The Bible Teaches Doctrine (part 10): Man Pursues Through Discipleship

“True discipleship is both costly and full of grace. It is costly because it calls us to follow. It is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus. It is costly because it costs us our whole life, it is grace because it gives us the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and it is grace because it justifies the sinner. Above all it is costly because it cost God the life of His son. What costs God much, we must never make cheap! Above all it is grace because God was willing to give up his Son for us.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

DISCIPLES FOLLOW

DISCIPLES FOLLOW Matthew 4:18 While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 19 And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” 20 Immediately they left their nets and followed him. 21 And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets,

DISCIPLES FOLLOW and he called them. 22 Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.

DISCIPLES FOLLOW “They did not consider his claims, make up their minds, and then decide whether to follow—they simply heard and obeyed. Their response is a testimony to the absolute direct, and unaccountable authority of Jesus. Disciples are not so much those who follow as those who must follow.” Os Guinness

DISCIPLES FOLLOW Romans 8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

DISCIPLES FOLLOW Matthew 11:28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

DISCIPLES FOLLOW 2 Peter 1:3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

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DISCIPLES SURRENDER

DISCIPLES SURRENDER John 2:11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

DISCIPLES SURRENDER John 10:10b I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

DISCIPLES SURRENDER Matthew 8:19 And a scribe came up and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” 20 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

DISCIPLES SURRENDER Matthew 10:37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

DISCIPLES SURRENDER 2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.

DISCIPLES SURRENDER Matthew 8:21 Another of the disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 22 And Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

DISCIPLES SURRENDER Romans 8:17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

DISCIPLES SURRENDER Matthew 10:21 Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death, 22 and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

DISCIPLES SURRENDER Matthew 10:24 “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. 25 It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master.

DISCIPLES SURRENDER Matthew 10:17 Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues, 18 and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles. 19 When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour. 20 For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

DISCIPLES SURRENDER 2 Corinthians 12:9b Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

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DISCIPLES CHANGE

DISCIPLES CHANGE 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

DISCIPLES CHANGE “[Discipleship] is costly because it condemns sin, and it is grace because it justifies the sinner. Above all it is costly because it cost God the life of His son. What costs God much, we must never make cheap!” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

DISCIPLES CHANGE Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

DISCIPLES CHANGE 1 John 3:6 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.

DISCIPLES CHANGE Ephesians 2:3 we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved— … 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

DISCIPLES CHANGE “The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One. While he looks at Christ, the very things he has so long been trying to do will be getting done within him.” A.W. Tozer

DISCIPLES CHANGE Hebrews 12:1b let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2a looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith,

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