Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Tarl Stanley for Tuesday, September 12th.

As Christians, our devotion shouldn't be to organizations or institutions, but to Jesus Christ Himself.

Part 2 of the Call to Be a Disciple Series helps you change how you respond to God and relate to others.

Would you turn please to Luke chapter 14 and we'll begin with verse 25 and read through the end of that chapter?

I hope before we finish discipleship that you will have memorized that passage of Scripture and Luke chapter 14.

Luke chapter 14, beginning in verse 26, he says,

If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters,

ye in his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And who severed up not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple?

For which of you intending to build a tower, sit if not down first and count at the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

Lest happily after he have laid the foundation and is not able to finish it all that behold it began to mock him saying.

This man began to build and was not able to finish.

Or what king going to make war against another king, sit if not down first and consult it, whether he be able with 10,000 to meet him that comes against him with 20,000.

Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an embessege and desireeth conditions of peace.

So likewise, who severed he be of you that forsakeeth not all that he have, he cannot be my disciple?

Salt is good, but if the salt have lost his saver, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the Dung Hill, but men cast it out, he that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

We defined a disciple, this one, who has accepted Jesus Christ as saviour, yielded to Jesus Christ as Lord, and one who is available to Jesus that he might reproduce his life through us in the life of someone else.

That discipleship is not optional in the life of the believer, therefore it is not optional in the life of the church.

Discipleship, that is, saved, yielded to him as Lord, it is, we are on the mandate to be vessels through whom the Lord Jesus Christ can continuously be discipling other people through us.

That is the mission and the minister of the church, and the only way you and I can accept and believe and know in our hearts that God is going to continue his blessing upon us is that when we discover spiritual truth, we obey what we know.

And the purpose of this series of messages is simply this, and that is that you and I would get that truth so deep into our soul, we can no longer see ourselves as we have seen ourselves before.

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