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Luke chapter 9, verse 62.

Jesus said to him,

No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.

Oh, this is the last verse of a section here from verses 57 to 62, where three people come up to

Jesus along the road and are basically saying, I'll follow you.

And Jesus looks back at them, all three of them, and says, here's what it's going to cost to follow me.

And the implication is basically that Jesus talked to them out of following him because of what it would cost.

And this last one, verse 61, said, I'll follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home and jesus said to him

no one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of god the picture here is

basically jesus saying if you're going to follow me, you've got to be all in.

There's no room here for half-hearted devotion, for following Jesus as Lord and anyone or anything else in this world as Lord also.

And this is so important.

Sometimes we can, in our desire to lead people, to trust in Jesus,

kind of dumb down the gospel and make it as palatable an invitation as possible.

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