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What does it mean/cost to be a disciple?
How much does it cost?
Making disciples who make disciples was central to Jesus’ ministry.
It is also the heart of the great commission.
Jesus commanded His disciples and every generation of believers to make disciples.
While we are warranted in keeping track of numbers.
Our most important ministry measuring stick is are we making disciples.
Most evangelical churches understand the need to make disciples.
The bigger issue is understanding the cost and being willing to pay that cost.
A good place to begin would be to remind each other that even though we are able to repeat words does not guarantee that we know what the words mean or what the answer means.
“Ikura desuka?” “Ichi man, nana hyaku, san ju go yen desu” - It is 10,735 yen.
What does it cost/mean to be a disciple?
What does it mean to deny oneself, take up one’s cross and follow Jesus?
What does it mean to not be ashamed of Jesus and His words in an adulterous and sinful generation?
When we ask what something costs, the answer is for the most part only words until we understand the meaning of those words and how that applies in our individual lives.
When it comes to the answering the question, “What is the cost of discipleship?”
, Jesus method of discipling did not always articulate the cost of discipleship.
Quite some time before Jesus called them crowd with the disciples to Him and said,
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He gave them ministry assignments with clearly defined parameters that indirectly but clearly exemplified the cost of discipleship.
Salvation, forgiveness of sin does not happen without Jesus.
And while we are saved by grace through faith, whereby we confess our sin and ask that Jesus righteousness be credited to us.
When that happens, it happens in the context of an unbreakable inseverable relationship with Jesus and our heavenly Father.
So as we observe the disciples in their co-op program, we can begin to answer our question.
What does it mean/cost to be a disciple of Jesus?
Doing what Jesus commands -
Proclaiming that people should repent - 6:12
Jesus set the example - - kingdom of God connection
Repentance and faith - believe
Responses required by God of man to God’s gracious offer of salvation.
Change of mind and heart as turn from sin to God.
True repentance is the work of God in the human heart.
Acts 11:
John the Baptist had previously preached repentance -
Jesus’ primary ministry focus was teaching & preaching - , ; ,, ; ; ,, ; , 6
Meeting people’s other spiritual needs - 6:13
Having been given authority by Jesus to cast out demons - demonstrating Jesus authority over the supernatural world and this confirming Jesus’ claim of being God.
Anoint with oil many who were sick and healed them.
This is the first ministry related reference to oil and healing.
In Jesus’ day oil was often used medicinally - - good Samaritan - bound up his wounds pouring in oil and wine.
Also represented the presence of the Holy Spirit and symbolically represented supernatural healing.
Zech 3:
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Caring out the ministry assignment as commanded - 6:8-11
Take nothing for your journey - staff, one tunic, sandals, no bread, no bag, no money in their belts, no extra tunic.
Because of no reserves and no bag for any extras, they would need to trust God for each meal, any money and anything extra needed.
2. Trusting Jesus to work in the hearts of people to believe and to provide for their needs - 6:8-11
Message proclaimed and ministry carried on - 6:12
In Mark’s and Matthew’s and Luke’s parallel accounts of Jesus sending out the 12 in pairs for ministry, Christ’s instructions did not mention proclaiming the Gospel.
By now, proclaiming the Gospel wherever they went seems to have be expected.
Jesus had done that and now it was their turns.
This will be their first proclaiming the Gospel.
They must be been a bit apprehensive.
Jesus had not always been well accepted.
In fact, he had been soundly rejected in Nazareth.
Nevertheless, the 12 are sent out on their own, without Jesus.
Some might suggest this was too soon.
But they had to start some time.
Mercifully, their first ministries were well received, including dealing with those who were demon possessed and ill.
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No amount of training or experience guarantees a response to the Gospel.
It is not who we know, where we are from or our past that guarantees success today or tomorrow.
Needs for the journey - 6:8-9
Needs for the journey - 6:8-9
Needs for the journey - 6:8-9
This was huge with no guarantees.
Because of no reserves and no contacts in the villages, they were totally dependent on the Lord for all of their needs.
Any money, food would come from those whose hearts the Lord opened.
Because of no reserves and no bag for any extra, they were forced to depend on the Lord and those to whom they ministered for each meal and every need.
Housing and hospitality - 6:10-11
And if God graciously provided more than what they needed, they had no bag to carry the extra with them.
Gentle reminder of God’s provision of manna during the 40 years in the wilderness.
The also had to trust God for place to stay with that place to stay there came God’s indication how long they were to stay and minister there.
Shaking dust off sandals was a object lesson that in rejecting the disciples and their message Jesus was also being rejected - shaking off dust an expression of disdain.
With that gesture they were saying that those whom they were leaving behind pagan/godless.
3. Graciously telling the truth even when it might not be appreciated - not being ashamed of Jesus in an adulterous and sinful generation - 6:14-29
This section begins with the connector King Herod had heard about Jesus ministry through which His name had become known, all kinds of things flooded King Herods’ mind.
The first verses of this portion provide a summary of Herod’s relationship with John the Baptist who Mark mentioned had been arrested.
Now we are given the details of that arrest.
Mark whom we have noted was usually concise, here deviated from that pattern and provides more detail.
Why Herod was concerned -
Why Herod imprisoned John the Baptist -
John had been saying to Herod - It is not lawful for you to marry your brother’s wife.
When Herod heard John he was perplexed but heard him gladly
Herod seemed to have a higher opinion of Jesus than Jesus family or Nazareth neighbours.
How John came to be beheaded -
King Herod - 4 rulers bear the name of Herod the NT
Herod the Great - - had the children 2 years old and younger in Bethlehem murdered - 10 wives
4 sons most of whom went by Herod and some even King Herod
This Herod was officially Herod Tetrarch as were the other sons each ruling 1/4 of the territory ruled by their father.
The delicate balance of being gracious and telling the true message of grace - 6:19-20
This Herod tetrarch - Herod Antipas - of Galilee and Perea -
Jilted his own wife and convinced Herodias to divorce her husband - Herod Philip - Herod Antipas’ 1/2 brother to marry him.
The delicate balance of being gracious and telling the true message of grace - 6:19-20
John is caught in the intrigue of this household.
Although began as the nominal one in charge, Herodias became the conniver who pulled the strings in a context that would have seemed to have be somewhat lewd.
John was there because he kept telling telling Herod that the marriage was not lawful - not lawful according to Mosaic law.
Balance of grace and truth - Jesus was the perfect balance
Grace with no truth or boundaries leads to everything goes - licentiousess
Truth with no grace leads to harsh legalism with no compassion.
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