ADJUSTMENTS REQUIRED Ambassador – Part 7 5/19/2024 In Luke 14: 25-33 Jesus tells us that there is a cost of becoming a disciple. “Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said:” Luke 14: 25 NIV Getting from where I am to where God wants me to be requires adjustments. Adjustments may be required in your... • CIRCUMSTANCES (job, home, finances) • RELATIONSHIPS (family, friends, business associates) • THINKING (prejudices, methods, your potential) • COMMITMENTS (to family, church, job, plans, tradition) • ACTIONS (how you pray, give, serve) • BELIEFS (about God, His purposes, His ways, your relationship to Him) AN ADJUSTMENT OF DEVOTION. "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple." Luke 14: 26 NIV Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matthew 10:37 NIV The key to making adjustments in becoming a disciple/ambassador of Jesus is Devotion- you must decide who will be the priority in your life- who are you devoted to? AN ADJUSTMENT IN MY LIFE. And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:27 NIV 1. SURRENDERING our life to God. Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. Luke 9:23-24 NIV Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Matthew 10:38 NIV 2. DEPENDENCE on Him. I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:5 NIV AN ADJUSTMENT IN MATERIALISM. “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’ “Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand2 If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. Luke 14:28-32 NIV In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples. Luke 14: 33 NIV See Matthew 19:16-23 No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Matthew 6:24 NIV What you do right now tells God what you believe about Him. Is He worth it?