Luke 14:25-33

25 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 

26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 

27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 

28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 

29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 

30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 

31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 

32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 

33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. 

Important Thought

Jesus was never impressed with crowds, He was more concerned with commitment.

John 6:53

53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 

The word, Disciple is found in the Gospels and the book of Acts— 264 times.

The word, Christian is found in the New Testament— 3 times.

Acts 11:26

26 and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians. 

Acts 26:28

28 And Agrippa said to Paul, “In a short time would you persuade me to be a Christian?”

1 Peter 4:16 

16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. 

Genesis 29:31

31 When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. 

Genesis 29:30

30 So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years. 

Malachi 1:2-3

2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob 

3 but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.” 

Luke 14:34-35

34 “Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? 

35 It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”