Counting the Cost | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | November 16, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Won't you first sit down and estimate the cost? |
| 0:05.2 | Luke 1428. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:12.7 | Counting the cost was written and read by James Banks. |
| 0:21.2 | Luke chapter 14 verses 25 through 35. |
| 0:26.6 | Large crowds were traveling with Jesus and turning to them, he said, |
| 0:30.7 | if anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers |
| 0:37.3 | and sisters, yes, even their own life, |
| 0:41.5 | such a person cannot be my disciple. And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me |
| 0:48.6 | cannot be my disciple. Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Once you first sit down and estimate the cost |
| 0:57.6 | to see if you have enough money to complete it. For if you lay the foundation and are not able to |
| 1:03.7 | finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, saying this person began to build and wasn't able to finish. |
| 1:12.5 | Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. |
| 1:17.0 | Won't he first sit down and consider whether he is able with 10,000 men to oppose the one |
| 1:23.2 | coming against him with 20,000? |
| 1:25.7 | If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other |
| 1:29.9 | is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. In the same way, those of you who do not |
| 1:38.3 | give up everything you have cannot be my disciples. |
| 1:51.0 | Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? |
| 1:56.0 | It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. |
| 1:57.9 | It is thrown out. |
| 2:03.0 | Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear. |
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