The Cost Of Discipleship

Introduction

Me and my Brother Landen have recently decided that we are going to undertake a brand new project, we are going to find cars that have by all regards seen better days.

Cars that society rejects and even potentially looks at as a bottom feeder type of car.

We aren’t just going to get these cars to take up space in the yard, no.

We are going look at all the issues these cars are having.

Whether that’s oil leak, suspension issues, whatever.

and we are going to fix those issues, both for fun, to make a little profit, and also give the car a new life.

The reason I tell you that is not to explain mine or my brothers passion for cars. But instead to paint this picture.

Each and every person in this room was born to the standard of a junkyard car. We were born into sin and brokeness.

I want each of you in this room to know that while the world will look at you beaten down, hurting, and say this person has no worth.

God will look at you even in your brokeness and say, I created you. I see the value in you. I want to use you.

So how long then will you look at the world for your fulfillment and value?

See this though that a Christian who doesn’t leave the church, has the same value and purpose as a cool car that never leaves the garage.

We are going to continue today to talk about that exact value that God sees in you and the importance of getting out of the garage with your faith:

Remember here that Peter has been talking about Christ setting the example for us of how we are to handle our trials, tribulations, and how we are to use those as a platform to glorify him

We will continue today in Peter

Body

1 Peter 4:1–6 CSB

1 Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same understanding—because the one who suffers in the flesh is finished with sin—2 in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will. 3 For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the Gentiles choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry. 4 They are surprised that you don’t join them in the same flood of wild living—and they slander you. 5 They will give an account to the one who stands ready to judge the living and the dead. 6 For this reason the gospel was also preached to those who are now dead, so that, although they might be judged in the flesh according to human standards, they might live in the spirit according to God’s standards.

The cost of discipleship means that maybe those friends that you have, that you probably shouldn’t have in the first place won’t hang out with you anymore. It means people may not tell you all their drama like they use to.

That’s because you won’t give them the response they want. You won’t behave in the same way that the world does.

The cost of discipleship is small, but the benefit is great.