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First Obsessions First
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Entice: I think every disciple should be passionate about the Mission of the Church.
Beginning locally and extending globally we need to be passionate about making disciples.
What about preliminaries?
Before we can make the great commission our mission
• Entice: I think every disciple should be passionate about the Mission of the Church.
Beginning locally and extending globally we
We must make the good confession our great obsession
need to be passionate about making disciples.
There is a preliminary.
Before we can make the great commission our motivation
And that begins with a question and a cross.
Jesus asks the question.
Then, He offers the cross.
we must make the great confession our obsession.
And that begins with a question and a cross.
Jesus asks the question.
Then,
Engage: Do we view the crosses we carry as blessings or curses?
Are the liabilities or assets?
Our answer could very well determine the passion with which we carry the crosses that are ours to carry, and the enthusiasm with which we embrace the way of the cross.
He offers the cross.
• Engage: Do we view the crosses we carry as blessings or curses?
Are the liabilities or assets?
Our answer could very well
Expand: Despite the well know, sputtering, inarticulate, objections of Peter; Jesus clearly did not view His cross (or ours) with polarizing either/or eyes.
Crosses may be painful, but when they are necessary, when they convey saving potential they are not really bad or good…
determine the passion with which we carry the crosses that are ours to carry.
• Expand: Despite the well know, sputtering, inarticulate, objections of Peter Jesus clearly did not view His cross (or ours) with
crosses are realities on the road of obedience.
those polarizing either/or eyes.
Crosses may be painful, but when they are necessary, when they convey saving potential they are
From the bad, despite the bad, beyond the bad something good is born, God's will is accomplished and the adversary is defeated-
not really bad or good…crosses are realities on the road of obedience.
From the bad, despite the bad, beyond the bad something
not in spite of the cross…
good is born, God's will is accomplished and the adversary is defeated.
but because of the cross!
• Excite: Jesus is not even to Jerusalem yet!
His death has not happened and already He is preparing His disciples (then and now)
Excite: Jesus is not even to Jerusalem yet!
His death has not happened and already He is preparing His disciples (then and now) not only with a truth to believe, and a a message to proclaim, but with a path to follow.
A path that we walk in full, cross-toting obedience.
For it is only…
Excite: Jesus is not even to Jerusalem yet!
His death has not happened and already He is preparing His disciples (then and now)
not only with a truth to believe, and a a message to proclaim, but with a path to follow.
A path that we walk in full, cross-toting
Explore:
obedience.
For it is only…
As we follow Him down the way of the Cross that we discover the full meaning of our discipleship and His Lordship.
• Explore: As we follow along the way of the Cross that we discover the full meaning of our discipleship and His Lordship.
Explain: As Peter before, we have some responses we must make.
• Explain: As Peter before, we have some responses we must make.
1 Announce His Lordship.
8.27-30
▾ 1 Announce His Lordship.
8.27-30
1.1 Promise with Confusion.
27-28
▾ 1.1 Promise and Confusion.
27-28
1.1.1
People are hopeful.
They saw in Jesus a renewal of the hope of Israel and a renewal of the spirit of prophecy.
Today many desire a Jesus who agrees with their perspective and does not call them to conviction.
• 1.1.1
People are hopeful.
They saw in Jesus a renewal of the hope of Israel and a renewal of the spirit of prophecy.
Today many
desire a Jesus who agrees with their perspective and does not call them to conviction.
1.1.2
But they are confused.
They put him among the greats but see only the similarities of Jesus and other great men.
They don't see the differences-and those differences make all the difference in the world.
• 1.1.2
But the are confused.
They put him among the greats but see only the similarities of Jesus and other great men.
They don't
see the differences-and those differences make all the difference in the world.
1.2 Personal with Conviction.
29-30
• 1.2 Personal with Conviction.
29-30
2 Acknowledge His Mission.
8.31-33
▾ 2 Acknowledge His Mission.
8.31-33
2.1 Cross.
• 2.1 Cross.
2.2 Crisis.
• 2.2 Crisis.
2.3 Conscience.
• 2.3 Conscience of God.
(thinking God's thoughts rather than our own.)
(thinking God's thoughts rather than our own.)
▾ 3 Accept His Example.
8.34-9.1///The
real stumbling block is not Christ's Cross…It's ours!
Yours and mine.
Because discipleship
3 Accept His Example.
8.34-9.1
The real stumbling block is not Christ's Cross…It's ours!
Yours and mine.
Because discipleship is not just about believing that Jesus died for me, but committing to living for Him in cross-bearing self-denial.
is not just about believing that Jesus died for me, but committing to living for Him in cross-bearing self-denial.
My cousin Vinny.
The second time Vinny enters court in his leather jacket, the Judge reprimands him for not being properly dressed.
Viny’s repsonse: “your were serious about that?!
There are a lot of “believers” whose response to Jesus is the same when He tells us to take up our cross.
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