Law & Gospel, the Christian Life & the Cost of Discipleship | Luke 14:25-35
ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church · Carlos Montijo
June 18, 2023
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Jun 18, 2023 </span> <span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong> Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/law-gospel-distinction">Law & Gospel Distinction</a></span> <span class="sermon-scripture sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/John%201.17;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="John 1.17" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">John 1:17</a>, <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Heb%2012.3%E2%80%9311;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Heb 12.3–11" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Hebrews 12:3–11</a>, <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Luke%2014.25%E2%80%9335;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Luke 14.25–35" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Luke 14:25–35</a>, <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Matt%2018.7%E2%80%939;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Matt 18.7–9" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Matthew 18:7–9</a>, <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/John%206.47%E2%80%9369;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="John 6.47–69" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">John 6:47–69</a>, <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Matt%2011.28%E2%80%9330;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Matt 11.28–30" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Matthew 11:28–30</a></span> <span class="sermon-series sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-12" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/law-gospel-defined-distinguished-applied">Law & Gospel Defined, Distinguished, Applied</a></span></p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <h4><span class="text Luke-14-25">Luke 14:25–35</span></h4> <p><span class="text Luke-14-25">Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them,</span> <span id="en-ESV-25571" class="text Luke-14-26"><span class="woj">“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.</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-25572" class="text Luke-14-27"><span class="woj">Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-25573" class="text Luke-14-28"><span class="woj">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?</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-25574" class="text Luke-14-29"><span class="woj">Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-25575" class="text Luke-14-30"><span class="woj">saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-25576" class="text Luke-14-31"><span class="woj">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?</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-25577" class="text Luke-14-32"><span class="woj">And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-25578" class="text Luke-14-33"><span class="woj">So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.</span></span></p> <p><span id="en-ESV-25579" class="text Luke-14-34"></span><span class="text Luke-14-34"><span class="woj">“Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?</span></span> <span id="en-ESV-25580" class="text Luke-14-35"><span class="woj">It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”</span></span></p> <p>Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.</p>