Jesus Christ Worth Following?
- Romans 8:18: “For I reckon…”
- Reckoning is calculating, estimating, comparing, putting together the figures to see what they add up to.
- Paul has calculated what it’s going to cost him to follow Christ and has made up his mind it’s worth it.
- “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present world are not worthy to be compared to the glory that shall be revealed in us.”
- He’s done the math and every way you look at it, He’s worth it.
- Have you done the math?
- 1 Corinthians 15: If in this life only I had hope, I’d be of all men most miserable.
- The problem is we compare the hard things to the good things in this world.
- This world isn’t the end.
- There’s something coming that far outweighs anything you’ll ever go through down here.
- Paul knew something about suffering.
- Some have suffered, but not like him.
- It doesn’t make any difference what you have to go through here, Jesus is worth it.
- “If I don’t get another blessing this side of eternity…Jesus Christ is worth it.”
- “I ain’t going back. I ain’t giving up. I’m not giving in. I’m not laying down. I am going forward.”
- Paul has compared the sufferings of this present world and has determined they are not worthy to be compared to the glory that shall be revealed in us.
- Paul was trying to make certain that he had calculated and understood the total benefit of whatever cost had to be paid.
- He said it’s going to cost my life, but “my life’s not dear to me.”
- “It’s all about Him.”
- “I can’t get up Sunday morning and come to Sunday school, but you can get up and go to a job at 6 a.m.”
- After they had stoned him and left him for dead, he got up and went to the next city and preached Jesus’ kingdom.
- The devil comes and says, “You ought to just quit.”
- Romans 8:14: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”
- “I am now a son of God.”
- “I’m a child of God.”
- That’ll trump everything else in this world.
- Even if you end up like Job, you can say, “Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
- “He’s worth it.”
- Romans 8:15: “For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”
- You have *received* the Spirit.
- The Holy Ghost of God came in and set up a boat in your heart.
- That makes you a child of the King.
- Romans 8:9: “Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.”
- Even if there wasn’t a heaven or eternal glory, having the Holy Spirit in you makes it worth it.
- Romans 8:16: “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.”
- The Holy Spirit knows the truth and everything you’re going through.
- He hasn’t failed one second of His time in you.
- The Holy Spirit gives you the privilege and opportunity to quickly do the reckoning and determine He’s worth it.
- The Holy Spirit bears witness to you.
- “Oh, but have you considered this?”
- Romans 8:17: “And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.”
- The children are to receive the inheritance of the Father.
- You’re heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.
- “Is He worthy? Yeah, He’s worthy.”
- You can’t do enough or suffer enough.
- Based on the Holy Spirit and all He does for us here, and then we get to go to glory, you can’t say it ain’t worth it.
2 Corinthians – Summing it Up
- 2 Corinthians 11: Read about what Paul suffered.
- 2 Corinthians 4:16-17: “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment…”
- How many would consider Paul’s afflictions light?
- What you’re experiencing today will pass.
- The hard thing you go through tomorrow will pass.
- You have to calculate that in.
- “This too shall pass.”
- What you’re going through now is temporary, what’s coming is eternal.
- The temporary is light and small in comparison to the eternal.
- 2 Corinthians 4:18: “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
- We normally focus on the stuff that’s making us weak and that’s hard and hurts and we can’t fix.
- The way that Paul can call what he’s been through light affliction is because he has not focused on the affliction itself, but has instead turned his head to what is coming.
- Is there anything that you would give up Christ for?
- “Oh yeah, He’s worthy.”
- Are you sold out for God?
- Are you doing everything you can do for God?
- Are you doing what He has called you to do, as in praying and reading your Bible and attending the worship services?
- You know the formula and the answer.
- Either He’s worth it or your life will prove otherwise.
- Your actions, your service, your obedience to Christ, it will tell on you if He’s not worthy.
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Matthew 16:24 – Following Jesus and the Cost
- The culture has an effect on the body of Christ.
- Many have decided following Christ is “not worth it.”
- This could be because they don’t know Him.
- Apostles said some didn’t stay because they “were never born again to begin with.”
- Only the individual knows if the Spirit of Christ abides within them.
- Fruit can be deceiving.
- What would cause someone who has known and met the love of Christ to lay it down?
- Is Jesus worth it?
- No one in the room has gone through what the Apostle Paul did.
- Is Jesus worth it to *you*?
- It’s not about works to earn God’s favor.
- There has to be something in our heart transformed by His love that makes us say “it’s worth it” in any circumstance.
- Those who have laid down their cross:
- Stopped working, witnessing, praying, reading the Bible, attending church, giving to Christ, etc.
- Saying “it’s too hard” is not acceptable.
- Even in third-world countries where Christians are killed, Christ is growing.
- Is He worth serving with all your heart, effort, affection, and love?
- At what point do we ration Christ in our lives?
- At what point is He not everything?
- At what point do we say “it’s just not worth it?”
- Jesus was open about the cost.
- If a man is going to build something, he figures out if he has the money to finish it.
- If a man is going to fight a battle, he figures out who he’s up against.
- Jesus didn’t hide anything.
- Being born again is not a guarantee of getting everything you want.
- Jesus never promised that life would be perfect.
- Rather have a bad day with Jesus than a good day without Him.
- “I’ve done come too far. I’ve done seen too much.”
- Whatever happens, Jesus is worth all your heart.
- “You’ll never do enough for God.”
- “You’ve never give all.”
- If this message runs you off, you’re just going to go to hell.
- You have to believe and trust Christ.
- If you’re going to be His disciple, there’s a cost.
- Hard things in life stretch and grow our faith and love for Christ.
- Only then do we find out that He never fails.
The Cost
- Jesus said, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself.”
- To follow Him, you have to give up on yourself.
- Being born again was not about you, it’s about Him.
- Jesus made it possible for a wretch to go free.
- To know Christ, you have to deny yourself and give up the notion that you know what to do.
- “Yourself is your biggest problem.”
- It’s the very thing that will never leave you.
- It keeps us from recognizing that He who deserves all glory has put ourselves in His place.
- “We worship ourselves. We worship what we want.”
- There’s a cost to knowing Christ.
- It wasn’t a price of monetary value.
- You have to give up yourself.
- The reason you won’t serve God regularly with all your heart is because you have let yourself get in the way.
- It’s about *you*, not someone else.
- “What we do is what we want to do.”
- With Christ, He’s either Lord of all or not Lord at all.
- He doesn’t share His place by the throne or His glory.
- We’ve got to take up our cross.
- God has given you a cross to bear.
- It’s yours, no one can carry it for you.
- He’s never put on you a cross you couldn’t carry.
- He’s not asking you to do something you can’t do.
- You can’t lay it down or set it aside.
- It’s part of who we are as children of God.
- You’ve got to bear the marks, the shame, the burden of it.
- He will always help you with your burden.
- Some people go through hard times and it drives them closer to God.
- They hold on and believe because He’s God and we aren’t.
- Christ is worth whatever price you have to pay.
- We’ve got to follow Him.
- Obey His commandments.
- Follow the directions of His Holy Writ.
- Follow the Holy Spirit’s moving in your life.
- Obedience is necessary for the born-again believer.
- Left to ourselves, we end up in the ditch.
- Jesus said, “I am the way.”
- It ain’t about what you think or have planned for your life.
- It requires that you follow Jesus.
- It’ll cost you when it’s time to visit or attend prayer meeting.
- It’ll cost you when you have to trust God instead of doing what you think.
- People who aren’t at church: “He ain’t worth it.”
- You do what you want to do.
- Whatever’s most important in your life is what you follow the hardest.
- If you haven’t denied yourself, you won’t follow Jesus.
- Your self doesn’t want to follow Jesus.
- The things of the Spirit are contrary to the things of the flesh and vice versa.
Romans 8 – Is Jesus Christ Worth Following?
- Romans 8:18: “For I reckon…”
- Reckoning is calculating, estimating, comparing, putting together the figures to see what they add up to.
- Paul has calculated what it’s going to cost him to follow Christ and has made up his mind it’s worth it.
- “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present world are not worthy to be compared to the glory that shall be revealed in us.”
- He’s done the math and every way you look at it, He’s worth it.
- Have you done the math?
- 1 Corinthians 15: If in this life only I had hope, I’d be of all men most miserable.
- The problem is we compare the hard things to the good things in this world.
- This world isn’t the end.
- There’s something coming that far outweighs anything you’ll ever go through down here.
- Paul knew something about suffering.
- Some have suffered, but not like him.
- It doesn’t make any difference what you have to go through here, Jesus is worth it.
- “If I don’t get another blessing this side of eternity…Jesus Christ is worth it.”
- “I ain’t going back. I ain’t giving up. I’m not giving in. I’m not laying down. I am going forward.”
- Paul has compared the sufferings of this present world and has determined they are not worthy to be compared to the glory that shall be revealed in us.
- Paul was trying to make certain that he had calculated and understood the total benefit of whatever cost had to be paid.
- He said it’s going to cost my life, but “my life’s not dear to me.”
- “It’s all about Him.”
- “I can’t get up Sunday morning and come to Sunday school, but you can get up and go to a job at 6 a.m.”
- After they had stoned him and left him for dead, he got up and went to the next city and preached Jesus’ kingdom.
- The devil comes and says, “You ought to just quit.”
- Romans 8:14: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”
- “I am now a son of God.”
- “I’m a child of God.”
- That’ll trump everything else in this world.
- Even if you end up like Job, you can say, “Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
- “He’s worth it.”
- Romans 8:15: “For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”
- You have *received* the Spirit.
- The Holy Ghost of God came in and set up a boat in your heart.
- That makes you a child of the King.
- Romans 8:9: “Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.”
- Even if there wasn’t a heaven or eternal glory, having the Holy Spirit in you makes it worth it.
- Romans 8:16: “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.”
- The Holy Spirit knows the truth and everything you’re going through.
- He hasn’t failed one second of His time in you.
- The Holy Spirit gives you the privilege and opportunity to quickly do the reckoning and determine He’s worth it.
- The Holy Spirit bears witness to you.
- “Oh, but have you considered this?”
- Romans 8:17: “And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.”
- The children are to receive the inheritance of the Father.
- You’re heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.
- “Is He worthy? Yeah, He’s worthy.”
- You can’t do enough or suffer enough.
- Based on the Holy Spirit and all He does for us here, and then we get to go to glory, you can’t say it ain’t worth it.
2 Corinthians – Summing it Up
- 2 Corinthians 11: Read about what Paul suffered.
- 2 Corinthians 4:16-17: “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment…”
- How many would consider Paul’s afflictions light?
- What you’re experiencing today will pass.
- The hard thing you go through tomorrow will pass.
- You have to calculate that in.
- “This too shall pass.”
- What you’re going through now is temporary, what’s coming is eternal.
- The temporary is light and small in comparison to the eternal.
- 2 Corinthians 4:18: “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
- We normally focus on the stuff that’s making us weak and that’s hard and hurts and we can’t fix.
- The way that Paul can call what he’s been through light affliction is because he has not focused on the affliction itself, but has instead turned his head to what is coming.
- Is there anything that you would give up Christ for?
- “Oh yeah, He’s worthy.”
- Are you sold out for God?
- Are you doing everything you can do for God?
- Are you doing what He has called you to do, as in praying and reading your Bible and attending the worship services?
- You know the formula and the answer.
- Either He’s worth it or your life will prove otherwise.
- Your actions, your service, your obedience to Christ, it will tell on you if He’s not worthy.
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