Free, But Costly (Luke 14:26-33)
Chris Rose, July 31, 2016Part of the Sunday Messages series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
Common sense would seem to tell us that a thing cannot be both 'costly' and 'free' at the same time. If I must pay a high price for something, then it is not free; if it is free, then I am not required to pay for it. This observation, leads us to a theological puzzle: do the promises of the gospel come to us for free or at great cost? The Bible uses both kinds of language and this what we will explore today.
Luke 14:26–33 (Listen)
26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
(ESV)
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