Count the Cost

In this third episode of season 4 we are looking at one of the most, if not the most, difficult aspects of discipleship and preaching the gospel - counting the cost. Throughout the western church (gathering of people in a building), not the called out ones, something which seems largely absent is the teaching of following CHRIST JESUS the LORD will cost you!

29 For to you it has been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake,
(Php 1:29)

Here are additional Scriptures used in this episode along with a short video by Steve Lawson that are used to demonstrate that following CHRIST will cost you in this world.

25 Now large crowds were going along with 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 carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.
28 “For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?
29 “Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him,
30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
31 “Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
32 “Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.
33 “So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.
34 “Therefore, salt is good; but if even salt has become tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?
35 “It is useless either for the soil or for the manure pile; it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

(Luke 14:25–35)

20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

(Galatians 2:20)

13 but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exultation.

(1 Peter 4:13)

12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

(2 Ti 3:12). (1995)

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