The Cost: Take Up Your Cross (Luke 9:23-27)

SERMON NOTES

Sermon Series: Following Jesus

Sermon Title: The Cost: Take Up Your Cross

Sermon Text: Luke 9:18-27

Come to know the One you follow by asking, “Who is Jesus?” (v18-22)

Count the cost by asking, “What does it cost to follow Jesus?” (v23)

Following Jesus involves:

• Self-denial - deny yourself

• Suffering - take up your cross daily

• Surrendering Control - follow me

Consider the reward by asking, “Is it worth the cost to follow Jesus?” (v24-27)

SERMON FOOTNOTES

• This series was inspired by Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety by Henri Nouwen.

• This morning we read from the Nicene Creed as we expounded on Luke 9:22.

• F. Dale Bruner wrote an incredible 2-volume commentary on Matthew (as well as an incredible commentary one on John), cited in today’s sermon from his commentary on Matthew 16:24 (which parallels Luke 9:23).

• A number of citations by Dietrich Bonhoeffer from Chapter 4: Discipleship and the Cross from his book The Cost of Discipleship, including his well known line, “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”

• “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You're not in the driver's seat - I am.” - Eugene Peterson, Luke 9:23 in The Message.

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