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Personal encounters
Life is full of of personal encounters, personal relationships and in our passage today Jesus is in one of the encounters speaking of counting the cost of being a disciple.
(insert picture personal encounters)
Jesus has just dealt with rich young ruler (MK10:17-22)
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Jesus has taught about kingdom and riches (MK10:23-27;Mt19:27-30)
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We can glean a little more information by bringing in the Matthew parallel passage here.
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Matthew brings in “what will be there for us” - still thinking materially and Jesus is speaking eternally
Matthew does though make reference to eternal thrones to those who follow Jesus, but what is the cost?
Today we are looking at:
Cost in relationships and in possessions
Rewards in eternal relationships and eternal possessions
Let’s take a look at the passage and a couple of questions
What do you see, what do you notice, what sticks out to you?
What did they leave (v.28)?
What is Jesus promise (v.30)?
Cost of Discipleship
Personal relationships are important aren’t they?
OK, so that is really a rhetorical question, but there is no more important relationship than that with Jesus Christ which is with Him and the Father who is in heaven.
Jesus is trying to help them understand the cost and the reward.
Relationships; there is, or can be a cost in earthly relationships
Jesus speaks of leaving family; some versions include “wife” while others do not (Mk10:29; Lk18:29; 1Cor9:5)
Luke is one version that mentions wife, not all the Mark versions do, some of the early versions do not include the wife.
But, giving up, leaving family, and wife, is not always necessary as we can see in
I am blessed to have my wife with me in my ministry work.
Sometimes we leave family or family leaves us because they are against us (Mt10:21; Mt10:35-36)
Sometimes we leave family or family leaves us because they are against us (Mt10:21)
Leaving family
Just a little later in Matthew Jesus speaks that he came to bring sword not peace, and that the sword (the Word of God) will divide families
God’s Word can turn
Mt10:35
Jesus, and the gospel, must come first, even before family (Mt10:37; Lk14:26)
Jesus, and the gospel, must come first, even before family (Mt10:37; Lk14:26)
Sometimes the greatest cost of being a disciple of Jesus is within your own family.
That now leads to cost regarding earthly possessions
Cost of discipleship: earthly possessions
Cost of house and lands (Mk10:29); and again not always the case (1Cor16:19; Rom16:3-5)
We already read Mk10:29, but all do not have the same cost and some did not have to give up all possessions
Why? in this case it was the possessions were going tobe used, were being used, would continue to be used for God’s purpose and glory.
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Rom16:5
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Many did offer, willingly their homes by selling (Act4:36-37) or opening doors for others (Philemon1:22); even look at Paul’s example, cost (Php3:7-8)
Many did offer, willingly their homes by selling (Act4:36-37) or opening doors for others (Philemon1:22); even look at Paul’s example, cost (Php3:7-8)
No one told Barnabas to sell his land, but it appears the Lord led him to do it.
Not from obligation but from revelation due to dedication.
Then there was the N.T. prophet room,similar to that in the O.T.
for great was the cost personally to Paul, but look at his attitude in it.
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Jesus and His kingdom must come before this world and its possessions (Lk14:33; Mt6:33)
Jesus and His kingdom must come before this world and its possessions (Lk14:33; Mt6:33)
Don’t let possessions posses you!
A disciple of Jesus is willing to give up all things for Him and to seek Him first
We must be willing to give up, forsake all things necessary to be a disciple of Jesus.
Each has his own cost, the cost is between you and the Lord.
We must be willing to give up, forsake all things necessary to be a disciple of Jesus.
Each has his own cost, the cost is between you and the Lord.
The cost of discipleship is great, for some it may seem greater than others, or more than others.
But for all, it needs to be willing to bear the cost so as to bear the rewards too of discipleship.
Rewards of eternal relations and possessions
Who does not love a good rewards program?
Especially if it does not cost you anything!
But how about eternal rewards of both eternal relations and eternal possessions, that is what we are looking at now as it relates to the cost and reward of discipleship.
Regarding eternal relationships
Jesus speaks of eternal relations
Jesus speaks of hundred fold (Mk10:30)
What is the time frame in this verse?
(present age) - expand on this that this was written for them then, what they were going to see, what they were going to receive.
The birth of the church on Pentecost (Act2:1-47) the multiplication of the church (Act12:24); it would also come in the age to come, church age, our age!
What were the things that would be 100 times?
(houses brothers, sisters, mothers, children and farms, as well as Persecutions
What kind of persecutions do you think Jesus is referring to? keep in mind who he is speaking to?
Eternal family (Mk3:31-35)
Notice Fathers missing (Mk10:30 and Mk3:31-35); but . . . .
we have eternal Father in heaven (Mt23:9)
Notice Fathers missing (Mk10:30 and Mk3:31-35); but . . . .
we have eternal Father in heaven (Mt23:9)
Eternal family, family of God (1Tim3:15)
Eternal family, family of God (1Tim3:15)
Jesus mentions houses, lands, farms too, may we consider these passages (Act4:32; Rom16:3-5)
No one considered what they had to be their own
Many even sold what they had for the common good (i.e.
Barnabas)
Others used what God gave them for the common good like this
They opened their hearts, opened their home for the church to meet.
Today there are great eternal rewards and relationships that we build as members of the church, the family of God.
That leads to
Eternal possessions:
again look at Mk10:30 and the time frame for eternal possessions
In the age to come for eternal possessions, eternal life (Mk10:30; Mt25:46)
Some will go to eternal punishment at the end, others to eternal life with God.
In the end as Paul puts it (Rom6:22-23)
Outcome eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord, can’t get much better than that can you?
Eternal possessions, eternal life for people of God (Rev21:3)
Eternal life for the people of God who will dwell with God and God with them!
Eternal possessions in our eternal home (Jn14:1-3)
In our heavenly home that Jesus spoke of that is ours because of our belief, our faith and knowing He keeps His promises
Eternal possessions in new heavens and new earth (2Pt3:13; Rev21:1)
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