BE CHRIST’S DISCIPLE:
PUT CHRIST FIRST
Luke 9:23-27
BE CHRIST’S DISCIPLE: PUT CHRIST
FIRST
What is a Disciple?
1. A follower, pupil, adherent of a teacher
2. Commits totally to the teacher/master
3. “Apprentice”
4. Discipleship is not Sonship
BE CHRIST’S DISCIPLE: PUT CHRIST
FIRST
Luke 9: 23-27
Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to
be my disciple must deny themselves and
take up their cross daily and follow
me. For whoever wants to save their life
will lose it, but whoever loses their life for
me will save it. What good is it for
someone to gain the whole world, and yet
lose or forfeit their very self?
BE CHRIST’S DISCIPLE: PUT CHRIST
FIRST
Luke 9: 23-27
Whoever is ashamed of me and my words,
the Son of Man will be ashamed of them
when he comes in his glory and in the
glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
Truly I tell you, some who are standing here
will not taste death before they see the
kingdom of God.”
BE CHRIST’S DISCIPLE: PUT CHRIST
FIRST
Possibility of false and insincere disciples
John 6:60-66
Verse 60-61 “On hearing it, many disciples said,
‘This is a hard teaching. Who can accept
it?”...…Jesus said to them ‘Does this offend you?”
Verse 66 “From this time many of his disciples
turned back and no longer followed him.”
BE CHRIST’S DISCIPLE: PUT CHRIST
FIRST
I.
The Command of Discipleship
II.
The Incentive of Discipleship
III.
The Application of Discipleship
I. THE COMMAND OF DISCIPLESHIP
Luke 9:23
“Whoever wants to be my disciple must
deny themselves, and take up their cross
daily and follow me”
Galatians 2:20
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no
longer I who live but Christ lives in me.
The life I now live, I live by faith in the
Son of God”
I. THE COMMAND OF
DISCIPLESHIP
Mark 3:14
“He (Jesus) appointed the twelve,
designating them apostles, that they
might be with him….”
Luke 6:40
“A student is not above his teacher, but
everyone who is fully trained will be
like his teacher.”
I. THE COMMAND OF DISCIPLESHIP
Luke 9:23
“Whoever wants to be my disciple must
deny themselves, and take up their cross
daily and follow me”
Cross: Identify with Christ in his
Suffering
Symbol of Suffering
Roman instrument of
Death/Execution
I. THE COMMAND OF
DISCIPLESHIP
Luke 9:23
“Whoever wants to be my disciple must
deny themselves, and take up their cross
daily and follow me”
In His footsteps; one step at a time
one day at a time
II. THE INCENTIVE OF DISCIPLESHIP
Verses 24-25
”For
whoever wants to save their life
will lose it, but whoever loses their
life for me will save it. What good is
it for someone to gain the whole
world, and yet lose or forfeit their
very self?”
II. THE INCENTIVE OF DISCIPLESHIP
Verse 27
“Truly I tell you, some who are standing
here will not taste death before they see the
kingdom of God.”
Jesus Christ, an example to follow
II. THE INCENTIVE OF DISCIPLESHIP
Philippians 2:6-9
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider
equality with God something to be used to his own
advantage, rather, he made himself nothing
(empty himself) by taking the very nature of
servant, being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself by becoming obedient to
death--even death on a cross.
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name
II. THE INCENTIVE OF DISCIPLESHIP
I Peter 2:21
“To this you were called, because
Christ suffered for you, leaving you
an example, that you should follow in
his steps”
II. THE INCENTIVE OF DISCIPLESHIP
Three Requirements of Discipleship:
1. Deny Oneself
2. Take up the Cross daily
3. Follow Jesus
III. THE APPLICATION OF
DISCIPLESHIP
Practical Action Steps
1. To Become Christ-Like
2. To Make Disciples
III. THE APPLICATION OF
DISCIPLESHIP
To Become Christ-Like (into his
likeness)
Romans 8:23
“For those God foreknew he also
predestined to be conformed to the likeness
of his Son…..”
II Corinthians 3:18
Believers “are being transformed into his
likeness with ever increasing glory”
III. THE APPLICATION OF
DISCIPLESHIP
1. To Become Christ-Like
2. To Make Disciples
Matthew 28:19-20
“Therefore go and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit
and teaching them to obey everything I
have commanded you. And surely I am
with you always to the end of the age.”
A PICTURE OF DISCIPLESHIP