Think About It
The extreme character of discipleship: The language is unmistakably absolute, definitive, severe, you might say. But this is not anyone speaking other than God Himself, God incarnate, the Lord, Jesus Christ. He establishes the standards of discipleship. He determines the character of true repentance and saving faith. And it seems, when you study the words of Jesus, that instead of making it easy, He always seemed to make it hard. In fact, by most human assessments He makes it virtually impossible. We’re good in our culture at making things easy. Simplify, simplify we’re told. Make it as easy as possible. And this even finds its way into the church where we want to devise a gospel or a message that is easy to receive and easy to accept and easy to believe. This is not what Jesus did. ~ John MacArthur
Read / Listen
Joshua 3:1-4:24
Luke 14:7-35
Psalm 80:1-19
Proverbs 12:27-28
New Testament
Luke 14:7-35
Summary
The Parable of Wedding Feast
The Parable of the Great Banquet
The Cost of Discipleship
Salt Without Taste Is Worthless
What did Jesus mean when He instructed us to hate our father and mother (Luke 14:26)?
hate. A similar statement in Matthew 10:37 is the key to understanding this difficult command. The “hatred” called for here is actually a lesser love. Jesus was calling His disciples to cultivate such a devotion to Him that their attachment to everything else—including their own lives—would seem like hatred by comparison.
~ MacArthur Bible Commentary
What does it mean to “count the cost” (Luke 14:28)?
Overview: Luke 10-24 Click Here to Watch Video
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