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Luke 9:57 Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said
to Him, “Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.”
Luke 9:58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have
nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”
Luke 9:59 Then He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first
go and bury my father.”
Luke 9:60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and
preach the kingdom of God.”
Luke 9:61 And another also said, “Lord, I will follow You; but let me first go bid
them farewell, who are at my house.”
Luke 9:62 And Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow,
and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
1 Timothy 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
1 Timothy 2:4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge
of the truth.
Olivia Newton John quote
“They all seem to have the same ending … we go to heaven or we join others
in the spirit world.”
On Jan. 18, Crosby joked on Twitter about a post claiming “people with tattoos will
not go to heaven.” Crosby replied, “I heard the place is overrated … cloudy.”
His former bandmate Stephen Stills said, “His music will live on through us all
even as he now sails to his eternal sunset.”
In 1973 there was a song entitled “Rock n’ Roll Heaven” with this chorus:
If you believe in forever
Then life is just a one-night stand
If there’s a rock n’ roll heaven
Well you know they’ve got a hell of a band
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things
have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
We don’t show our salvation by what we say.
We reveal our salvation by the fruit that we bear.
We are not saved by making a decision for Jesus.
We are saved by surrendering our life to Jesus.
John 6:60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said,
“This is a hard saying; who can understand it?”
John 6:66 From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him
no more.
I. JESUS SAID FOLLOW ME ABOVE PERSONAL COMFORT.
Luke 9:57 Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said
to Him, “Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.”
John 2:24 But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men,
John 2:25 and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew
what was in man.
Luke 9:58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests,
but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”
It’s not just about what I get when I get Jesus; it’s about what am I willing to give up.
II. JESUS SAID FOLLOW ME WITH NO DELAYS.
Luke 9:59 Then He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go
and bury my father.”
Luke 9:60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and
preach the kingdom of God.”
III. JESUS SAID FOLLOW ME AND DON’T LOOK BACK.
Luke 9:61 And another also said, “Lord, I will follow You; but let me first go bid
them farewell, who are at my house.”
Matthew 10:37 He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me.
And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
Luke 9:62 And Jesus said to him, No one, having put his hand to the plow,
and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Now, as part of that campaign, Equinox didn’t let new members join on the 1st of
January.
Losing weight is one of the more popular New Year’s resolutions, but Equinox
gymns doesn’t want your New Year’s Day sign-up.
January is a language we don’t understand.
It wants you to start something when you should be in the middle of it.
It thinks time is on its side.
It needs a new outfit before it can begin.
Stalling, short-cutting, giving up.
We don’t speak January.
You are not a New Year’s resolution. Your life doesn’t start at the beginning
of the year. And that’s not what being part of Equinox is about,
Equinox, it’s not fitness, it’s life
Take your resolutions somewhere else.
We don’t want those who sign up but never show up. That’s not us
IV. JESUS SAID FOLLOW ME BUT COUNT THE COST.
Luke 14:25 Now great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and said to them,
Luke 14:26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother,
wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be
My disciple.
Luke 14:27 And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be
My disciple
Luke 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first
and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it
Luke 14:29 Lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who
see it begin to mock him,
Luke 14:30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish’?
I have decided to follow Jesus
No turning back, no turning back
Wherever He leads, I’ll go
I’ll follow my Christ who loves me so
Wherever He leads, I’ll go
Follow! follow! I will follow Jesus!
Anywhere, everywhere, I will follow on!
Follow! follow! I will follow Jesus!
Everywhere He leads me I will follow on!
John 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
