WHY COUNT THE COST?

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WHY COUNT THE COST?

• QUESTIONS FOR SEEKERS

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Serious requirements
DISCIPLESHIP
Serious consequences

• V. 28-30- because of ridicule
• V. 31-32- because of defeat
• V. 34-35- because of losing influence

• V. 26- necessary to love family less
• V. 27- necessary to face individual battles
• V. 33- necessary to love possessions less

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Some Areas Worth Counting the cost

1. Count the cost of ones associates

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• You shall not fall in with the many to do evil,
  nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding
  with the many, so as to pervert justice, (Exodus
  232)
• The wise will inherit honor, but fools get
  disgrace. (Proverbs 335 ESV)
• Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the
  companion of fools will suffer harm. (Proverbs
  1320 ESV)

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Why is it important to avoid ill-chosen
companions?

• Do not be deceived Bad company ruins good
  morals.
• (1 Corinthians 1533 ESV)

Though they know God's righteous decree that
those who practice such things deserve to die,
they not only do them but give approval to those
who practice them. (Romans 132 ESV)
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Jim Rohn- entrepreneur , businessman,
motivational speaker

• You must constantly ask yourself these questions
  Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What
  have they got me reading? What have they got me
  saying? Where do they have me going? What do they
  have me thinking? And most important, what do
  they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big
  question Is that okay? Life does not get better
  by chance, it gets better by change.

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Some Areas Worth Counting the cost

1. Count the cost of ones associates
2. Count the cost of enslaving habits

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• Do you not know that if you present yourselves to
  anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the
  one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to
  death, or of obedience, which leads to
  righteousness? (Romans 616 ESV)
• But what fruit were you getting at that time from
  the things of which you are now ashamed? For the
  end of those things is death. (Romans 621 ESV)
• For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift
  of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  (Romans 623 ESV)

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• All things are lawful for me, but not all
  things are helpful. All things are lawful for
  me, but I will not be dominated by anything.
  (1 Corinthians 612 ESV)

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Some Areas Worth Counting the cost

1. Count the cost of ones associates
2. Count the cost of enslaving habits
3. Count the cost of bad attitudes

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• And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom
  you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let
  all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and
  slander be put away from you, along with all
  malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted,
  forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave
  you. (Ephesians 430-32 ESV)

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Act, dont React

• And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom
  you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let
  all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and
  slander be put away from you, along with all
  malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted,
  forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave
  you. (Ephesians 430-32 ESV)

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These belong to the old self

• But now you must put them all away anger, wrath,
  malice, slander, and obscene talk from your
  mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you
  have put off the old self with its practices and
  have put on the new self, which is being renewed
  in knowledge after the image of its creator.
  (Colossians 38-10 ESV)

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These belong to the chosen ones

• Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and
  beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness,
  humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with
  one another and, if one has a complaint against
  another, forgiving each other as the Lord has
  forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
  (Colossians 312-13 ESV)

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Works of the flesh include bad attitudes

• Now the works of the flesh are evident sexual
  immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry,
  sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger,
  rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy,
  drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I
  warn you, as I warned you before, that those who
  do such things will not inherit the kingdom of
  God. (Galatians 519-21 ESV)

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Encouraged to bear proper fruit

• But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
  patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  gentleness, self-control against such things
  there is no law. (Galatians 522-23 ESV)

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Some Areas Worth Counting the cost

1. Count the cost of ones associates
2. Count the cost of enslaving habits
3. Count the cost of bad attitudes
4. Count the cost of failure

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Counting the cost if we fail

1. Loss
2. Spiritual death
3. Giving up fight
4. Tower unbuilt and abandoned
5. Army defeated in death

1. Matthew 1342- furnace of fire, weeping and
   gnashing of teeth
2. Matthew 812- outer darkness
3. Rev. 1311- torment forever without rest