#1,091 – Loving Jesus Supremely (Luke 14:26)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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We pray today for our brothers and sisters throughout the world for whom the cost of following Jesus is severe. Lord, we ask for grace to love You more than we love our own lives. Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:04.7	Luke chapter 14, verse 26,
0:07.5	If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters,
0:19.9	yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
0:27.1	What a statement.
0:29.8	Now we've seen this language before earlier in Luke chapter 9, verse 23.
0:35.2	Jesus said, if anyone comes to me.
0:42.7	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,
0:51.0	yes, and even his own life. Like, what does that mean?
0:54.6	Like, elsewhere in scripture we see honor your father and mother.
0:59.9	Like, love your wife.
1:01.3	Lay down your life for your wife and your children and for brothers and sisters around
1:07.6	you.
1:07.7	Like, love your family.
1:10.5	Love brothers and sisters in Christ, certainly.
1:14.7	Like love your family. So we see that in Scripture. So what is Jesus saying here then?
1:21.8	And basically, and this is a powerful picture, Jesus is calling us to love him so supremely.
1:31.5	Now again, this is what it means to be a follower of Jesus.
1:34.6	This is like introductory to love him so supremely that even our closest relationships
1:43.1	in this world look like hate in comparison.
1:50.3	Do you love Jesus like that?
1:54.9	Do I love Jesus like that?
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