Part 5 | The Truth About Following Christ
From Luke 9:57-62
📖 Luke 9:57 NIV As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”
📖 Luke 16:15 NIV And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
1. God my !
📖 Luke 9:23-23 NIV Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.
📖 James 1:2-4 NIV “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”
2. I should Christ because I can have , be , and anything through .
📖 Luke 9:59-60 NIV He said to another man, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, first let me go bury my father.” 60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
3. God is both patiently for me and me.
📖 Isaiah 30:18 NIV Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!
“Lord, first let me go .”
If you are willing to put something before then that is your .
📖 Luke 9:60 NIV Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
📖 Luke 9:59-60 NLT He said to another person, “Come, follow me.” The man agreed, but he said, “Lord, first let me return home and bury my father.” 60 But Jesus told him, “Let the spiritually dead bury their own dead! Your duty is to go and preach about the kingdom of God.”
📖 Luke 9:59-60 MSG Jesus said to another, “follow me.” He said, “Certainly, but first excuse me for a couple of days, please. I have to make arrangements for my father’s funeral.” 60 Jesus refused. “First things first. Your business is life, not death. And life is urgent: Announce Gods’s kingdom!”
4. I should Christ because He is concerned with eternal , not death.
📖 Luke 9:61-61 NIV Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family.” 62 Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
📖 Genesis 19:17 NIV As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
📖 Genesis 19:26 NIV But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
5. I should not at what God has already me from because it will lead to .
📖 2 Peter 2:21 NIV For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness then after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
📖 Luke 9:62 NIV Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”.
6. Look to where Jesus is leading you.
Sermon in a Sentence:
When I wholeheartedly Christ, I the past, pursue eternal , experience and in trials, and eagerly God’s guidance.
