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Luke chapter 14 verse 26

if anyone comes to me

and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and

sisters yes and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

What a statement.

Now we've seen this language before earlier in Luke chapter 9 verse 23.

Jesus said if anyone comes to me.

So again this is introductory what it means to follow Jesus. He says he must hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters yes and even his own life.

Like what does that mean?

Like elsewhere in scripture we see honor your father and mother.

Like love your wife, lay down your life for your wife and your children and for brothers and sisters around you like love your family, love and brothers and sisters in Christ certainly

like love your family

so we see that in scripture so what is Jesus saying here then

and basically and this is a powerful picture Jesus is calling us

to love him so supremely now again this is what it means to be a follower of Jesus. This is like

introductory to love him so supremely that even our closest relationships in this world look like hate in comparison.

Do you love Jesus like that? Do I love Jesus like that? That even my relationship with my wife, like I love my wife so much, love my mom my dad but do I love Jesus in a way

that makes those relationships look like hate in comparison.

This is what Jesus said, this exact language Jesus used in Matthew chapter 10 in a similar passage where Jesus said whoever loves his father or mother more

than me is not worthy of me like this is the greatest commandment. Love God with all your heart and

all your soul and all your mind, all your strength. So today we're praying for

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