It will cost your allegiance to earthly citizenships. To follow Jesus, to take up your cross, deny yourself and follow Him - will cost you everything. The fact is, if you choose to follow Jesus and place the needs of outsiders on a par with your own tribe's needs, sooner or later you will clash. That is why you cannot pledge allegiance to any Kingdom other than the Kingdom of God, which requires blessing and commitment to everyone - not just your own tribe, nation or religion. Ironically, the threat to Jesus' life comes not from the Baal-worshippers, or enemy combatants, but from religious insiders. The people jumped up and dragged Jesus over to the edge of cliff where they were going to throw him off. Jesus' words of radical inclusivity were like a red flag to the bull of nationalism. Let's start with these 3 things, the cost of following Jesus: You are destroying your platform with these hard sayings Jesus.ĭeny myself? Are you kidding me? What exactly are you asking me to give up? This is why most of your followers, friends and subscribers left.
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Here we were thinking that Jesus died on the cross so we wouldn't have to die!?! Jesus suffered so that we wouldn't have to right? That's what I was taught at Sunday school - it's called substitution.ĭammit Jesus. What Jesus might not have realized, is that this call to welcome strangers is costly.
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Then, inconveniently, Jesus asked us to say "I care about other people in the world" in a more costly way. Even the most ignorant of world affairs could hardly miss the crisis - since Facebook offered us the opportunity to say "I care about other people in the world" by putting the French flag on our Profile Picture.