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The Call to Discipleship 0:00 Alright. Let me go ahead and pray, and then we have a word for you guys tonight. So bow your heads, close your eyes. Father God, have your way. Holy Spirit, speak to us. May we draw near to you through your word. May you0:11 give us ears to hear and hearts to receive. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. May you stand as we read our passage for tonight. We're gonna be in Mark chapter 9 verses 300:23 to 50, but we're gonna read just a hand select a few verses here. Mark 9 verse 30 says here, they went on from there and passed through Galilee and he did not want anyone to know.0:36 For he was teaching his disciples saying to them, the son of man is going to be delivered into the hands of man and they will kill him. And when he is killed after 3 days, he will rise.0:47 Verse 32, but then they did not understand the saying and were afraid to ask him. And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house, he asked him, what were you discussing on the0:59 way? But they kept silent for on the way they had argued with 1 another about who was the greatest. John said to him, teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your1:11 name and we tried to stop him because he was not following us. Mighty work in my name will be able soon afterward to1:23 speak evil of me. Whoever causes 1 of these little ones in verse 42, who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great milestone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into1:35 the sea. Last verse, verse 50 says this, salt is good, but if salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again, have salt in yourselves, and be1:47 at peace with 1 another? You may be seated. If you're taking notes tonight, we'll jump right into it. I titled tonight's message, the call to discipleships, and I'm gonna give you the1:58 4 points up front. If you're taking notes, the 4 points are this, the difficulty in verses 30 to 32, the display in verses 33 to 37, the dispute in verses2:10 38 to 41, and then demonstration in verses 42 to 50. As we pick up back in the book of Mark chapter 9, we are still in this afterglow of the2:22 transfiguration. Peter, John, and James experienced this this divine glory of the father and they hear his voice, but when they come down from the mountain,2:34 they did what Moses did and they found a crowd of unbelief. And this crowd includes Jewish scribes. It includes the disciples, and it includes a2:46 demon possessed boy and his father who cries out, I believe help my unbelief. So we saw that Jesus then cast out this2:57 demon and declares that some spirit can only come forth by prayer and fasting. That was how verse 29 ended that seed. Now we3:09 pick up in verse 30, chapter 9 verse 30 to 50, and we are basically in a halfway mark of the book of Mark. Mark has 16 chapters, so this3:21 is kind of like the halfway point. We are in the middle of a discourse on discipleship, and we now receive some private instructions on on how to live according to what3:33 Jesus is teaching here. We are no longer outside with the crowds. We are now in a house back in Capernaum, their home base. So this section is kind of a coach's huddle3:45 to review the game film and prepare them for what's next. The disciples are supposed to be teammates. They're supposed to be a team, but with any team there can be the3:57 temptation to fight for position, to compete, to make comparisons about who is better at what, and to try to show oneself by deserving the best and most4:09 prominent role. We live in Southern California. I don't know if you remember back in 2003, 2004, probably 1 of the greatest splits in NBA landscape when Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant4:21 decided to split. What happened? Pride got in the way and they eventually lost in the finals. They could have kept winning championship after championship. You see, everyone wants to be the star,4:33 and everyone wants to desire that glory that comes with making the winning shot or scoring the last goal or hitting the home run and being the brightest above our peers, and it is4:45 this aspiration for superiority that Jesus wants to refocus and reshape with the 12 disciples. Jesus teaches them the4:57 meaning of being a true disciple. Look at verse, 30 through 32. This is the difficulty that we get here, and it says this. They went on from there, passed through5:09 Galilee, and he did not want anyone to know. This is his private ministry. We have his public ministry, but now this is his private ministry. For he was teaching his disciples saying to5:20 them, the son of man is going to be delivered into the hands of man, and they will kill him. And when he is killed after 3 days, he will rise. Verse 32, but they did not understand the saying5:32 and were afraid to ask him. Jesus again foretells his death, his prediction of what is to come, the resurrection. So this is the second5:44 passion prediction. The passion refers to the events leading up to the death of Christ. So this story is part of an extended story and teaching on discipleship5:56 that runs from chapter 8 to chapter 10 in which Jesus repeats this passion prediction 3 times. In chapter 8 verse 31, and this chapter, chapter 96:08 verse 31, and chapter 10 verse 32 to 34. The first passion prediction, Jesus had taught his disciples not only that he would suffer, die,6:20 and rise, but also that they must imitate him by losing their life in order to save them. The second passion prediction in which we get our text, Jesus makes it6:32 very clear that this pattern of discipleship means service to other people. In other words, following Jesus is not something a person does alone.6:44 It takes a village, And so Jesus continues to tell his disciples this message in verse 31. And notice that nothing had changed. Nothing took place in6:56 the hearts of the disciples. And we picked up in verse 32. We read that the disciples still do not understand what Jesus is saying and were too afraid to ask him. That7:08 was the difficulty for them. So Mark continues to highlight the spiritual dullness of the disciples. What Jesus is saying still does not make sense to the disciples,7:20 but worse than all of these things, the disciples were too afraid to ask him. They were too scared. And when you when you read in this gospel, specifically, we see that7:31 fear has shown to be a problem. Notice what Mark 4 40 says. Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith? We saw that fear left to itself7:44 prohibits faith. Mark 5 36 says, do not fear only believe. Fear is supposed to lead to faith. So we see that fear is a problem in this7:56 gospel. Rather than fear causing the disciples to ask questions for further understanding, the disciples fear kept them from further understanding. See, the8:08 call of discipleship requires us to understand 2 things. If you're taking notes, write this down. Pride and humility. Learning to be humble is finding8:19 and understanding sanctification. What is sanctification? This is what it means to be a Christian. Sanctification means I'm being more and more like Jesus8:31 and less and less like this world. Sanctification means I'm being more and more like Jesus and less and less like myself. Sanctification means I'm being more and more like8:43 Jesus. I'm being less and less like sin. To be made set. Set apart. You see the bible gives us examples of humility.8:55 In in Psalms 25 verse 9, God guides and teaches those who are humble. Proverbs 3 34, God mocks the proud, but gives grace to the humble.9:07 Proverbs 11 2, with humility comes wisdom. Micah 6 8, God is looking for humble people. Matthew 18 4, the greatest in heaven9:19 is a person who humbles himself like children. First Peter 5 6, God lifts up those who humble themselves. You see the9:30 disciples needed to learn humility because of their pride. They needed it because they had a messianic triumphal experience with the transfiguration. And9:42 so they were expecting the Messiah to enter this glory. They're expecting him to do something. They were they were trying to enter this glory with him. They were excited about this glory. They wanted9:55 the exaltation. The disciples needed to be checked, but also because they had terrible examples of spirituality. If you know in the New Testament, they had grown up with10:07 Judaism, which focuses on spiritual pride. The spiritual leaders often exalted themselves above the people. And if even if you go to Israel today, they10:19 wore this thing called teflin which is a black leather and what they often would do is they would recite verses, the Shamai Israel Adonai Elohunu Akkad, and they would say this10:31 repeatedly over and over to signify their spiritualness. To let people know that, hey, I'm I'm doing something for God and they often will wear these robes. They would often10:42 give money into the temple by hiring a trumpeter to blow a trumpet to let them know that they're getting ready to give money. They wanted to be appear humble. They wanted10:54 to appear like they were doing something. They even threw ash on their face and sat in public places. They wanted people to know how diligent they were and what they were wearing and what they were11:06 saying. See, these were the spiritual models. You gotta remember, they didn't have a church. There were no alternatives. So for Peter, James, and John, they saw just11:18 that, The the the rabbinical teaching of what it is to be a Pharisee or religious leader, the scribe, they all wanted to exalt themselves. Consider11:30 the examples of the eye trouble in the bible. Cain, who murdered his brother because of envy. What is envy but a quest to be great? Or maybe the11:41 tower of Babel was an attempt to what? To exalt humanity over God's commandments. Or Lot who sought to be greater in riches than his uncle11:53 Abraham. Or Pharaoh who hardened his heart because he thought he was greater than Yahweh. Or Saul who became plagued with this murderous envy because he12:05 was not viewed as greater than David. Uzziah, who'd make the sinful mistake of assuming that he was greater than the priesthood and would be struck down by God with12:17 leprosy. Or even King Nebuchadnezzar. We know his story, an infamous example of 1 who thought he was the greatest but went through a humiliation process and God humbled12:29 him real quick. Even in the New Testament, we get Herod who sensed his potential threat of another king. So what does he do? He kills all the babies because he wants to what? Protect12:41 his dominion, protect his greatness. The religious leaders driven by the pursuit of their own greatness, motivated by this pursuit of I wanna be number 112:53 would murder the 1 who was truly the greatest, Jesus Christ. That's the background experience that these disciples are going through and caught up13:05 in all of this. He was the Messiah and God had chosen these disciples to follow me, elevated their pride and made13:17 it difficult for them to be humble. The disciples, Jesus is 12. The ones, they were so caught up with pride as you just read that they13:29 were arguing about which is the greatest. Who's the greatest in this kingdom? The difficulty. The display. Point number 2. Notice verse 33 to 37.13:41 It says this, and they came to Capernaum. And when he was in a house, he asked him, what were you discussing on the way? But they kept silent, for on the way, they had argued with13:52 1 another about who was the greatest. And he sat down and called the 12. And he said to them, if anyone would be first, he must be last of all and a servant of all. And he14:04 took a child and he put him in the midst of them. And taking him in his arms, he said to them, whoever receives 1 such child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives14:16 me receives not me, but him who sent me. Context. Right? They're moving in the direction of Jerusalem and they're going to Capernaum and they're going to Judea and they're14:28 eventually being Jerusalem in chapter 10, but before he does that, Jesus spends some quality time with his disciples. Some private 1 on 1, some team building, some team huddle. So14:40 this is his private ministry, and so he spends time with them prepping them for the future. So they're in this house and they're confronted by Jesus. Jesus says what? What were you14:52 discussing on the way? And what did they say? They had been walking a long time and on the way they had this this this this this discussion and they didn't want to admit that they were talking about15:04 their ambitious and their self seeking and their highly competitiveness. Why? Because they were struggling with this idea that I'm the greatest, but I gotta know it all. And we get 315:15 implications from the text. Notice verse 33 to 34. The first implication is the display of pride destroys unity.15:27 Destroys unity. He says to them, what were you discussing on the way? And what was their response? They kept silent. They didn't know how to respond. Why were they why were15:39 they silent? Because they were embarrassed and they were scared and they were ashamed. They were silent because they had been discussing with 1 another who was the greatest. Jesus just talked about his15:51 own humiliation, and all they can think about is their greatness. See, pride kills unity because pride is critical.16:03 Pride is judgmental. Pride is comparative. Pride is self seeking. You know the story in John chapter 13 verse 35 where Jesus is in the upper room with his disciples and he tells them by16:14 this, Note note this, people would know you that you are my disciples by what? By your love for 1 another. Having just16:26 washed their feet, Jesus told them to humble yourself. Take note. You want a unified church? It begins with humbling yourself. You want a16:38 unified company? It begins with humbling yourself. You want a unified marriage? It begins with humbling yourself. You want a unified family? It begins by humbling yourself.16:51 Only humble people love, and there is no unity apart from humility. You see, the unity of God's people is a critical reality for the testimony of17:03 the gospel. That's how people will know. When you step out in the highways and the byways, when you're at school, when you're at work, they gotta know by your love.17:15 The display of pride destroys unity. Look at the second implication in verse 40 35. The display of pride not only destroys unity, but it17:27 drops honor. He says this in verse 35. He sat down and called the 12 and he said to them, if anyone would be first, he must be what? The last of all and a servant of17:39 all. It not only kills pride, but it loses honor. That's what Jesus is saying here because prideful people, they wanna battle for position. They wanna battle for self17:51 promotion. They wanna battle for self elevation. So what does Jesus do? I love I love his the way he he does things. He's he takes a rabbinical teaching position by what?18:03 By sitting down. He sits down with them. So you wanna be first? You want honor? You want promotion? You want position? You're thinking about being first. You think the path to being first is to18:14 save yourself or to elevate yourself, the way to be first is to humble yourself because pride will lose the very thing that you perceive you want. That's what pride would18:26 do. It drops honor. It loses honor. Jesus often got on the religious leaders because what? They love to be elevated and they love what?18:38 They love honor. They love recognition with the robes and the tifflins and the trumpeters. The greatest example of humility is who? It's Jesus. You see, the son of man didn't come18:50 to be served, but to serve and give his life a ransom for many. It's all about serving. If you wanna be great,19:02 find a path to being last. That's what Jesus is saying here. And what does it mean to be last? It means it means this, a servant of everybody and a servant of all. Pride19:14 will lose that. Pride will lose honor. You find true honor when you're willing to be last, not when you have to be first. The difficulty,19:27 the display, the display of pride destroys unity. The display of pride drops honor. And third, the display of pride in verse 36 to 37 denies19:39 Jesus. Notice what it says here. And he took a child and he put them in the midst of them. And taking him in his arms, he said to him, whoever receives 1 such child19:51 in my name receives me and whoever receives me receives me not but him who sent me. Jesus here gives us an objective lesson, a visualization, a picture of20:03 what humility looks like. A child. That's what Jesus is doing here. We need to have this right culture view to understand this message because if we if we if we see20:15 the perspective of how we see it, we see our culture, the western culture views children as innocent, vulnerable, gentle, and pure, but this is not the way they viewed20:26 it. This is not the ancient near eastern view of what children is for them. In their world, children were considered insignificant without social status.20:39 That's what they were known for. Children couldn't offer anything back. They couldn't give anything back to you. So doing something for a child meant you were not going to get anything in return. And because of20:50 that, to welcome a child in that society was to break social norms. It was it it meant to lower yourself to their standard. It meant to lower yourself to21:02 accept another lower status than you, therefore risking your own power, prestige, position, and status. Welcoming this child is an illustration21:14 of what it looks like to make yourself last of all people and a servant of all people. So Jesus is painting for us. Why? Because a child has no21:26 power, they have no achievement, they have no accomplishment, they got 0 status, they have no greatness. A child is weak, dependent,21:38 ignored, and has nothing to offer. What is Jesus saying here? When a Christian comes to you, Christ comes to you. That's what he's saying here. How you treat another believer21:50 is how you treat Christ. That's what he's saying here. Because because pride destroys unity, pride drops honor, pride denies Jesus. So how you treat other22:01 people. That's what he's saying here. A profound lesson Jesus is teaching us. Here, you're stepping on each other's neck. Here, you're trying to promote yourself above each other. Here, you're trying to you're22:13 trying to do all this thing to to to elevate yourself. And instead of opening your arms to become a servant of all, like a child, you're worried about who's the greatest?22:25 You see, how you treat other Christians is how you treat him because Christ comes to you and his children. That's what Jesus is saying here. Christ comes to us and every other22:37 believer. And the bottom line is this, you better be careful how you treat other believers. Because how you treat someone else,22:49 you're denying Jesus. That's what he's saying here. You've got to change the way you think. Instead of thinking you're better than everybody else, you've got to become the servant of everybody else and realize that23:01 every other believer is a child of God. That's what he's saying here. The difficulty, the display of pride destroys unity. The display of pride23:13 drops honor. The display of pride denies Jesus. Third, the dispute. Notice verse 38 to 41. It says here, John said to23:24 them, teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name. We tried to stop him because he was not following us, but Jesus said, do not stop him for no 1 who23:36 does a mighty work in my name will soon, will be able soon afterwards to speak evil of me. For the 1 who is not against us is for us. For truly23:48 I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward. So here John is in the picture23:59 and he tells Jesus they they saw someone cast out a demon in the name of Jesus, and they tried to stop him because he was not following him. But if you recall in Luke24:11 chapter 10, Jesus the Jesus ordained 70 people to go 2 by 2. So it wasn't just the 12, but it was the 70 and more. And so24:23 the disciples were trying to hinder the work of God because he wasn't part of the group. And so Jesus says don't hinder them. Jesus reminds them24:35 about about the diversity of the kingdom of God. Right? They're either for us or against us, and if they're for us, they're for us. They aren't competitors. They aren't competition.24:47 What Jesus is essentially saying here is this, stop competing even with people who are outside of your group. Then Jesus says this, humility will get you far.25:00 It will get you where you need to go because humility gains blessings. Humility gains rewards. Humility gains favor. Look at verse 41. For truly I say to you, whoever gives a cup of water to drink, an act25:12 of humility because you belong to Christ, will by no means lose his reward. The disciples were thinking of this, greatness equals reward.25:24 But Jesus is saying here, it's not about greatness in your perspective because pride wasn't going to get them that humility, humility would.25:37 It looks like this. You go you give a cup of water to drink to someone who belongs to Christ. That's humility. It's the sacrificial way of bearing the name of Jesus25:49 that you go out of your way. Whichever 1 of you goes above and beyond to give a cup of cold water for the sake of Jesus, you won't lose your reward.26:04 Because the fear was this, if I end up at the bottom, I'm going to lose my reward. I'm going to lose the pride. You see the simple act of sacrificial kindness to 1 who belongs to Jesus26:16 will result in what you will never achieve by elevating yourself. You won't lose your award. You you actually gain it.26:28 That's what Philippians chapter 2 says. Turn with me there real quick. It says here in Philippians chapter 2 verse 1 through 4, so if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any26:40 participation in the spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, same love, being in full accord in 1 mind, do nothing26:51 from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility. Count others more significant than yourself. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to27:03 the interests of others. That's a call to humility, and that's the model we get. If you go down to the next verse, it says this, have this mind among yourselves,27:15 which is yours in who? He's the model. He's the example that we follow. Did he lose his reward by becoming last? No. What27:27 happened? Look at verse 9. Therefore, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name.27:38 God gives grace to those who humble themselves. God exalts Jesus. God gives grace to the humble, and God will exalt you if27:50 you walk in humility. The difficulty, the display, the dispute, and as we close, the28:02 demonstration versus 42 to 50. It says here, whoever causes 1 of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were28:13 hung around his neck and he were thrown into sea. Verse 43. And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to end it. And in life crippled and with 2 hands to go to hell to the quenchable fire.28:25 Verse 45, and if your foot cause you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with 2 feet to be thrown into fire, into hell. Verse 47. If your eye causes you to sin,28:37 tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with 1 eye than with 2 eyes to be drawn in to to be thrown into hell. Where their warmth does not die and the fire is not quenched,28:49 for everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good, but if salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves and be at peace with29:00 1 another. This is probably 1 of the great realities of scripture. Reading this specific text, there's there's a lot of things going on here. And29:12 so 1 of the things that we want to do is preserve the text from its original language, from Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic. And so what's happening here is that you'll notice verse29:23 44 and 46 are left out. And if you have a newer translation like the NAS, the New American Standard, the RSV Revised Standard, the NASB,29:35 or or the the NIV or the NLT, any newer translation, you see brackets around them. That is because the earlier manuscripts, these 2 statements29:47 did not occur. However, the statement in verse 44 and 46 is found in verse 48. So we assume this, that the scribes saw29:59 the urgency of this and just piled it all together, and that's what it is. And so the demonstration here in this section is very unique because what what Jesus uses30:11 here, and Mark specifically, is it's full of graphic terminology. It's full of severe warning and violent threats. What is this passage talking about?30:23 It's talking about radical discipleship. That if you are real about it, you will do some real things about it. It's it's it's called for radical behavior, and we30:35 see 3 demonstrations of this radical discipleship. The a demonstration of humility leads to devotion. In other words, the call of30:46 discipleship demonstrates love. Notice verse 42, whoever causes 1 of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were30:58 hung around his neck and he was thrown into the sea. Jesus is talking about love for other believers. That's what he's saying here. He warns us in this verse that before you31:10 lead another believer to sin, you would be better off to die a horrible death. That's what he's saying here. Very graphic. This verse is built on the principle31:22 of what? Verse 37. You guys remember verse 37 where it says here, whoever receives 1 child in my name receives me,31:34 and whoever receives me receives not me, but him who sent me. That's what he's describing here. How you treat a Christian and believer is how you treat Christ, because how you31:45 treat Christ is how you treat God. That's what he's saying in verse 42. It's a kind of love that works very hard never to be a source of sinfulness to another Christian.31:57 That's what he's saying here. Love doesn't solicit sin. That's what he's saying here. A demonstration of humility leads to32:09 devotion. Second demonstration of radical discipleship is this, a demonstration of humility leads to decency or purity. Notice verse32:21 43 to 47. We're gonna look at 43, 45, and 47. It says in, if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with 2 hands to go to hell to the quenchable fire. And verse and32:32 if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with 2 feet to be drawn into hell. Verse 47. If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to32:44 enter the kingdom of God with 1 eye than with 2 eyes. You're never going to be able to lead someone else into righteousness if you're not righteous yourself. That's what he's saying here. That's what he's32:56 saying. How can you ask people to go deep with God when you ain't going deep with God? How you gonna ask someone to read the Bible if you ain't reading the Bible? I remind myself every time33:08 I'm hanging out with these, with, with these high schoolers, 11 to 18 year olds, I'm like, I gotta get deeper with God. Because if I'm requiring them to read, I gotta get in tune with God. You're never going to be able33:19 to lead someone else into righteousness if you're not righteous yourself. If your heart is impure, you will lead others to sin. That's what he's saying here. Jesus is talking about radical33:31 severe action against any and all sin. And body parts are mentioned here. The hands, the feet, and the eyes, these are pretense verbs33:43 which emphasize the continual struggle with temptation and sin. An amputation here is radical. That's what he's saying. It's an action33:55 against anything that stands in a way of holiness, anything that stands in a way of righteousness, anything that stands in a way of purity. Obviously, he's not talking about physical mutilation, but he's talking34:07 about metaphor mutilation. What is he saying? Deal seriously with sin. And I love what John Owen34:19 says, 1 of the greatest Puritans. He says, kill sin or sin will kill you. That's what he's saying here. So the results of not doing this is34:31 what? What's the result? Hell, that's the result. Very radical. Right? You're like, man, Mark, like Jesus was doing his thing. Because34:43 hell was mentioned how many times? 3 times in verse 30 43, 45, 47 because hell is at stake here. That's what he's saying. Probably 1 of the strongest34:55 language Jesus gives throughout all of the bible is this specific verse. Because he wants you to know that hell is real and that it takes a35:07 radical approach with a radical behavior and radical mindset to be a radical disciple of Jesus. And once we run from sin towards righteousness and35:18 embrace the savior, the only 1 who can save us from sin and grant us that righteousness. Until we do that, we haven't even begun to be a disciple of Jesus.35:31 It takes a radical approach. Close with this call of discipleship demonstrates devotion, decency, and the third dedication. Notice verse 48 to 50, it says, where the worm35:43 does, die and the fire does not quench. For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves and be at peace with 135:55 another. There's a lot to go into in this specific portion, but what he's saying here is this, Ezra 6 9 is probably the verse he is referring to because the salt that was often36:06 stored up before sacrifices was combined with fire. Because sacrifices were burned and these sacrifices had salt. And so salt36:18 wasn't was added to sacrifices as a symbol of God's enduring covenant. So these Jews would often add these salts into the sacrifice because it was a preservative. And why does he36:30 do that? Because that's what they needed to hear. Back in verse 33, Jesus says, what were you discussing on the way to Capernaum? Jesus is wrapping this36:42 teaching all the way back around. What were they talking about? Who is the greatest? They kept silent and on the way they had discussed with36:53 1 another, Jesus is saying this, stop fighting, stop elevating yourself, stop the competition, stop being the cause of temptation37:05 because the result of this is Matthew 5 13, you are the what? The salt of the earth. That's what the Lord is saying here, to salt37:17 yourself in Mark. There are no other spiritual influences in this world than the true disciples of Jesus who are known by the radical nature of37:29 their discipleship. I'll close with this quote by Tim Keller says this, discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if you if anyone would come37:40 after me, he must follow me. The difficulty, the display, the dispute, and the demonstration. Let's pray. Father God, we thank you for this word.37:53 Your word that sanctifies us apart from this world. I pray that you would continue to, to to help us to draw near to you. Help us to see your38:05 word as as important. Help us to live this radical behavior of discipleship. Help us to walk in humility. Help us to treat 1 another with respect.38:18 Help us to live your word daily. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Before we leave, I wanna share the most important message. Do you daily38:30 realize that your life is being examined by the audience of 1 person? Do you daily realize that everything around you, skyscrapers, the buildings,38:44 stapler, whatever it is, well, burn, 1 day Do you daily realize that there are only 2 destinations in life?38:58 Yes. If you were to die today, how do you know how sure of you that you will go to heaven? Some of us in this room might say, I think I'm going to39:09 heaven because I'm a good person. When nowhere in the Bible does it say because you're a good person, you have access to heaven. Well, some may say, I think I'm going to39:21 heaven, but nowhere in the Bible does it say you can think yourself into heaven. So that's not that's not how you get there. I know I'm going to heaven because I39:33 love God. Well, nowhere in the Bible does it say because you love God that you have full access to heaven. Well, I know I'm going to heaven becauseShow more In this video 0:00 The Call to DiscipleshipComments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
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