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What does it mean to ‘Follow Jesus’?
I encourage you to take a moment to think about that question.
In church, we sometimes talk about following Jesus, but what does that mean?
Specifically, we spent time looking at Luke 9:23.
Luke 9:23 NIVThen he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
These are requirements.
Jesus said if we want to be His disciples we must do these things.
We must
Learn from Him
This is the same call Jesus gives to us.
We read in Matthew 11:28-29:
Matthew 11:28–29 NIV“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Following Jesus means to learn from Him.
How will you learn from Jesus? Make a plan, and put it into action.
How will you read?
How will you memorize and meditate?
How will you pray?The second part of following Jesus that I see is:
Love and Worship Him
As the disciples spent time learning from Jesus, they truly fell in love with Him.
They loved what He did, what He taught, and finally recognized who He is!
When they did, they worshipped Him!The context we were studying in John was the feeding of the 5000, and then the storm in the night when Jesus came walking on the water.
Matthew records some details that John did not.
Look at them with me.
Now, pay attention to the next verse:
As we learn from Jesus and see Him for who He is, it should lead us to worship Him!We do need to worship Jesus throughout the week, not just on Sundays.
We should be worshiping Him with all our lives according to Romans 12:1.
Giving Him our lives and living for Him is our spiritual worship!
However, I believe we should also be worshiping Him with our lips, hearts and minds!
We need to be using Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs in our lives regularly!
I believe Jesus was teaching us how to worship in Matthew 6.
He speaks of praying to our Father in Heaven.
How does that prayer begin?
"Our Father who is in Heaven, Hallowed be your name!!” That is worship!
After Jesus spoke of prayer in Matthew 6, He spoke of fasting.
We do not speak about, nor do I use fasting, yet the scriptures speak of it?
Why don’t I? Fasting is a way to grow in our love and worship is to fast.
Taking time to focus on Jesus instead of myself gets me away from self worship, which comes too easily.
Again, fasting is a tool in our arsenal to grow in our love and worship of Jesus as we spend time focusing on Him! Let’s use every tool available to grow in our worship!
Then, after fasting in Matthew 6, Jesus speaks of worshiping with our treasures.
I think we can rightly put money there for treasure.
How am I using my money?
Where we spend our money shows where our heart is, doesn’t it?
Am I using my money as a means of setting Him apart as Lord, and following Him?
Is my heart worshiping Him, or is it set on things of this world?
Let’s use our money to worship Him!This week, make a plan.
How will you grow you love for and worship of Jesus?
Only as we love and worship will we be true followers.
Love the body
Jesus spent a lot of time teaching His disciples.
At the very end, the night before He was betrayed, He gave His last instructions.
If you have one last opportunity to speak to a loved one before you died, would you share what is most important, or just pick any old topic?
I think we would share what is one of the most important.
Let’s look at what Jesus shared.
Turn to John 13.
As Jesus continues His instructions He says this:
If we want to follow Jesus, we need to love and serve His body.
We need to love and serve other believers in the body of Christ.
There are too many today who think that they can be followers of Jesus without being a real part of a church.
I do not see that in the Bible.
Jesus says a lot in His word about how we are to love one another, care for one another, share one another’s burdens, help one another, encourage one another, exhort one another, build one another up, and so on.
Jesus is the one who says to not give up meeting together and encouraging one another daily because of the deceitfulness of sin.
We need to be a part of a body, using our spiritual gifts for one another.
If anyone says otherwise, they are contradicting Jesus, and that would be what?
Sin.
Jesus says that if we do not love our brothers...
Love the World
Tell others about Him and His Kingdom
Live in Obedience
Follow me
Learn from me
Worship
Love the Body
Love the World
Obey
Jesus isn’t looking for someone who will do Him a favor.
We don’t do favors for Jesus.
We do for Jesus because we are His slaves.
We receive favors from Jesus.
What we do, what we really put our time and effort into shows what we follow.
In the same way, what we do not really put our effort into, shows where we are just fans.
Homework
The Homework this week is to make a plan to Follow Jesus.
Learn from Him. Read Mark 1:17, Matthew 11:28-29, and Romans 12:1-2.
Jesus wants us to follow Him by learning from Him, the way the disciples did.
We need to learn from Him so that we can be transformed in our minds and actions to be like Him.
Without learning from Him, we cannot follow Him.
So, how will you continue to learn from Him? How will you plan to spend time reading and applying God’s Word?
How will you memorize God’s Word (I would encourage you to get ScriptureTyper app)?
How will you continue to learn from the teachers God has given to the body so that we can grow up and become mature in Christ (cf.
Ephesians 4:11-12)?
To whom will you be accountable to mutually encourage one another to Learn from Him?
Love and Worship Him.
Matthew 14:33 shows how the disciples, as they learned from Jesus, recognized who He was.
This lead them to love and worship Him.
How will you make loving and worshipping Jesus a part of your daily life?
We do worship with our lives (Romans 12:1, 1 Corinthians 10:31).
However, I think it important to express our worship verbally in prayer and song.
How will you make prayer a priority?
Yes, we need to pray moment by moment throughout the day (1 Thessalonians 5:17).
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