The Price is Right!

The Price is Right is the longest running tv game show. Bob Barker was the host for many years and now Drew Carry is the host. I always wanted to be on that show just to hear Scott Onque Come on down you are the next contestant on the Price is Right!

Well we have gotten the call except its not a game its a call to salvation. Our name has been called we are now apart of God’s family. At least we say we are. Yes we are now followers of Christ. And though salvation is free we will learn discipleship will cost you something.

Jesus speaks to the great crowd that is now following him. He knows that all those who following him has what it takes to be his disciple. Jesus said, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

The he said 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. Well this may put some in a quandary. First to follow after Jesus you must hate your own father and mother wife and children brothers and sisters. Wow is all this just to follow Jesus. Is this Price Right? Jesus allows us the figure this out for ourselves. Have you counted the cost. of discipleship? If you have not then this might be a good time to figure it out! As for me the Price id Right!

When I think about what Christ has given me through the gift of salvation and the promises of God that are wrapped up in the gift I actually see it as a small price to pay to make my life better. Yes discipleship is about getting better.

What is a disciple? The anchor Yale Bible Dictionary defines it this way: The people in the NT who stood in a special and intensive relationship with the earthly Jesus. All 261 references to “disciple” in the NT are found in the Gospels and Acts. Its this concept of following Jesus. This word mathetes appears often in the verb form matheteuo in the active “voice to make someone into a disciple”

So the great commission becomes clearer for we know that the first teach in the great commission is translated make disciples. We have to teach people about waht comes with discipleship. So, what is Jesus really getting at? Believe it or not, Jesus is talking about love. What’s at the heart of what Jesus is telling us, is not that we are to hate, but in order to become His disciples we must love Jesus more than anyone or anything in life. Jesus is reminding us in very stark ways that there is a cost to discipleship.

The decision to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, Forgiver and Leader is a one time decision. Yet the process of growing in Christ is a decision we make on a daily basis.

Will I gossip and talk about others or keep stories to myself?

Will I watch 5 hours of television or pray for 5 minutes?

Which book will I choose to read today, the Bible or something else?

Will I forgive or won’t I?

Will I condemn or encourage? Is the price right and are you willing to pay it? Its a struggle sometimes but you have to be will to pay the price of growing in Christ! Those are some of the daily decisions we make. If we choose God first, we know some of those answers. Of course you can watch television or read a book, but where does God fit into your life?

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Weder, H. (1992). Disciple, Discipleship. In D. N. Freedman (Ed.), D. Martin (Trans.), The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (Vol. 2, p. 207). New York: Doubleday.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.

Growing in Christ doesn’t happen overnight, that would be nice, but growing in Christ is a life long process. We are called to make a daily decision to follow Christ, even when it is costly. That’s what Jesus is talking about.This isn’t about accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior again and again. It’s about following Him in our daily lives.

It’s about giving ourselves to Christ.There is one love relationship Jesus wants us to have, and it’s the one He had. It’s to love God more than any other relationship you have. That’s the basic meaning of this passage. In reality, Jesus is telling us to love our parents, our spouse and children, our brothers and sisters and even life, but to love them “LESS THAN” we love Jesus.

Matthew said it another way —37 Whoever loves father or mother MORE THAN me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. –

God is to come first in our lives. There’s no debate on that one. Is it easy to do? Nope. And on top of that there are risks associated with this type of love. g If God is first in our lives, then all of my relationships will be based on the love relationship I have with God. On my own, I don’t know how to love. I may have ideas, but my ideas and methods will always fall short compared to God’s way.

If I look to God as the source and guide of my life, then I will love better.If I place God first in my life, then I will be a better husband, father, son, brother, friend and pastor. However, if God is not first, then each of these relationships will never reach their potential, and that is really sad. Who does not want to experience love? Deep, faithful, mutual love with another person?

If I love Jesus first, then my love for others should improve. If Jesus is first, and all others are second; I will love them better because they are not first - - - Jesus is.

This is why we hear Jesus make comments to those who want to follow Him, ‘let the dead bury the dead.’ Or to the rich young ruler, ‘give away all you have and follow me.’ Jesus knows we calculate the cost of having a relationship with Him.

This should drive every decision you make, and they are not easy decisions. Your relationship with Christ will call you to do some things which are not easy. That’s the very nature of being a disciple.

I grew up in a family that believed in God. We were made to go to church. We went to Sunday school. At the age of 11 I was baptised. Yet the growth really happened later . . . but eventually in my 20's i came to get serious about my acceptance Jesus as Lord and Savior. It changed my life . . . dramatically. I was pretty self centered, it was all about me, then Jesus came into my life. My nature changed. I changed and became a different person. I became very active in the church. I was involved in the Men’s Ministry, Join the choir. That didn’t last long tho. Got on the trustee board became assistant treasurer of the church. I got serious about my relationship with Christ! How did in know? I was at Bible Class, Sunday School. Yes it was at Union Baptist Temple in Atlantic City NJ where my eyes were opened that the Price was right. I became a Saint!

This discovery indicates that discipleship is a phenomenon which demonstrates a close association with Jesus himself. I needed to be transformed by the renewing of my mind. I was willing to offer my body a living sacrifice. I was all in. That is what true discipleship indicates you are all in. Where my all in Christians at? When i let Christ in I started growing.

Deitrich Bonffener The Cost of Discipleship compels the reader to face himself and God in any situation. Bonhoeffer speaks of "Cheap Grace": preaching forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession. "Cheap Grace" is grace without discipleship. "Costly Grace" is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. "It's costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life."

Weder, H. (1992). Disciple, Discipleship. In D. N. Freedman (Ed.), D. Martin (Trans.), The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (Vol. 2, p. 207). New York: Doubleday.