Counting the Cost
Outer Piety vs. Inward Devotion
Salvation
is free - Discipleship costs everything
Matthew
16:24-26 ; Luke 14:33
read:
Mark 10:17-31
v17
“good teacher” , what
can I “do” to work for
salvation
John 6: 26-28
v20
I’m good enough on my own
v21
Jesus looked on him with compassion -
and said, “come follow
me”
v22
He counted the cost and walked away -
sad
note:
an
inward rebellious attitude that exalts self
is
sin and
defies God
Justification
is by Faith -
Galatians 2:16-21 ; Ephesians
2:8-10
A
covetous spirit is a terrible sin - only a living faith in God’s grace brings
salvation !
In the Christian life we must lose to gain; we must give to obtain; we must be humble to be exalted; we must be least to be greatest; we must die to live !
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