Sermon Cloud

The life Jesus has opened for us is a new life. It is a life under the care of the Trinity. It is the life to come but also a new life that has come. Jesus calls us to follow him out of the world and into his kingdom. Transformation will be standard issue. But how do we change, how do we follow? In this Sunday's passage, the apostle shows that our following the Great Lord requires a willful denial of self and a willing embrace of God. But as we shall see, these are not efforts that stay safely hidden behind the drapery of the mind, Jesus is calling our mortal bodies to the frontlines. Sunday we will see how the Lord Jesus enlists our bodies into a civil disobedience before the demands of tyrants: the flesh, the world, and the devil. If you can, read Luke 9:23-26 and 9:57-62 before Sunday. Come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.