The Commitment of a Disciple

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The Commitmentof a Disciple

• The Parable of the Sower
• Mark 43-9
• (Explanation, verses 16-19)

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The Commitment of a Disciple

• Disciple a learner, pupil.
• Jesus demands great sacrifice from his disciples
  (Lk. 1426-27)

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Luke 1426-27

• If anyone comes to Me and does
  not hate his father and mother, wife
  and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his
  own life also, he cannot be My disciple. 27 And
  whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me
  cannot be My disciple.

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The Commitment of a Disciple

• Disciple a learner, pupil.
• Jesus demands great sacrifice from his disciples
  (Lk. 1426-27) Note the following illustrations
• Builder Luke 1428-30

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Luke 1428-30

• For which of you, intending to
  build a tower, does not sit down
  first and count the cost, whether he has
  enough to finish it -- 29 lest, after he has laid
  the foundation, and is not able to finish, all
  who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, This
  man began to build and was not able to finish.

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The Commitment of a Disciple

• Disciple a learner, pupil.
• Jesus demands great sacrifice from his disciples
  (Lk. 1426-27) Note the following illustrations
• Builder Luke 1428-30
• King Luke 1431-33

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Luke 1431-33

• Or what king, going to make war against
  another king, does not sit
  down first and consider whether he is able with
  ten thousand to meet him who comes against him
  with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the
  other is still a great way off, he sends a
  delegation and asks conditions of peace. 33 So
  likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all
  that he has cannot be My disciple.

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The Commitment of a Disciple

• Disciple a learner, pupil.
• Jesus demands great sacrifice from his disciples
  (Lk. 1426-27) Note the following illustrations
• Builder Luke 1428-30
• King Luke 1431-33
• Farmer Luke 957-62

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Luk 957-62

• Now it happened as they journeyed
  on the road, that someone said to Him,
  Lord, I will follow You
  wherever You go. 58 And Jesus said to him,
  Foxes have holes and birds of the air have
  nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His
  head. 59 Then He said to another, Follow Me.
  But he said, Lord, let me first go and bury my
  father. 60 Jesus said to him, Let the dead bury
  their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom
  of God. 61 And another also said, Lord, I will
  follow You, but let me first go and bid them
  farewell who are at my house. 62 But Jesus said
  to him, No one, having put his hand to the plow,
  and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

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The Commitment of a Disciple

• Disciple a learner, pupil.
• Jesus demands great sacrifice from his disciples
  (Lk. 1426-27) Note the following illustrations
• Builder Luke 1428-30
• King Luke 1431-33
• Farmer Luke 957-62
• Bondservant Galatians 110 220

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Galatians 110 220

• (110), For do I now persuade
  men, or God? Or do I seek to please
  men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a
  bondservant of Christ.
• (220), I have been crucified with Christ it is
  no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me and
  the life which I now live in the flesh I live by
  faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave
  Himself for me.

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Conclusion

• I have fought the good fight, I have finished
  the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Finally,
  there is laid up for me the crown of
  righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
  Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me
  only but also to all who have loved His
  appearing (2 Timothy 47-8)
• Revelation 210

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Revelation 210

• Do not fear any of those things
  which you are about to suffer.
  Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you
  into prison, that you may be tested, and you will
  have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until
  death, and I will give you the crown of life.