6. Discipleship / Cost of Following

"And he said to all, 'If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.'"

Luke 9:23

"For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."

Matthew 16:25

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

Luke 14:26

"In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions."

Luke 14:33

"Jesus said to him, 'No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.'"

Luke 9:62

"He said to another, 'Follow me.' But he replied, 'Lord, first let me go and bury my father.' But Jesus said to him, 'Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.'"

Luke 9:59-60

Counting the Cost — Luke 14:28-33

What have you kept that He asked you to renounce?

7. Hypocrisy

"When you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, they have their reward."

Matthew 6:16

"Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye,' while there is a beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."

Matthew 7:3-5

"This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me."

Matthew 15:8

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean."

Matthew 23:27

Woes to the Pharisees and Experts in the Law — Matthew 23:1-36 | Luke 11:37-54

Teaching on Alms, Prayer, and Fasting — Matthew 6:1-18

What is the distance between what you present to others and what you are before God?