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I. Intro
A. For quite a few weeks, we’ve been talking about disciples and discipleship.
1. We’ve spent a lot of time laying the groundwork for being a disciple.
B. We began by first defining What a Christian is.
1. Someone who has heard the Good News of Jesus Christ.
2. Someone who has believed the Good News.
3. Someone who turns from the path they’re on and turns to the Lord.
4. Someone who experiences the grace of God.
5. Someone who becomes a Disciple.
C. Then we took that last point and defined a Disciple.
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A Disciple is a Follower of Jesus Christ.
2. Being a Disciple requires self-denial.
3. Being a Disciple requires total commitment.
4. Being a Disciple requires complete obedience.
D. We talked about what the beginning of discipleship looks like.
1. Being called.
2. Laying down our nets.
3. Getting out of the boat.
4. Walking with Jesus.
E. Then we talked about a Disciple’s connection to Jesus.
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We are to keep our connection with Jesus.
2. We are to abide, stay, live, within that connection.
F. So we’ve done a lot of talking and looking at being a Disciple.
G.
So starting today, we’re going to see how we can put all this stuff into practice.
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How do we take all this foundational understanding about a disciple and make it practical.
2. Real things, real steps, we can take to become the Disciple Jesus wants us to be.
3. That’s where we’re headed.
I. To do that, we’re going to use a couple of verses we’ve already looked at over the past month or so.
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The first is Luke 9:23.
2. Read Luke 9:23
Jesus tells us if we want to follow Him, we have to DENY OURSELVES.
Being a Disciple means we deny ourselves for Jesus.
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This doesn’t mean we lose our identity.
2. It means we’re no longer our top priority.
3. Jesus is.
4. What we want no longer drives us.
5. Our world no longer centers on us and our wants.
So let’s get serious and ask ourselves some hard questions.
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Is Jesus number one (#1) in your life?
2. What do you need to do to make Him number one in your life?
3. What motivates you?
4. What motivates you to do what you do?
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If anything other than Jesus motivates you, Jesus is not your priority.
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Your life is not centered on Jesus.
7. What motivates us is what controls us.
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If we’re not motivated by Jesus and our love for Him, we’re not controlled by Him.
Probably all of us have a desire to be closer to Jesus.
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We want Him to be number one in our lives.
2. But we get distracted.
3. We get busy.
4. We don’t think about Jesus very often until He’s the only option.
So how do we break out of that cycle?
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How do we get to the point where Jesus is our natural first place to go?
Here it is,
THE KEY TO DISCIPLESHIP IS LORDSHIP.
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And that leads us to our second Bible verse of the day.
2. Read John 15:5
We can’t do anything worth doing without Jesus.
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So we need Him in everything.
2. So we have to make Him Lord—Ruler—King.
3. Every aspect of our lives, big or small, we make Jesus the Lord of it all.
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There is nothing, absolutely nothing, in our lives where Jesus is not Lord.
When Jesus is Lord, there are three things we’ll find in our lives.
A. Those three things are:
1. LOVE.
John 13:34–35
a. Read John 13:34–35
2. OBEDIENCE.
Luke 6:46
a. Read Luke 6:46
3. FRUIT.
John 15:8
a. Read John 15:8
Disciples have love, Disciples obey, and Disciples produce fruit.
1. Love produces obedience and obedience produces fruit.
2. Let’s take them one at a time.
Love - Love is action.
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When we love someone, the thing we find most is we want to be with that person.
2. To love Jesus, we have to spend time with Him.
3. What does that mean practically?
4. It means we devote some time each day to spend with the Lord.
5. We shut out everything else and totally give that time to God.
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We make this regular and consistent.
7. 15–30 minutes a day is reserved for the Lord.
How?
1. Make this time a priority.
2. Schedule a time.
When will it be for you?
3. Prepare for it.
Where will it be?
Put your Bible there tonight.
Have it ready for tomorrow.
4. Balance prayer and Bible reading.
5. Pray first.
6. Read consistently.
Don’t skip around.
Start in John 1.
A Chapter a day.
7. Have a notebook handy.
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