Converts know Jesus as
Jesus began speaking to the crowds…Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
– Matthew 11:7-28 (NASB)
Disciples know Jesus as
I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. – Luke 10:19 (NIV)
How to be Great in God’s Kingdom (vv.46-48)
(Later) And a dispute also developed among them as to which one of them was regarded as being the greatest
– Luke 22:24 (NASB)
Then they came to Capernaum. While Jesus was at home, he asked the disciples, “What were you arguing about on the road?” 34They were silent. On the road they had argued about who was the greatest.
– Mark 9:33-34 (GWT)
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
– Matthew 18:1 (NRSV)
(v.48) Receive: dechomai – to receive into one’s family to bring up or educate (OTESD)
Disciples recognize that God’s Kingdom is bigger than (vv.49-50)
The Great Divide (v.51)
And it happened in the fulfilling of the days of His taking up, even He set His face to go to Jerusalem
– Luke 9:51 (LITV)
I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting. 7Because the Sovereign LORD helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore have I set my face like flint, and I know I will not be put to shame. 8He who vindicates me is near. – Isaiah 50:6-8 (NIV)
(vv.55-56)
But Jesus turned and corrected them for what they had said (v.55) (CEV) and said, “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. 56For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.” And they went to another village. – Luke 9:55-56 (NKJV)
Disciples know, Jesus came to people (vv.55-56)
When rejected a Disciple learns to
The central term in this section is (vv.57,59,61)
Follow: akoloutheō – to accompany (specially, as a disciple) – follow (OTESD)
A Disciple has to (vv.57-58)
Then a scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.” 20And Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.
– Matthew 8:19-20 (NASB)
Following Jesus isn’t a (v.59)
And He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”
– Luke 9:59 (NASB)
This man is called ministry
When the dad died the was
I will follow you when I’m
I’ll follow when it doesn’t require
A Disciple follows Jesus with no
Not conditions (vv.61-62)
Another said, “Yes, Lord, I will come, but first let me ask permission of those at home. – Luke 9:61 (TLB)
Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
– Luke 9:62 (NIV)