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Worship Songs
Living For Jesus - Thomas O. Chishom
Give Me To You - Newsboys
We Belong To Jesus - Brady Toops
The Cross Medley - The Discovery Singers
No Turning Back - Brandon Heath
Call To Worship Scripture
Sermon Scripture
Living Free In Christ
https://www.insight.org/resources/bible/the-gospels/luke
Jesus (true authority) Commissions The Twelve
The power and authority comes from Christ
The directive, charge, purpose and proclamation comes from Christ.
The “how to” and “what to do” comes from Christ.
The World (authority) Is Perplexed
Luke 9:7
The disciples were obedient to Christ and the world had to take notice
The greatest work that can be done by us for Christ is that of obedience.
The gospel is the freedom of obedience.
It perplexes earthly authorities and reaches the uttermost villages with the gospel.
Three Key Truths:
All provision comes from Christ.
We opperate by the will of God in all situations not by percieved availibility or possibility.
Thus our greatest searching daily is what is the will of God for me today, and He will provide all else.
Luke 9:10
Jesus Is The Christ of God
It is essential that we not only know this or think of Jesus as a prophet or good man or teacher, but as the Christ of God and we proclaim it.
This also highlights that Jesus is not merely a healer or a get rich quick or make your life better gimic.
Jesus is to be reverenced for who He is not for what you want.
Luke 9:18
Jesus Will/has Suffer/ed & Demonstrate/d Power Over Death
With this statement of Christ, all of the prior statements are brought into focus and context.
We are not speaking merely of present provision, present authority or the present ministry of Christ and His followers, but Christ Himself points His followers to a Kingdom beyond death.
Luke 9:21
Jesus also demonstrates here that He is in full power over all, even over the cross.
The Message For All:
Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.
What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?
(NIV)
“If anyone would come after me” - what is being described is a following of Jesus.
We have heard the call to:
Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand
To love God with all of our heart, strength, soul, and mind and our neighbors the same.
But for what purpose are these things done?
How are they done?
How are we identified as Christians, as Christ followers rather than just a crowd that gathers, sees good stuff and then goes home?
You have to notice a difference here.
There are those who witness Christ, but never follow Christ.
Those who see the great wonders of Christ but never understand who He is.
Those who witness the power of Christ, taste the love of Christ but never know the freedom of Christ.
How is it then that one Repents and steps out of the relam of this worlds authority into the Kingdom of Heaven?
How is it that one takes the action of loving God with all of their being?
How is it that we become more than a crowd of spectators and join as true disiciples of Christ?
1. Deny self - To affirm that one has no connection or acquaintance with someone (as Peter’s denial of Christ.)
Here it is to forget one's own self, lose sight of one's self and one's own interests.
In other words we here at the church don’t parade around the I’m a victim complex that is so prevelent in our society.
To often we believe everyone else is the problem and we need to just get more in-touch with ourselves and not care about everyone else so much.
“Were a victim of this and a victim of that.”
Our greatest battle is with our own selves.
Our self that wants to hold onto its lust and passions.
Our self that has our own will established and wants God’s will to bend to it.
Our own self that cannot see beyond the five loaves in front of us or recognize that the Christ is present with us as our daily bread.
It is ourselves that read the word of God and place a “but” after the commands of Christ.
It is ourselves who neglect the Word of God or put others over the commands of Christ.
Listen friends, until Christ is the most prominent, most important and centric love of your life to which you are alone devoted, then you need to recognize that:
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You are not self-controlled, or spirit-controlled but rather lust driven.
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Your life is not in proper order.
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You are not walking as a faithful disciple of Christ.
2. Take up cross (daily) - To raise or hoist up.
Take up cross - To raise or hoist up.
Daily, you take up, you lift up, you live for (not those things of the world or self) but the cross - your cross - which is the cross of Christ.
We are baptized in Christ, that is identified in Christ in His death and therefore also in His resurrection.
Daily we live unto this end that what we have as power for living is found alone in the cross of Christ and what hold as our lasting joy is found in the hope of the resurrection.
Daily then we live by the power of the cross for the joy set before us and not for the things of this world.
This is why Paul, in speaking of the certainty of the resurrection says in that, “I die every day!”
3. Follow Jesus - to follow one who precedes, join him as his attendant, accompany him.
Become a disciple.
We die every day, we take up the cross every day to know the companionship of Christ, to be identified as His.
There is nothing greater for us as Christians in this world than for the world in it’s perplexed state to identify us as a follower of Christ - that my friends is our greatest gain.
Final Caution:
There is something before each of us right now which is compromising our singular allegiance and full obedience to Christ.
It is that thing that if we let go of, or treat differently than what we have worked out in our head or what we can see, we fear that our world will fall apart.
We will let go of so much, but that one final thread is still pulling at us and we fear that if we let that go, then all will come unraveled.
If we give away those five loaves what will we have to eat?
If we leave the fishing boats what job will we have for provision?
If we walk as Christ commands then what company will we have to keep?
But Christ says:
Luke 9:
You see, even if you get things to work out the way that you want it, what does it prophet you in hell?
What can anything, anyone or any amount of stuff in this world prophet anyone if in getting it they trample upon the Son of Man, Jesus Christ the one who came to seek and save?
The question we have to answer when we wake up is, “who is going to live through me today?”
Myself and my own desires or the will of God? Will I live by the power, authority and freedom of Christ Jesus and as such lift up the cross as my own and follow the teachings of Christ?
Or will I list out my desires, my needs, my wants and be driven only to pursue that which is fleeting being ashamed of Christ and lusting for another?
Church, let us deny ourselves, lets take up our cross and follow Jesus.
Lets perplex the world.
- Amen.
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