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How was Jesus the perfect sacrifice? Did Jesus become a sinner? What did the sacrifice of Jesus cost?

Philippians 1:12-26 Serving God and advancing the gospel will always cost something. In Philippians we see three things that advancing the gospel may cost us, but keeping in mind it will be worth it.

Jesus' Kingdom is upside down in it's priorities. Jesus teaches us to esteem others as better than ourselves and to lay down everything to be His disciple. The call to the Christian life is a call to total surrender of ourselves and our rights to the will and authority of another. While the generation of Jews to which Jesus was sent mostly rejected Him, some believed. While judgement came on those who rejected Him, some were rescued. The same is still true; for Jew or Gentile (non-Jew) alike. Jesus rescues sinners. Count the cost and come, follow Him. Shared by Jason Stuart Percy on Sunday, August 1, 2021 at Refuge Christian Fellowship in Tallahassee, FL.

Jesus asks everything from those who follow Him. He will be second to none and nothing in the life of His disciples. Only He has the right to claim this kind of ownership of us since He created us, sustains us, keeps us alive, orchestrates our lives in the order in which we find them, and He knows the beginning from the end. God is supreme and Sovereign and there is no other being like Him. Jesus demonstrates to us the power and order and control of our God. We who follow Him lay down everything for Him. There is no other option for us for everything else is covetousness and idolatry. Jesus rescues us and brings us into his Kingdom where we find we needed no other things besides Him anyhow. He is present in our storms, able to calm when He is ready. He is able to heal and even the demonic forces know who He is and are under His authority as they, too, are something He created. He created them good, they turned away from Him, but they are no match for Him. That is sure. Be not afraid!

In order to take hold of the gospel and embrace the free grace of God in Christ, we must count (accept) the cost of laying down our lives. In this message, Pastor John walks us through this requirement, its reality, and the reasons for doing so.

We are told to love our neighbor as ourselves, or better still as Christ has loved us. But who is our neighbor? Do we decide who our neighbor is or is that out of our control. Or do those around us determine if we are a loving neighbor or not. We will answer these questions today.

By Pastor Glenn Pease December in Peru is just as hot as July. The jungle is steaming and the insects are ferocious. Yet in that jungle setting more than 300 people from the Wycliff Bible Translators celebrate Christmas. The twinkling Christmas tree lights are not on a pine or fur tree, but on a banana…

By Pastor Glenn Pease One of the 7 wonders of the natural world is the famous Natural Bridge of Virginia. Tons of solid rock form a bridge over a creek 215 feet below. This massive masterpiece of God's bridge-building skill has caused many to stand in awe and recognize that, not only the heavens, but…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Pitiram Sorokin in his book The Ways And Power Of Love tells of how in 1918 he was hunted down by the Communist Government of Russia. He was imprisoned and condemned to death. Everyday he expected to be shot as he witnessed the shootings of his friends and fellow prisoners. For…

Intro – A lecturer named Emily Kimbrough was once being introduced when a loud hissing sound came from off-stage. The MC excused herself to speak to a maintenance man beckoning from the side. She returned to announce, “Before we continue with the program I have some unhappy news. We will be delayed for…

Intro – This morning we are looking at an amazing passage of Scripture that tells how Jesus called his disciples. Contrary to what we think, they didn’t just drop everything overnight and follow Him. As relates to Peter and his partners, it was at least a 3-fold process. First, John the Baptist introduces…

Intro – One day with Mom and Dad gone, brother Jon, age 15, got ahold of the car keys and helped himself to a ride in Dad’s brand new Ford station wagon. Naturally, his sin found him out when he backed into a fence and put a heavy scratch on the rear fender. When I found out, we connived to save his…

Luke 9:57-62 Stephen Caswell © 2001 Discipleship - How We Finish The Race By 7 p.m. on October 20, 1968, at the Mexico City Olympics Stadium, it was beginning to darken. It had cooled down as well. The last of the Olympic marathon runners were being assisted away to first-aid stations. Over an hour earlier,…

John 21:15-22 Stephen Caswell © 2005 Strawberries & Cream Sometimes things are better in pairs or threes. Bacon goes better with eggs. Strawberries are better with cream and meat pies need tomato sauce. So too in the Christian life, service needs to go together with love. One without the other is incomplete.…

Elements of Sacrifice 2 Samuel 24:18-25 Let's first consider a few historical views of sacrifice. In the fourth century A.D., St. Augustine said of sacrifice: A true sacrifice is every work which is done that we may be united to God in holy fellowship, and which has a reference to that supreme good and…

Every financial transaction that we engage in makes us to think about two things: cost and benefit. If the cost is greater than the benefit, we usually don’t follow through with the deal. But if the benefit exceeds the cost, and assuming we have the money, we are more likely to buy the item in question.…

Mark 8:31-38 (Pew Bible 714)"He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke…