Luke 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 

God isn’t talking about a cost the we have to count. Instead God is talking about a cost He has already counted The cost was 30 years in Nazareth, those three years of popularity, scandal and hatred, and deep agony in the garden of Gethsemane, in the suffering at Calvary – the turning point of all time and eternity. Jesus Christ has counted the cost. Men are not going to laugh at him at the end and say- “this man started to build, and was not able to finish.” The condition of discipleship laid down by God in verse 26 2733 26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. mean that the men and women he’s going to use in building the kingdom are those who God has done everything. “If any man come to me,and hate not…, He cannot be my disciple. God implies that the only men and women he will use in building His Kingdom are those who love him personally, passionately and are loyal to Him beyond any of their closest ties on earth. This is the ultimate requirement, only the One who gave everything is worthy of in return. All that we build is going to be inspected by God is God going to detect in his revealing fire that we have built on the foundation of Jesus some enterprise of our own? These are days of tremendous enterprises, days when we are trying to work for God, and There in is the trap. Profoundly speaking, we can never work for God. Jesus takes us over for his enterprises, His kingdom blueprints alone, and no person has any right to play the role of the Holy Spirit or redifine the perfect blueprints God has laid out for His Kingdom.