Count the cost, Lk. 14:25-35Daily costs

*Food*Clothes*Shelter

Count the cost in spiritual mattersCalled to be disciples, Mt. 11:28-30

*Privilege*Responsibilities

Not just,*Faith*Repentance*Baptism

Count the cost in spiritual mattersCost of discipleship VS. Worldliness, Heb. 11:24-26Cost of discipleship VS. Eternal Life, 2 Cor. 4:16, 17

Love our neighbors, Mt. 22:39Those nearbyThose in need, Lk. 10:25-37

Husbands love wives, Eph. 5:25Nourish, cherish, Eph. 5:29Physical, 1 Tim. 5:8

Wives love husbands, Titus 2:4Homemaker, Titus 2:5Humble, submissive, 1 Pt. 3:1-4

Parents love childrenMothers, Titus 2:4Fathers, Eph. 6:4

Children love parents, Eph. 6:1-3When youngerWhen older

Love ourselves, Eph. 5:28Not selfishness, Phil. 2:3, 4Value, dignity, Gen. 1:26, 27; 1 Cor. 7:23

Love our enemies, Mt. 5:44Call us namesGossip, slander

The Lord comes before self,Deut. 6:5; Mt. 22:37, 38All else depend on thisKeep commands, Jn. 14:15; 1 Jn. 5:3

Relationship to others VS. God…Love God MORE, Acts 4:18-20; 5:29Atheist parent forbids child to read Bible, Read anyway, Acts 17:11Mother tells daughter not to be baptized, ignore her, Mk. 16:16

Relationship to others VS. God…Love God MORE, Acts 4:18-20; 5:29Husband forbids wife from worshipping, go, Heb. 10:25Baptist demands you stop exposing error, press on, Eph. 5:11

Relationship to others VS. God…Love God MORE, Acts 4:18-20; 5:29Friend offers you drugs or pornography, refuse it, Rom. 13:13, 14Brother cries out against preaching truth, preach on, 2 Tim. 4:2-5

Count the cost in spiritual mattersCost of discipleship VS. Worldliness, Heb. 11:24-26Cost of discipleship VS. Eternal Life, 2 Cor. 4:16, 17