People are fickle, and you see that with celebrities and movie stars and athletes.

You know, one minute they're great, next minute they're hated, then they're great again.

But what's interesting about that is that's kind of the thing with Jesus.

Jesus in Luke's gospel, you kind of see it as well as just about any of the four

Gospels. Jesus is gaining in popularity up to this point in our study of Luke. The multitudes

are coming, you know, by the droves, wanting to see Jesus and hang out with Jesus. But it's chapter 9 where we're going to

start to see a change in that. People are going to be a little turned off by some of the things

that he says, some of the notions that would sort of count costs. Like if you're going to follow

Jesus, he's going to tell you stuff that we're like we even looked at on Sunday. You need to

deny yourself, take up your

cross and follow him uh that wouldn't be a popular message one of the things we have to be careful

of is what's the popular message versus what is true um because jesus would say things that were only true

but not everything he said was popular um that's something for us to kind of tuck away

and keep in mind, because I've noticed our world likes to go with what is popular, and we go with the

trend. But as Bible students, we should always say, we don't care about what's popular. We care about

what's biblical and what is true. Jesus is going to start

speaking true things that turn people off. And it's really, from this point forward, we start

to see the journey to Jerusalem where Jesus would be crucified, and it starts to get more

kind of, I guess you might say, negative by the people's response in some ways from Luke

chapter 9 and onwards. So, you know, the honeymoon sort of, if you would, is over. All the

miracles Jesus has been doing, they're not going to produce real faith. We've seen that as a theme

throughout the story. So let's pick it up. Chapter 9, verse 1. Then he called his 12

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