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Cuz we get into your words tonight.

Let's pray that you would.

You would speak to us?

That we believe those words that that there's nothing, that's better than you and I pray that we would put you Above All Else.

Got it.

We would, we would trust that truth.

That we believe in that we Proclaim that there's nothing, that's better than you got to think about Peter, that when Jesus asked him.

If you ask the disciples, if they wanted to leave and he said, where we going to go, you happy, you alone, have the words of fight and I got to believe that.

So over the next few minutes if we get into your work together, I pray that your spirit would speak to us and Ross to you got that.

We would walk out of here, loving you more and looking more like Jesus and so we ask all this in his name and then

all right.

Mark, chapter 10, verses 28 through 31 and tonight we're real fancy.

Yeah.

Mark, chapter 10, verses 28 through 31, a read it, then we'll recap a little bit and then we'll get into it tonight.

Jesus said, truly, I say to you, there is before that, Peter began to say to him.

See we have left everything and followed you.

And she's a said, truly I say to you.

There is no one who has left house or brother or sisters or mother or father, children Alliance For my sake.

And for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now, and this time houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children, and lands with persecutions, and then the ace become eternal life.

But many who are first will be last.

And the last first, So the past couple weeks we can talk about the Rich Young Ruler and going into that and small groups.

And so, you've got this and he says, good teacher, what do I need to do to inherit eternal life.

And I have this little talk about following the Commandments, and he says, now I'm, I'm perfect that done at all.

What do I need to do? Jesus says, sell everything you have and he walks away.

Sad, since Jesus turns to the disciples and he has this teaching moment and he says, it is harder for a rich person to get into heaven harder than going, a camel going through the eye of a needle.

I need Jesus doubles down and he says, actually it's not just the rich that have a problem with submitting and putting God on the throne instead of something else, we're all slaves to something.

He says he goes from saying, how hard it is for the rich.

Just saying children is so hard and it's only possible with God to be able to submit those things to him.

It's only work in the spirit books, in the skies walked away.

And he says, Jesus, look at everything, we give up for you.

And then I have this Exchange.

What time Brewers had a very different situation than maybe the guy that you remember me talking about a couple weeks back named William Borden William Borden was the guy that was going to inherit the Borden Dairy company for two billion dollars.

Today he was an Ivy League, rad had all the money.

He had everything you ever wanted and his dad died right after he graduated college and he was set to inherit this giant Fortune.

You might remember me saying that he was convicted because he had been at a missions conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

This is the kind of the turn of the 19th 20th century.

He was convicted about Muslims, living in western China that I never heard the gospel.

And so he said that he wanted to go, so he got on the boat, left to sail across the ocean who wrote the front of his Bible.

No regrets.

No Reserves.

But no reserves and then he lands in Egypt to learn Arabic.

And he's left all his family behind and he writes no retreats in front of his Bible.

I think it's just such a different picture than the Rich Young Ruler.

Who's got this one thing that he just can't let go of?

As opposed to this young guy, that has everything.

But says no reserves.

I'm not going to hold anything back.

Then you got the Rich, Young Ruler, who turns and walks away from Jesus.

William Borden says, no Retreats.

I'm not turning back.

I chosen him and some Peter.

Thanks.

You know, we burned our bridges so to speak and he says Jesus.

Look at everything we've given up.

Since we watch everything, if you read Matthew's account of the the same thing that happens, the funny thing is Peter follows that up and he says, alright, Jesus, what do we get?

Like, we gave up everything now.

What's the reward that we get in response?

Answer Jesus response with these words.

And so written, this, the past the past week, there's three things that I noticed that I think your significant that I want to share her the next to the first thing as the great cost.

I mean, it's just really obvious when you read the passage following.

Jesus Takes a lot of sacrifice, it's not easy.

I mean, when you read Matthew's account of it and it's like Peter's trying to see what he can get out of it.

Kind of seems like an immature thing to do.

You know, Peter was trying to see what he can get out of it, but at the same time we have to admit, how much she gave up for Jesus.

And whether it was the disciples who were tax collectors and maybe had a lot of money or is it was the disciples who were fishermen.

All of them gave up everything that had, they took this huge leap of faith, and there was a ton of sacrifice involved.

It's not easy to follow Jesus.

But it wasn't limited to the 12 disciples when I was reading this this past week, the example that came to mind was in Acts chapter 4, the scanning, Barnabas followed Jesus and he takes this giant piece of land that he has.

And he sells it and he takes the money and he likes it before the apostles feet.

And so Jesus says, everything that you give up Mother's brothers sisters and it's almost there's this assumption that you're going to lose family members.

And some of y'all have lost family members or you have tense relationships with family members because you're going to follow Jesus Jesus, there's almost this assumption that that's going to happen if we're going to lose relationships.

And he says, you're going to gain all that back.

And then he says this weird thing about when to and Barnabas is a really good picture of that because he sells everything he has and he says, what's mine is my brothers and sisters in Christ.

So he gives up his money and he lies it before the leaders, the church to give to the poor.

It takes sacrifice.

If we actually want to follow Jesus in the way that the disciples did not early church, there's a great cost involved.

There's not a great cost to going to church.

You lose a couple hours of sleep and maybe it was an hour and a half out of your day, but to actually follow Jesus, there's a great cost.

I think of this guy named a lot, a lot, a was he grew up in West Africa and there was some missionaries there.

That I know that we're working with a people group translating the Bible and Latte.

He came to them and he said, hey, I really want to go to Europe for University, will you pay for my college?

And they thought about it a lot because what typically happens is that Africans, go to Europe for college, and they get a good education and then all the European corporations hire them up and let's Nacho the best talent from Africa.

And said they talked to him and they're like, you know, right?

What do this but if we're going to do this, we want you to come back and be a blessing to your people and he said I'm going to do it and I trust that he was really going to do it and said I did.

So he went he studied Agriculture and he came back and he gave his life to Christ and he said, I want to come back and want to use the skills God's given me an agriculture.

So there were all these people from his people group that, we're starving all the time.

And he showed up and he said, I want to teach you these better agricultural techniques that I learned.

Here right now.

We don't believe you or maybe we do believe you, but if you're wrong one bad Harvest and we're going to starve to death.

And they would keep, I'm not like an agricultural expert, but they would keep the same crops over and over and over and it was killing the soil, but they felt like if we try anything new and it doesn't work, we're going to die.

So he started a farm and he proved it to him first.

And then he said, okay now come to my farm now that you know, that it works and I'll show you how to grow pineapples and cashews and you go back and you do the same thing.

So that would come to his farm, they would learn how to do it and then he would share the gospel with them.

So for those they were already Christians, he would teach them how to share their faith for those that weren't, they would have a Bible study and he was leading people to Christ and send them out to start better Farms.

And send them out of church planters.

Some guy came to him and he said I'm sick and tired of what you're doing.

We're Muslim or not Christian, you're going to stop this right now.

And like I said, no, I can't do that.

So is that okay, I'm going to curse you.

Next week, you're going to die in a car accident.