Ch11_05_Sermon_Have a desire in your heart and live by faith

Living and dying while striving to the death to eat well and live well only for oneself is one lifetime, and yielding one’s heart after being born again, believing in the word of God, breaking one’s own flesh, and serving the Lord until one departs is also one lifetime. A lifetime is the same either way. But which is better? We must count the cost. The Lord told us to count the cost when we follow Him. “For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it” (Luke 14:28). It means, would one not count the cost before building a tall tower? He also said, “Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace” (Luke 14:31–32). It means that when the enemy army is invading and our army is small and our tactics are weak, we should quickly send a delegation and ask for conditions of peace. It means that we should make peace, saying that we will pay so much in tribute every year, so please let us keep our country. The Lord told us to count the cost and then follow. That is why the Lord also said that whoever wants to become His disciple must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Him. If we follow without counting the cost, we regret it. When one has followed for quite a while, having come along following what one could not even follow, and one regrets having followed this far since one cannot follow anyway, it becomes resentment in the heart.

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