TEXT LUKE 14:26-28
CLASSIC
TOPIC : THE COST OF POWER.
It will cost you your time.
[26]If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
[27]And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
[28]For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Beloved, there are many people who joined the church without counting the cost.
Today, being a born again Christian is the in thing.
It is now very fashionable to be a born again .
On Sunday mornings, the churches are filled with beautiful ladies with glowing bodies and very expensive hairs and nails who come from the brothels and young men who come straight from the night clubs.
These ones became born again without counting the costs of following Jesus.
They did not know that following Jesus was dying to the world while carrying your cross.
Many of them saw the church as a place to find the type of husband that they have fantasized all their lives.
It's also a place where their consciences are massaged, while still living in sin, the leave the church every Sunday feeling like saints.
The problem here is that the pastor and his team have entered into a big problem.
With these ones there is no end to follow-up.
Today they are in church, tomorrow they are out, you keep following them up.
Beloved, there is nothing wrong with the church, the problem is with men and women who want to hide in the church as active sinners, refusing to repent.
I have been told by some fathers in the faith that they will change.
Do they really change?
I have watched many in the years that I have been into ministry.
I have not seen any change.
Only a sinner with a sincere commitment to change, with contrite spirit can repent.
How come one alter call today can gather one thousand to the church, but the city cannot feel their effect?
How come just twelve men from Jesus's church affected the whole city but a church of a hundred thousand just creates an atmosphere for weekend celebration with a huge dancing hall.
We are replicating the world in the church because we do not want to invest our time in the work of God.
Beloved pastors stop weeping, they are not only escaping from church, they are escaping from their marriages, their schools, their businesses and every relationship that demand commitment.
These people did not count the cost.
Salvation that provides eternal life is what the Lord paid in full, when it comes to serving the Lord, there are costs to be paid by the believer.
It will surely cost you your time.
God bless you.
With the God I serve, nothing shall be impossible.
Your case is not bigger than God.
May you have a God filled day in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Your Victory is already guaranteed
It is well, do not give up, with God all things are possible
(Please be a blessing to seven persons by sending to them devotionals)
For further reading,
1 Samuel 2.
1 Peter 5.
Pastor Obi Ejikeme
Senior Pastor
House of faith, Nigeria
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