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It Cost Everything
but, the gain is infinitely greater than the cost!
We live in a time where costs are at the forefront of all of our minds.
The cost of gas.
The cost of medications and groceries.
There are rising home prices, rising interest rates, and utility costs to just name a few.
This causes most of us to take a step back and make some assessments of our current budgets and then make adjustments accordingly.
Counting the costs is nothing new to most if not all of us.
But, how does this relate to our message this morning?
I want us to focus for the next few minutes on the cost of discipleship and the cost of our salvation.
This passage, although it is technically not our key scripture this morning, is meant to provide us a foundation on which to build.
In looking at the costs of both our salvation and discipleship we clearly see elements of our salvation and of our discipleship in this passage and I want to make an initial point about each one.
We can not and do not save ourselves.
Salvation is a free gift from God through faith in His son Jesus Christ.
It is not an effort or a work of ourselves but a supernatural miracle by God through the hearing of His gospel message.
Ephesians 2:8-9
Being a true, obedient follower of Christ is a result of our salvation not the cause of it.
2. Our discipleship, although not fully, is dependent on our own efforts.
We are to make every effort not to be conformed to this world.
We are to be sober-minded and thoughtful in all things.
Jesus is telling us what it costs to be one of His disciples.
I hate to say it but there are many people in the world today, many even in a worship service at this very moment who are disciples of Christ in name only.
Because of this, for some of us, there may even be a hesitation before we label our self a Christian.
Why? Aren’t Christians set apart from the world?
Jesus gives the answer in this passage.
There are those who do not first count the cost of following Him.
You may make it for a while but when things get tough we are in danger of falling away apart from Jesus.
Example: Judas Iscariot
So do not place your faith and hope in your discipleship and do not lean on your own understanding.
Place your faith and hope in Christ and Christ alone first, then you are made a new creation that can fully count and comprehend the cost of following Jesus.
Our main scripture this morning is from the book of Matthew and it just a single verse.
Imagine your walking through a field.
Or, you are working a field when you stub your toe on something.
You think it’s a rock.
You weren’t even looking for it you just stumbled upon it.
It is a chest full of jewels and gold and silver.
It is full of treasure that is infinitely greater than anything you have ever seen.
You must buy the field to obtain ownership of the chest.
But it cost you everything.
So how much does it cost to follow Jesus.
It Costs Everything!
As this message is coming to a close, I want to start answering the question Daniel left us with last Sunday.
How many of you remember the “to be continued?”
Daniel asked, What did it cost?
What did it cost Jesus Christ for the redemption and salvation of His church?
Jesus Christ counted the cost and He paid it anyway and in full!
What an amazing display of love.
Sometimes we don’t truly understand what love is.
We think we know but I want to remind you and I most certainly need to be reminded!
Love supersedes everything.
It is not a feeling or butterflies.
It is the very nature of God.
This love is best shown in
So Christ left His heavenly place, born of a virgin as a baby in a manger, lived a sinless life although He experienced all manner of temptation, pain, heartbreak, abandonment, and loss.
He was rejected by His own.
Mocked, ridiculed, spat upon, and beaten beyond recognition.
He was nailed to a tree for you and for me.
Our Lord and Saviour is truly a suffering God.
A God who compelled by love, which is His very nature and character, offered up Himself for us.
He is Emmanuel, God with us.
And so,
So, what did our significance, our sufficiency, our security, and our salvation cost Christ?
It Cost Everything
but, the gain WAS infinitely greater than the cost.
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