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BUT JESUS SAID TO HIM.. FOLLOW ME AND LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR OWN DEAD..       MATTHEW 8:22.

THE PRICE IS RIGHT !

We often hear of the cliché around Christendom … Jesus paid the cost.

And this is true to a degree. Jesus actually died on a cross for sinners and we may be saved by grace through faith in Him. And then faith in Him will always lead us to strive to enter via the narrow gate ... amen?

But there is another price also to be paid .. and this is to be paid by each individual that takes the offer of eternal life and safety. Matthew talks about it in Matthew 8:18-22, Matthew 10:34-39, Matthew 13:45,46.

All of these scriptures relate to death to self, relatives, family, this world and selfish ambition. Yet we have the famous cliché of .. Jesus paid the price drummed into the heads of each and every church goer in the world, leaving the gullible, the ignorant and the unlearned with no other thought than that Jesus paid the price, there's naught to be done.

Jesus did pay the price but as we have already seen by the words of Matthew, there is a price for all to pay who choose to follow after the Christ. So we clearly understand that there is .. a cost!.. there is a price we must pay to gain eternal life. The man who said to Jesus, let me first bury my father, found this out real quick. The scribe said to Jesus.. I will follow you wherever you go! .. are you sure about that?

Jesus words were … I have nothing, not even a bed .. Matthew 8:20.

In general … Jesus got personal, financial and domestic about the entire issue of discipleship, being a Christian and one of His sheep, a saint.

These are only a few of the many references to prove, confirm and reveal that there is a price to pay and if we choose not to pay the price we shall pay the ultimate price of …eternal torment… 2 Timothy 2:11-13.

When anyone new comes into our local church, I am always quick to let them know that it will cost them to attend our church. It will cost them their sin and their life, which is the very cost of discipleship in the Christ.

Amen.