The Cost of Christ

Best Purchase

What is the best thing you purchased?

No air fryer jokes tho

Or maybe the question should be what is the best thing you got and what was the price?

a degree has a price, the time and effort and the student debt,

inheritance even has a unfortunate price,

we all pay one way or the other

and we see the best purchase in history as beign the death of the cross, where Jesus purchases the freedom of all from the bondage of Sin. The cost being his life, to which he dies and then is resurected.

The most powerful purchase there is is payed for with a life. Things we get come at a cost, let it be ours to pay or maybe anothers.

However we get to Luke 9 and Jesus speaks about he has a cost to follow him, and I am sure you have heard this before.

As I was reading Luke 9 there was so many different passages that I wanted to land on where it just speaks to what it really means to follow Jesus. So I split them up and landed on this peice. The other being Jesus saying take up your cross, these two passages say the same thing in two different ways.

Lets read the taking up of the Cross first:

Luke 9:23–27 NIV

Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self? Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.”

What stands out to you at the frist look

What does it mean to pick up the Cross?

Christ centred over self centred

How do you respond to verse 24?

What do you think Jesus means at the end of the passage?

A commentary said it’s actually impossible to know the intention since it’s only one line,

we can assume that his death and ressurection is it,

my idea is that it maybe the leading into the next passage, the transfiguration

Now on to the cost of following Jesus,

We know that Christ is saying you must die to follow him and truly he already is asking alot, but he asks even more as we read in Luke 9:57-62

Luke 9:57–62 NIV

As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” He said to another man, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family.” Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”

Truly there is so much more that we need to be ready to give up.

What do you think it means in verse 58?

What does it mean in verse 60?

How about vrese 62?

Why is the calling to never look back a bigger call then the call to die for him?