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Fakers or Followers
Fakers or Followers
What is the hardest thing you have ever been asked to do?
Deployed to Saudi story-
Being a follower in not always easy.
I want to be honest - not like some
It does take sacrifice and calls for it.
24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Fakers or Followers
Fakers or Followers
Take up cross - doesn't meant wearing it
Intense - electric chair
Think about it:
If you had to choose from never watching Netflix or never read your Bible. which would you choose?
If you had to choose from missing youth or missing a party or trip to a theme park, which would you?
I f you had to choose from friends who are pressuring you to do something wrong and choosing different friends, which would you?
Don't answer but be honest with yourself.
Some of those sound extreme
We think when Jesus says you may loose your life it is a metaphor, but the reality is there are people who are doing just that.
Yet they keep going, keep pushing forward
That's what we are looking at tonight.
Let’s pray
Self or Others
Self or Others
Fakers sacrifice others to serve themselves. Followers sacrifice themselves to serve others.
Ever heard the Story of the Good Samaritan?
25 And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?”
27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” 29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
Self or Others
Self or Others
Looking for answers
Love meant more - I love ribs I love my Wife
Real love is action
Real love is sacrifice
Love is a choice to sacrifice yourself for the good of another
Self or Others
Self or Others
30 Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead.
31 Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. 32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
33 But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. 34 He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.
35 And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.’
36 Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?”
Self or Others
Self or Others
it is same question today - who is it?
37 He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” And Jesus said to him, “You go, and do likewise.”
Sacrifice yourself to serve someone else.
We don’t do what is convenient, we do what is right , even if it is hard
Self or Others
Self or Others
This is what it means to Love God with everything
We do that by loving others
We sacrifice for others because He sacrificed for us.
He said it:
24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
What sacrifice can you do for someone else this week?
Let’s go to our small groups and talk it over.
Let’s pray
