The Cost of Discipleship

“As they were walking along the road, a man said to Him, ‘I will follow You wherever You go.’ Jesus replied, ‘Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.’ He said to another man, ‘Follow Me.’ But he replied, ‘Lord, first let me go and bury my father.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.’ Still another said, ‘I will follow You, Lord; but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family.’ Jesus replied, ‘No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of

God.’” (Luke 9:57-62 NIV)

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Counting the Cost

1. Will you be an Abishai or an Ahimelek? – Abishai said . Ahimelek said .

“David then asked Ahimelek the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, ‘Who will go down

into the camp with me to Saul?’” (1 Sam. 26:6 NIV)

1. Don’t ask God to guide your unless you are willing to move your .

“But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to David’s rescue; he struck the Philistine down and killed him. Then

David’s men swore to him, saying, ‘Never again will you go out with us to battle, so that the lamp of

Israel will not be extinguished.’” (2 Sam. 21:17 NIV)