Jeremiah 20:7-13 & Matthew 8:18-22 (ESV) - There are any number of points of difference between Jesus and the celebrities of today. But one difference that I think we neglect: if you wanted to be with Jesus, you had to be physically with Him. You had to go out to wherever He was, you had to walk with Him, you had to hear His actual voice in real time. And some people really wanted to be with Him. They wanted to be known as His followers and disciples, His real disciples among the great mass of crowds. But Jesus didn’t make it easy to join Him. In fact, He made some very serious and very hard demands of people who wanted to be with Him. And He makes the same demands of His 21st century disciples too. He is the Son of Man, and if we would go with Him, we must understand what that will entail.