Today I'm renewing your mind. Are you serious about your faith?

Is it a consuming passion for you to serve Christ? If it isn't, you're just playing.

It's not the real thing. Jesus said, if that's the way it is, you just can't be my disciple.

I won't have it.

When we first come to Christ and Repeliver sins, a lifetime of discipleship and sanctification

follows, we begin to study to find out more about our Savior and we begin to discover that

suffering often attends the life of a Christian. That's when we stop and think, have we considered

the cost of the journey, have we considered the cost of discipleship? Here's our C-sprole

teaching from the gospel of Luke.

Well this morning we're going to continue with our study of the gospel according to Saint Luke.

It's Luke 14, 25 to 35 and I'll ask the congregation please to stand for the reading of the Word of God.

Now great multitudes went with him and he turned and said to them, if anyone comes to me and does

not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes and his own life also,

he cannot be my disciple and whoever does not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

For which of you intending to build a tower does not sit down first and count the cost,

whether he has enough to finish it, last after he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish,

all who see it begin to mock him saying this man began to build but was not able to finish.

Or what king going to make war against another king does not sit down first and consider whether

he is able with 10,000 to meet him who comes against him with 20,000 or else while the other is

still a great way off he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace so likewise whoever

if you does not forsake all that he has cannot be my disciple. Salt is good but if the salt has lost

its flavor how shall it be seasoned it's neither fit for the land nor for the downhill that men

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