The kind of person Jesus can disciple 3

Thus far in our study:

The kind of person Jesus can disciple must be a “leave-r” of anything and everything the Holy Spirit leads one to, and a follower of Christ and Christ’s WORD in everything we do!

Remember it doesn’t have to be sin for God to lead you to leave it…

Today we will look at the kind of commitment needed to be a disciple of Christ.

If you are born again technically you are a follower a believer a Christian and a disciple of Christ but you would agree that you can be born again and a believer but still not necessarily follow Jesus in everything you do.
I like to refer to someone who follow Jesus in word and in deed as a disciple!

1. a Disciple follows and is committed to following.

No doubt the disciples had many opportunities to choose to follow someone else or to go back to their old jobs. Jesus even asked them, after a whole group of people who started believing in him took offense and left him, whether they too planned on leaving him. But they were committed to Him and His words as he was the one who had the “words of life”

Have you ever had to decide to stay with Jesus when others left or stopped following his words?_______________________

Matt 16:24
What does this verse teach us about being a disciple?
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What will you do when people you are working with or living or studying with, decides to not follow Jesus in a certain area?____________________________________________________________________

Matt 10:25
What does this verse teach us concerning being a committed disciple of Christ?
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a Disciple doesn’t take offense on what Jesus says or commands

If the disciples had many opportunities to leave Jesus they had even more to be offended by Him! Countless times He called them “ye of little faith”

How would you have felt if Jesus rebuked you like he did Peter: “Get behind me satan, you think only of the physical and not of the spiritual”?
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Wouldn’t you have been put to shame in front of the others? Meaning well, wouldn’t you have felt like Jesus didn’t appreciate what you tried to do?_________________________

What offense do you carry with you towards God?____________________________

What offense do you carry with you towards God’s people or leaders of God’s church?
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Hebr12:15, Matt11:6
What does this verse teach us about offense?
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Eph4:31
What does God command us to do through this verse?
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The Word also teaches us to live with hearts clear of offense towards God and man! Jesus often disciplines us through His word and through other’s words! He prunes to make us bear more and better fruit! (John15) He is discipling us and we shouldn’t take offense at it making it a difficult task for him to disciple us.

Hebrews 12:5-11

You have forgotten the encouraging words that God speaks to you as his children: “My child, pay attention when the Lord disciplines you. Don’t give up when he corrects you.
The Lord disciplines everyone he loves. He severely disciplines everyone he accepts as his child.”
Endure your discipline. God corrects you as a father corrects his children. All children are disciplined by their fathers.
If you aren’t disciplined like the other children, you aren’t part of the family.
On earth we have fathers who disciplined us, and we respect them. Shouldn’t we place ourselves under the authority of God, the father of spirits, so that we will live?
For a short time our fathers disciplined us as they thought best. Yet, God disciplines us for our own good so that we can become holy like him.
We don’t enjoy being disciplined. It always seems to cause more pain than joy. But later on, those who learn from that discipline have peace that comes from doing what is right.

God never disciplines us through bringing bad circumstances like sickness or calamity. He uses his word!!! The book of Ephesians teaches that he washes us with his word! So never look to bad things that may happen as God punishing you, rather be mindful when you are corrected by someone or by the Word, that God is bringing discipline into your life and so discipling you according to his will.