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True Discipleship
The Summer of 2006 was an Exciting summer for me.
It was the summer that Corrie and I got married.
Father’s Day Weekend.
But more importantly than that…It was the Summer the Dallas Mavericks made it to the NBA Finals.
To Be honest with you, I don’t care much about basketball.
But you better believe that I was watching the Dallas Mavericks- Miami Heat battle it out on my Honeymoon.
And I wasn’t the only one.
We lived in Dallas-Fort Worth at the time and I had never seen so many Maverick Jerseys in my life.
Everyone and their mother was wearing a Jersey and cheering on the Mavericks.
Then on June 20, 2006 the Dallas Mavericks lost in Game Six of the Finals.
And it was a bummer.
And that bummer lasted approximately 24 hours for me.
Why?
Because I didn’t really care about the sport.
The Team or even the Championship.
There is a term for this kind of sports fan.
Well, there are a couple, but we are in church so we won’t say all of them.
They are either called Fair-Weather Fans or Bandwagon Fans.
A wannabe fan.
These type of fans aren’t committed to the team, but only to the winning.
Here’s the connection to this morning’s text.
There are those that say they want Jesus, but they aren’t committed to him.
They want things from God, but they don’t want God.
And this morning we are going to see the difference between a true disciple of Jesus and a Bandwagon Follower of Jesus.
A wannabe Disciple.
Let’s Pray.
False Disciples
Just for a quick recap of what’s happening.
Jesus recently fed a multitude of people.
He was then followed by a crowd that wanted more from him.
He then starts teaching them the truth that he is more concerned with saving their souls than he is with filling their bellies.
Jesus fed them with bread but then started teaching them the truths about himself.
That he was going to die.
And that his followers would have to be able to partake in that same kind of self-mortification if they wanted to follow him.
And those following him said John 6.60 “60 Therefore, when many of his disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard.
Who can accept it?””
The word for hard here does not mean difficult to understand.
Rather it means harsh or offensive.
To them the teaching Jesus was giving them was offensive to their hearts and to their ears.
So what was it they wanted from Jesus?
What these people wanted from Jesus wasn’t Jesus himself, but what they thought Jesus could do for them.
From the previous section we can tell that they wanted:
To be fed by him.
They wanted bread.
Jn 6:26 “26 Jesus answered, “Truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.”
They wanted him to be king.
John 6:14-15 “14 When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, “This truly is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
15 Therefore, when Jesus realized that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain by himself.”
They wanted more miracles
John 6:30-31 “30 “What sign, then, are you going to do so that we may see and believe you?” they asked.
“What are you going to perform? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.””
They liked Jesus as an option.
But Jesus told them that he isn’t an option he is the only option.
And they thought that this teaching was too harsh.
Jesus knew their hearts.
He knew their thoughts and he heard their complaints.
Just like the Jews that opposed Jesus in the Synagogue these disciples grumbled about what Jesus was saying.
And naturally as Jesus Does he asks them if they are offended by his statements.
What was offensive about his statements.
Most likely the whole eating flesh and drinking blood.
But also that Jesus came down from Heaven.
Why else would he ask them about watching him ascend to where he was before?
But here’s the thing the only way Jesus is going to ascend back to where he was is for him to descend first.
He was going to have to die.
He was going to have to sacrifice himself.
He was going to have to submit in humility and obedience to death.
And here’s what’s hard and offensive.
As Jesus’ disciples they would have had to do the same thing.
The Gospel of John is keen on this point.
If you want to Follow Jesus.
If you want to be his disciple.
You have to live like him.
You have to follow him where he goes.
And he always leads into a place of humility and obedience.
And this kind of discipleship and desire to follow Jesus where ever he may go can only be put in us by God.
We can only have this desire if the Spirit of God gives it to us.
Listen to what Jesus says, John 6:63-65 “63 The Spirit is the one who gives life.
The flesh doesn’t help at all.
The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
64 But there are some among you who don’t believe.”
(For Jesus knew from the beginning those who did not believe and the one who would betray him.)
65 He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted to him by the Father.””
The Spirit makes us alive.
The Spirit transforms us.
The Spirit gives us the desire to follow Jesus.
We can’t do it in the flesh.
And sadly there are many people who try to.
There are many who play Christian.
They pretend.
They try to do it in their own power.
And when they do…it ends in disaster.
Not everyone who calls themselves a Christian is actually a christian.
Not everyone in this crowd that is called a disciple is a true disciples.
Jesus even warned us of this truth in Matthew
Matt 13:1-9 “1 On that day Jesus went out of the house and was sitting by the sea. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, while the whole crowd stood on the shore.
3 Then he told them many things in parables, saying, “Consider the sower who went out to sow. 4 As he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.
5 Other seed fell on rocky ground where it didn’t have much soil, and it grew up quickly since the soil wasn’t deep.
6 But when the sun came up, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away.
7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it.
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