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Take Great Risks With Open Eyes
Take Great Risks With Open Eyes (Luke 14:25–33) preached on 23 September 2018 at 9:30 by Alastair Bolt
Sermon 13 in the series Parables of the Kingdom
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Bible Passage
Luke 14:25–33 (Listen)
The Cost of Discipleship
25 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
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Sermons in the Series Parables of the Kingdom
1 The Great Feast
2 The Mustard Tree
3 The Workers in the Vineyard
4 Working in the Vineyard
5 Wheat and Weeds
6 God Deploys Power To Create Parties
7 Good Listening
8 People of Zest, Purity and the Long View
9 Chosen for Gainful Employment
10 Smallness and Glorified Bigness
11 Rock or Sand?
12 Scattering, Leaving and Being Ready
13 Take Great Risks With Open Eyes
14 Abide in Me
15 Let Your Light Shine
16 Coming Home
17 Saying Yes and Being Yes
18 Edginess and Astuteness
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