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Bible Reference: Matthew 16:24-27

When Jesus gave His famous, and arguably His well-nigh challenging, exhortation to His disciples in Matthew xvi, verses 24-27, He outlined what it would await like in a person's life if they chose to follow Him.

I of MWSB'southward visiting kinesthesia, Pastor Peter Wetendorf from Conrad, Montana, would refer to this type of person equally a true disciple and below he lists eight qualities that Jesus defines during His call in the passage.

Doesn't live for themselves

The first quality that Jesus mentions is that a true disciple "denies himself" (v. 24). If someone wants to follow Jesus, they must have a willingness to give up personal hopes, dreams, and desires. You can not follow Christ if yous come to Him with your ain calendar.

Indulges in sacrificial living

Secondly, Jesus tells us that true disciples "take up their cantankerous" (v. 24). Jesus knew that He had come up to somewhen take upwards His ain cross in order to save sinners, just He as well knew that if someone wanted to follow Him, then they must follow Him into a life of sacrificing their own lives in gild to enter into Christ's life. A truthful disciple, then, is someone who consistently lives with the mindset that the true life they accept in Christ is worth the loss of the earthly life they had without Him.

Sincerely follows Christ

As true disciples reply Jesus' call to lay themselves and their own lives down, they also must stride up and answer the call to pledge their allegiance to Christ—"follow me" (v. 24). Once true disciples have made the decision to surrender themselves and live sacrificially, their hearts are then ready to obediently follow Christ.

Commits to God's inverted view of life

Anyone who wants to be a true disciple of Jesus must realize that most of His ways and plans for our lives are counterintuitive to how people would naturally live their lives without His intervention. For example, Jesus says in the text that if you seek self-preservation, y'all volition perish, only if you are willing to surrender your correct to self-preserve in low-cal of who Jesus is, then He will be the one to preserve you and give yous true life (v. 25). This way of thinking is very inverted to the mode we naturally think, and then a true disciple must commit himself to believing Jesus' words to be true.

Invests in things that matter

Every quality Jesus has listed so far has provided a radical calling for people who want to exist true disciples, and Jesus does non slow down in poesy 26 when He challenges those would-be disciples to consider His claim that there is literally nothing in the world, nor the sum of any or all things in the world, that compares to the value of the conservancy of a human being soul. Truthful disciples have an ability to discern the deviation in value between material possessions and the salvation of man souls and they and so invest all that they have accordingly.

Perceives deception as existent

Like to the previous quality, Jesus mentions further in verse 26 that it is possible for people to "give" away (or "forfeit" gaining) salvation for their soul in lodge to receive something they perceive as greater than salvation. But what can be of more worth than conservancy? The true disciple of Jesus Christ realizes that there are forces at piece of work that are trying to deceive them as to what is near valuable in life and, considering they are truthful disciples, they are able to stand up strong in the face of deceptive temptations.

Lives in view of Christ's render

In a world full of brokenness, evil, and suffering, all people, whether they follow Christ or not, are looking for the light of hope to come from somewhere or someone. Those who are not true disciples of Jesus Christ volition spend their days searching for hope in many things, fifty-fifty good things at times, but eventually the hopes that all things on earth promise to united states fade. The true disciple, however, knows that they have a hope that will prove its ability on the day it is revealed—the promise of Christ'south render. True disciples have a quality of hopefulness because they know their Savior is coming back.

Expects to exist held accountable

One of the ways people who live under the power of deception justify their life and decisions is by claiming that they will not be held accountable by a moral superior at the end of their life. True disciples of Jesus Christ, still, believe that not only is "the Son of Homo is going to come" (5. 27), only when He does he will "repay each person according to what He has done" (v. 27).

Peter Wetendorf

Peter is the Senior Pastor of Conrad Mission Church building in Conrad, MT where he has served for over xx years. He has been an MWSB visiting faculty member for over 15 years. Y'all can listen to his sermons here.

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Source: http://cbarnmission.org/resources/follow-me-8-qualities-of-a-true-disciple-of-christ/

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