Scott Palmer - THE BLESSING OF FOLLOWING JESUS - 11:00am Blended Worship

The Blessing of Following Jesus
FOLLOW ME – Part 1
June 13, 2021
Mark 10:17-31

“’Follow Me,’ he told them, ‘and I will make you fish for people.’ Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.”  Matthew 4:19-20 (CSB)

 1.   The ___________________ to follow Jesus.

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.”  John 3:16 (CSB)

“Truly I tell you, anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.”  John 5:24 (CSB)

2.   The of _________________ following Jesus.

“Looking at him, Jesus loved him and said to him, ‘You lack one thing: Go, sell all you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.’” Mark 10:21 (CSB)

“Jesus told him, ‘Foxes have dens, and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.’” Luke 9:58 (CSB)

“Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.” Mark 10:22 (ESV)

3.    The______________________ of following Jesus.

“…I assure you that everyone who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or property, for my sake and for the Good News,  will receive now in return a hundred times as many houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and property—along with persecution. And in the world to come that person will have eternal life. But many who are the greatest now will be least important then, and those who seem least important now will be the greatest then.” Mark 10:29-31 (NLT)