Count the Cost

Pastor Ty Neal

Jesus, save the lost and guide the saved.

Luke 14:25-27 (The Message)
Luke 14:28-30 (The Message)
Luke 14:33 (The Message)

Big Idea: The call to Christ will cost your life and bring you life.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17
2 Corinthians 6:16

Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord’s witnesses may be hated and ill-treated, and even done to death, but they cannot be harmed. Though they may appear to be overcome by enemies, yet it is they who are the overcomers.

R Kent Hughes

We are The Suffering Church

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot

Remember you are immortal until your work is done. But don’t let the sands of time get into the eyes of your vision to reach those who still sit in darkness. They simply must hear.

Jim Elliot

The Cost of Faithfulness (no matter what)

Tertullian wrote to the Roman persecutors that “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.”

Tertullian

The Cost of Jesus

Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving and honoring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by Cannibals or by worms; and in the Great Day my resurrection body will arise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer.”

Revelation 11:14

Jesus, I recognize that I am a sinner in need of Your forgiveness. I believe that You died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead. I turn from my sins and place my trust in You as my Lord and Savior. Please receive me now. I pray this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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