Count the Cost

Bible Text: Luke 14:25-34 | Presenter: Rev. James Destine | Count the Cost

Luke 14:25-34

Crowds are spectators; all they are there for is to:

Watch
Cheer
Criticize

Luke 14:26

Hyperbole:

a deliberate exaggeration to prove a point

God must have prior claim over every other earthly allegiance

Galatians 2:20

Christianity is God first and God last with nothing in between 

Luke 14:27

Commit yourself to death

Luke 14:28-30

Luke 14:31-33

Luke 9:62

You ought not to get in the way, if you are not going all the way

Luke 14:34-35

Salt:

Preserves
Gives it flavor
Makes things grow

Commitment

He is no fool who gives up that which he cannot keep, to gain that which he cannot lose.
“He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”