Have you ever heard a group of Christians talking about another believer in this manner, "That person is sold out for JESUS." it is spoken in a manner that identifies this person as someone special from the rest of the believers they are associated with.  Have you also heard this statement, "Don't be so heavenly minded that you cannot be of any earthly good."?  These are statements I have, unfortunately, heard spoken numerous times.  What seems to be statements of positive affirmation are actually statements exposing the carnality of many in the church, especially in the west.

This episode we look at the lost truth of being sold-out, which should be the normal for a believer, not the exception.  Look at what the LORD JESUS says about being HIS disciple.  Ask the question, "How can anything other than being sold-out be true for a believer?"


          25      Now large crowds were going along with Him; and He turned and said to them,
          26      “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.
          27      “Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.
          28      “For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?
          29      “Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him,
          30      saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
          31      “Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
          32      “Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.
          33      “So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.
          34      “Therefore, salt is good; but if even salt has become tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?
          35      “It is useless either for the soil or for the manure pile; it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

(Luke 14:25–35)




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