Are we prepared or ready to meet our God? Hosea reminded us Hosea 10:12 “Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.” Luke 14:26-33 tell us that, 26If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have [sufficient] to finish [it]? 29Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish [it], all that behold [it] begin to mock him, 30Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. 31Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? 32Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace. 33So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
Count the Cost – greatest cost was the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 4:18 "If the righteous one is scarcely saved, Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?" By nature we are ignorant and easily deceived by Satan’s substitutes. Self-love reigns within, and to deny self is very difficult. The love of the world, friends, fortune, prestige, etc… John said it this way, I John 1:16 “For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the PRIDE OF LIFE, is not of the Father, but is of the wo
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Count the Cost – greatest cost was the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 4:18 "If the righteous one is scarcely saved, Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?" By nature we are ignorant and easily deceived by Satan’s substitutes. Self-love reigns within, and to deny self is very difficult. The love of the world, friends, fortune, prestige, etc… John said it this way, I John 1:16 “For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the PRIDE OF LIFE, is not of the Father, but is of the wo