Jesus teaches his disciples about the cost of true discipleship. He uses several analogies: 1. One must be willing to "hate" their family and even their own life in order to follow him. 2. Disciples must be willing to take up their cross, as Jesus did, and follow him no matter the personal cost. 3. Becoming a disciple requires careful consideration, as in building a tower or going to war, to count the full cost and ensure one is able to finish. 4. Just as a king would not go to battle without assessing his strength against the enemy, one must surrender fully to Jesus' lordship to be his disciple. 5

1. Text: Luke 14: 25-35 NKJV
• 25 now great multitudes went with him. And he
turned and said to them. 26 if anyone comes to
me and does not hate his father and mother, wife
and children's, brothers and sisters, and his own
life also, he cannot be my disciples. 27 and
whoever does not bear his cross and come after
me cannot be my disciples. 28 for which of you,
intending to build a tower, does not sit down first
and count the cost, whether he has enough to
finish it.

2. • 29 lest, after he has laid the 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 to make war against another king,
does not sit down first and consider whether he is able
with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him
with twenty thousands. 32 or else, while the other is
still a great way off, he sends a delegation and ask
conditions of peace. 33 so likewise, whoever of you
does not forsake all that he has cannot be my disciples.
34 salt is good, but if the salt has lost its flavor, how it
shall be seasoned? 35 it is neither fit for the land nor
for the dunghill, but men throw it out. He who has an
ear let him hear.

3. Cebuano Version
• Ug dihay dagkung mga panon sa katawhan nga
mikuyog kang Hesus; ug siya miliso ug miingon
kanila, 26 “kon adunay tawo nga muanhi kanako ug
dili siya mudumot sa iyang kaugalingong Amahan
ug Inahan ug asawa ug mga Anak ug mga Igsuong
lalaki ug mga Igsuong babayi, ug bisan sa iyang
kaugalingong kinabuhi, dili siya mahimo nakong
tinun-an. 27 bisan kinsa ang dili mupas-an sa iyang
krus ug dili musunod kanako, dili siya mahimo
nakong tinun-an.

4. • 28 kay kinsa ba kaninyo nga magatinguha siya
pagtukod ug tore, dili una mulingkod pagkwenta sa
galastuhan, kon aduna ba siyay igong ikapahuman
niini? 29 tingali unya hinuon, sa diha nga
ikabutangna niya ang patukuranan, ug unya dili na
siya makahimo sa paghuman niini, ang tanang
makakita niini musugod sa pagbiay biay niini. 30
nga manag- ingon, “kining tawhan igo rang
misugod sa pagtukod apan wala makapahuman. 31
o kinsa bang haria nga sa iyang pakiggubat batok sa
laing hari dili una mulingkod sa pagpakitambag
kon takus ba siya uban sa napulo ka libo ka mga
tawo sa pakig asdang batok kaniya nga may dalang
kaluhaan ka libo ka tawo.

5. • 32 ug kon dili man ugaling, samtang ang usa atua
pa sa halayo, kini iyang pasuguan sa pagpangayo
kaniya sa kasabutan sa pakigdait. 33 busa si bisan
kinsa kaninyo nga dili mubiya sa tanan nga iyang
ginahuptan, dili siya mahimo nga akong tinun-an.
34 ang asin maoy pinakamaayong butang; apan
kon ang asin kawad-an sa iyang lami, unsaon pa
man pagbalik sa iyang kaparat niini? 35 kini dili na
gayud mapuslan bisan pa alang sa yuta o sa abuno,
igasalibay na lamang kini sa mga tawo. Ang mga
may dalunggan nga makadungog kinahanglan
magapatalinghog!

6. THEME: VERIFY
YOUR SITUATION

7. ACCORDING TO THE FREE DICTIONARY,
THE WORD “VERIFY” MEANS!
To prove the truth of by presentation
of evidence or testimony.
To determine or test the truth or
accuracy, by comparison
investigation or reference!

8. • The carpenter- they used scale tape to determine the
height and length of his work.
• The nurse- they used a thermometer to know the
pressure of your blood.
• The husband- they used, pregnancy kit test (PT) to
know if their wife is pregnant.
• As followers of Jesus Christ- let us used our bible to
know the truths if we are really a disciples.

9. Used your Bible to verify your
situation!
• Illustration
• A: a Pastor and his best friends
• One day, the minister of a big church meet his best
friend and invited him to come to his church for
Sunday service. His best friend replied, “ if you will
bring the church in our home town I, my family
and friends will come”.
• This pastor convinced, he spend lots of money to
plant a church on the home town of his best friend
but his friends never come to the new planted
church even ones!

10. •What do you think the
reaction of that minister?
•What was wrong with that
minister?

11. • B: a grand father and his grand son went to
town with their donkey. The grand father put
his son at the back of the donkey. The people
saw and said, “this old man must ride on that
donkey than his grand son”.
• Therefore, the grand father put down his grand
son and he ride on the donkey. After a while,
the people on the other village saw and said,
“what attitude this old man has, by letting this
boy to walk”.
• Then suddenly the grand father and his grand
son carried the donkey across the village.

12. •What do you think the mistake
of the grand father and his
grand son?
•Do you experience they same
situation?

13. My Point is this!
•A: to avoid any pain, you must
discover personally your situation
through God’s word and the
conviction of His Spirit.
•B: be sensitive on God rather than
to any persons!!

14. The two different groups of people
today!
• Believer
▫ They believe that there is God but they cant work.
Their action is totally different on what they believe.
▫ Beware on this stage, Satan believe that there is God
and he tremble. He cant work his faith!
• Disciples
▫ This people are committed, immovable and immitate
the life style of Christ and encourage others to do
they same!

15. Let us consider the teaching of Jesus
about Discipleship!
• Five tools to used to verify your condition today
by looking and considering its meaning!
• 1: The Family
• 2: The Cross
• 3: The Tower
• 4: The King
• 5: The Salt

16. The first Tools- The Family
• V 26 if anyone comes to me and does not hate his father
and mother, wife and children's, brothers and sisters,
and his own life also, he cannot be my disciples.
• 26 “kon adunay tawo nga muanhi kanako ug dili siya
mudumot sa iyang kaugalingong Amahan ug Inahan ug
asawa ug mga Anak ug mga Igsuong lalaki ug mga
Igsuong babayi, ug bisan sa iyang kaugalingong
kinabuhi, dili siya mahimo nakong tinun-an.

17. • “Hate your family”- was a figure of speech which
is hyperbole.
• Hyperbole= is an intentional exaggeration to
emphasize a point.
• The word “hatred, hate” was totally different its
meaning from the Greek words. Hatred or Hates
means- to prefer above”
• You must love Jesus more than anyone else.
• More than your father, son, daughters, wife and your
house hold!

18. Illustration
• Their was a Muslim who converted to the Christian
faith.
• His family made a funeral service for him even
though he was alive.
• After 10 years, his parents saw the transformation of
their son. One day they decided to follow and
receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior!

19. Application
• When you follow the Lord, sometimes you have to
make some difficult decisions in life.
• Some times you have to make sacrifices! (Emotion,
Financial)
• What sacrifices you have made for God?
• True Love will be tested trough sacrifices! In they
same manner true disciple will be tested through
sacrifices!

20. The second tools- The Cross
• 27 and whoever does not bear his cross
and come after me cannot be my
disciples.
• 27 bisan kinsa ang dili mupas-an sa
iyang krus ug dili musunod kanako, dili
siya mahimo nakong tinun-an.

21. Meaning of the cross
• Cross- was a horrible death made by execution at the
time of Christ.
• At the time of Christ majority of the people made a sign
on the air that they agreed that Christ will be executed.
• The people who has a sign and wear a cross on their
neck. That was a sign that they were criminals at the
time of Christ. That was according to the law of the
romans!

22. • The meaning of the cross today are totally
different!
• List that the people think
• A: sickness
• B: problems
• C: financial problems
• Galatians 2:20
• I am Crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live;
yet not I; but Christ lives in me. In the life which
I now in the flesh I live by the faith of the son of
God, who love me and give himself for me.

23. Application
• The cross reminds us, that we are dead
on our earthly pleasures as Disciples of
Christ.
• The things that we are going to do is not
to please ourselves nor others but to
please God our heavenly father!

24. The third tools- The tower
• 28 for which of you, intending to build a tower, does
not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has
enough to finish it. 29 lest, after he has laid the
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.
• 28 kay kinsa ba kaninyo nga magatinguha siya
pagtukod ug tore, dili una mulingkod pagkwenta sa
galastuhan, kon aduna ba siyay igong ikapahuman
niini?

25. Meaning
• It reminds us that being a disciple we
must aim to reach the finishing line.
• We have possess attitude!
• A: perseverance
• B: right perspective
• C: Prepare/ alert

26. Illustration
• A good start is not enough, the most important
thing as Christ disciples is how we finish of what we
have started!
• A: Noah- save from the flood- ended as a drunkard
man who got naked and cursed his son.
• B: King Solomon the wisest man in human history,
yet he didn’t finish well. His many wives turned his
heart from God.

27. A church who has no roof!
• I was driving my motor one time and I saw a
church who has no roof.
• - trees and shrub grown inside!
• I do not know the story of that building but I
learn a lessons. There is a great value in
finishing our work.

28. Application
• Thank God our church is unique from others! other churches
said that IBCP GREDU is a fast growing Church!
• A: 2008- purchase land and we build our Church building!
• B: 2009- front fence and we build the IBLC
• C: 2010- Parsonages and Ceiling
• D: 2011-
• E: 2012- LCD
• F: 2013- Church fence, bought 2 Ld Speakers, books shelves
and ceiling of the IBLC, Pulpit
• G: 2014- Extension of our building, church tiles
• Lets keep our uniqueness and maintain it as we
steps toward the finishing line!

29. Fourth Tools- The king
• . 31 or what king, going to make war against another
king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is
able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against
him with twenty thousands. 32 or else, while the other is
still a great way off, he sends a delegation and ask
conditions of peace.
• 31 o kinsa bang haria nga sa iyang pakiggubat batok sa
laing hari dili una mulingkod sa pagpakitambag kon
takus ba siya uban sa napulo ka libo ka mga tawo sa
pakig asdang batok kaniya nga may dalang kaluhaan ka
libo ka tawo. 32 ug kon dili man ugaling, samtang ang
usa atua pa sa halayo, kini iyang pasuguan sa
pagpangayo kaniya sa kasabutan sa pakigdait.

30. Two kings was mention
• A: the first was referred to the listeners!
▫ King of their house
▫ King of their time
▫ King of their life
• B: the second king was God
Higher than the first king!
Powerful than the first king!

31. We can’t win against God
• No matter how talented we are, at the
end we will fall on the hands of God!
• What shall we do?
• let us make an agreement in peace with
God while he was still a great way off!

32. Illustration
• A life guard
• He saw a man drowning on the water. The people in the
seashore shouted and yelled on him to help the drowning
man. He heard and saw the man drowning yet he didn’t
swim to help him. Instead he walk slowly. Finally, when he
saw that the man was sinking, he immediately swim and
picked him up.
• When they reached at the seashore the people never treated
him as a hero. Instead they were very angry and got mad,
they keep telling to the life guard they said, “when you save
this man in a hurry, he will not suffer like this”.
• The life guard answered, “ you saw, that this man is stronger
and bigger than me, when I helped him immediately both of
us will sink. I wait that he will be exhausted and give up in
order for him not to oppose me.

33. Lessons
• Some times God will allow us to sink!
• This is his response to those who made Him (God)
as “last option”!
• Today, he reminds us to apply the reverse
psychology.
• If other will make God as their last option, we will
reverse it by making him as our first option!

34. Quotation
•Do not wait the flood to smash you,
run and escape from it.
•Do not wait that the wrath of God
will fall to us, instead make an
agreement to God in peace!

35. Fifth tools- The salt
• 34 salt is good, but if the salt has lost its flavor,
how it shall be seasoned? 35 it is neither fit for
the land nor for the dunghill, but men throw it
out. He who has an ear let him hear.
• 34 ang asin maoy pinakamaayong butang; apan
kon ang asin kawad-an sa iyang lami, unsaon pa
man pagbalik sa iyang kaparat niini?

36. •Salt was valuable in the time of
Christ. Roman soldier was paid by
salt rations (supplies).
•Latin words- “Solarium
argentums” were we get our word
“salary”.

37. • At the time of Christ they used salt as preservative.
• We live in a nation with a moral and spiritual
decay.
• A: Moral decay are rampant today
▫ Steve to Steve marriage
▫ Father versus his daughter
▫ Third party
▫ Eve to eve.
▫ Sexual intercourse before marriage
▫ abortion

38. •B: Spiritual decay
▫Majority of Christian are believers
not a disciples.
•Survey says “in the Philippines
alone, 98% believe on the existence
of God”. But 10% were a man and
woman who practice in allegiance
with God.

39. Larry Bridges- a chemist work in
Mokton Salt in Grand Saline
• He said “the pure salt never losses its saltiness”.
• Spiritually our life was mixed with…!
▫ Impure thoughts
▫ Impure behavior
▫ Impure faith
▫ Impure action

40. illustration
• The Old Dog
• There was a friend of mine who told me one day,
that he saw a sign on the gate, “beware of Dogs”.
• When he came inside he was very careful and
watchful. Until finally he meet the owner of the
house and they have nice conversation. At the
middle of their topics, he saw the dog lying on the
floor. The dog was old and dying. “that Dog was
not dangerous to me” he said. “well you are right,
but keep walking close to him and he will bites
you. That’s why I put a sign beware of Dogs.

41. •Christian today is silent and dying!
If you are a true Disciples do not
keep your hearts burning to what is
right.
•This church, needs a man and
woman who will hold its pillar so
that this will continue standing.

42. Conclusion
• Do you love Jesus more than anyone else?
• Are you committed to finish the race ?
• Are you constantly surrendering everything to him?
• Jesus was looking for a few good men and women,
the humble, the pure, the dead, the committed. Will
you decide today to move from being a simple
believer into a committed disciples?

43. • This presentation was made
by;
Rev. Juanito D. Samillano Jr.
• Resident pastor of;
• Christian Community Church Inc..
• Gredu, Panabo, City Philippines.
• Email add;
juanito_samillano@yahoo.com