well, good morning, so a church. Good morning. So our church family tuning in on the livestream. So good to be with you guys this morning. So good to continue our series in the gospel of luke. Um if you’re new to soar church, my name is dan, I’m one of the pastors here and um I’m looking forward to preaching God’s word to you this morning. Um as I said, we’re going to continue in the gospel according to luke, we’re gonna pick up in chapter nine verses 18 through 27 so go ahead and grab a bible. Um there’s a bible on a chair near you. If you didn’t bring one or if you don’t have one, download it to your smartphone or anything like that, you can use that bible, you can actually even take it if you need it. Um but we’re gonna be looking at luke, chapter nine verses 18 through 27. And while you turn there, let me set the table for this teaching by saying this. Uh recently I was listening to a podcast is the most popular podcast in christendom today and one of the subjects that was covered in this podcast was the topic of celebrity and in covering this topic of celebrity. Uh the the announcers were talking about how in this post modern age, it is possible, it is now possible for a person to become famous, successful and rich without ever having to display any of the great virtues virtues like love and courage and sacrifice that. It is possible for a person to become famous in this post modern day and age without ever having to display any of those great virtues and that’s significant to us today because we have the same temptation in the church. This kind of thinking has already permeated the Lord’s church. We want to be a disciple of the Lord jesus christ, without ever having to deal with the great virtues or the fruit of the spirit or the very character, an example of our Lord and savior, jesus christ as he sacrificed as he did things in a very courageous manner as he stood for something that was indeed of God and we want to be a disciple of jesus without ever having to do any of those things. We wanted to be a smooth path to success, to celebrity to a place of being an influencer, without showing any of the great virtues let flow from God’s spirit. So that has permeated the Lord’s church and that is in direct contrast to what Jesus is going to say to his disciples in Chapter nine of Luke’s Gospel. The last thing I want to say before we read the passage is this, if you take nothing else away from this sermon, I want you to take away these things, these four things First is this life is challenging secondly, the world is fickle. Thirdly discipleship is costly, but jesus is worth it, Jesus is worth it, he is worthy life is challenging the world is fickle discipleship is costly, but Jesus is a worthy savior? He is worthy for you to give all of your life to follow him to be his disciple, following in his example and living for his glory, he is worth it. And it is the most important thing you could ever do with your life is to be all in for the Lord Jesus christ following him and living as he prescribed for us. Hey man, hey man, you guys are awake this morning. All right, let’s read the pastors this morning again uh luke chapter nine, beginning in verse 18, it says now it happened that as he was praying alone. Speaking of jesus, the disciples were with him and he asked them who do the crowds say that I am and they answered john the baptist’s but others say elijah and others that one of the prophets of old has risen. Then he said to them, but who do you say that I am? And Peter answered the christ of God In verse 21 and he strictly charged and commanded them to tell this to no one saying, the son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and on the third day be raised and he s…