Title: Matthew: "The Template" (5)
Series: Follow Me:
The Story Of Discipleship
Author: Tim Badal
Text: Matthew 9:9-13
This summer we have been focusing on two words from Jesus. They're two very simple words: "Follow Me." As followers of Jesus Christ, we want to follow Him to the best of our abilities in a way that will glorify and honor Him. One of the questions we have to ask is, "How do we do that?"
So we've looked to His disciples, those 12 men who took that call and were transformed by Jesus as they followed Him. They were men who sat under His teaching, obeyed His commandments, and surrendered their all so the call might be evident in their lives. They accepted His invitation to follow Him, but they weren't the only ones who were given that invitation.
In fact, we read in Matthew 16:24 that this invitation to follow Jesus is given to every one of us. It says, "If anyone..." That's you, that's me. "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." You and I have been given the grand opportunity to follow Jesus, listen to His teachings and obey His commands. We are called to surrender our lives to Him. How do we know if we're doing this well? How do we know if we're on the right path? How do we know if we're incorporating the right things in our following of Him?
This series has centered on the lives of the 12 men who accepted this call. It's easy for us, as we talked about early in this series, to exalt these men and build statues of them in our minds, making them seem super-human. We look at their lives and think, "That was them, but that could never be me."
Another extreme is to eviscerate them, that is to harshly criticize them. We would think, "These men who were held in such high regard, these men that have churches and statues named after them, they did some really foolish things. If I walked and talked with Jesus, if I experienced all these men experienced with Jesus, I wouldn't have done t ...
Series: Follow Me:
The Story Of Discipleship
Author: Tim Badal
Text: Matthew 9:9-13
This summer we have been focusing on two words from Jesus. They're two very simple words: "Follow Me." As followers of Jesus Christ, we want to follow Him to the best of our abilities in a way that will glorify and honor Him. One of the questions we have to ask is, "How do we do that?"
So we've looked to His disciples, those 12 men who took that call and were transformed by Jesus as they followed Him. They were men who sat under His teaching, obeyed His commandments, and surrendered their all so the call might be evident in their lives. They accepted His invitation to follow Him, but they weren't the only ones who were given that invitation.
In fact, we read in Matthew 16:24 that this invitation to follow Jesus is given to every one of us. It says, "If anyone..." That's you, that's me. "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." You and I have been given the grand opportunity to follow Jesus, listen to His teachings and obey His commands. We are called to surrender our lives to Him. How do we know if we're doing this well? How do we know if we're on the right path? How do we know if we're incorporating the right things in our following of Him?
This series has centered on the lives of the 12 men who accepted this call. It's easy for us, as we talked about early in this series, to exalt these men and build statues of them in our minds, making them seem super-human. We look at their lives and think, "That was them, but that could never be me."
Another extreme is to eviscerate them, that is to harshly criticize them. We would think, "These men who were held in such high regard, these men that have churches and statues named after them, they did some really foolish things. If I walked and talked with Jesus, if I experienced all these men experienced with Jesus, I wouldn't have done t ...
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