East Ridge Pres

Luke 14:28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it ?29 Otherwise, when he has laid a 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.’ Are you going to be able to finish what you have started? Did you really count the cost? Did you really understand what allegiance to Jesus, what faith in Jesus, meant when you first said that you believed? There are many who never counted the cost. They didn’t know what it meant to obey Jesus and yet they prayed a prayer and said they had put their faith in Jesus. They came in to the church with the wrong idea. They didn’t know the cost. They didn’t know they had to give up everything to obey Jesus. They thought they just had to pray and believe. They thought they were trying to get forgiveness now and heaven when they died. Then they found out Jesus demands everything. v 33 So therefore, any one of yo