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Becoming a Disciple

Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

The Word

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Living Life as a Disciple of Jesus

<span id="en-ESV-29510" class="text Col-3-9" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Do not lie to one another, seeing that <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-29510B&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference B&quot;>B</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-29510B" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>you have put off <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-29510C&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference C&quot;>C</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-29510C" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>the old self<span data-fn="fen-ESV-29510a" class="footnote" data-link="<a href=&quot;fen-ESV-29510a&quot; title=&quot;See footnote a&quot;>a</a>" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+3%3A9-10&amp;version=ESVfen-ESV-29510a" title="See footnote a" style="background: transparent; color: rgb(179, 75, 44); text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; vertical-align: top;">a</a></span> with its practices</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span id="en-ESV-29511" class="text Col-3-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">10 </span>and <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-29511D&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference D&quot;>D</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-29511D" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>have put on <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-29511E&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference E&quot;>E</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-29511E" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>the new self, <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-29511F&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference F&quot;>F</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-29511F" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>which is being renewed in knowledge <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-29511G&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference G&quot;>G</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-29511G" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>after the image of <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-29511H&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference H&quot;>H</a>)" data-cr="#cen-ESV-29511H" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>its creator.</span>

Filled with Love for Others

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, </span><span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-29288B&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference B&quot;>B</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-29288B" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.</span>

Christ the Center

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Fruitful for Christ

<span id="en-ESV-29168" class="text Gal-5-22" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">But <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-29168A&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference A&quot;>A</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-29168A" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>the fruit of the Spirit is <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-29168B&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference B&quot;>B</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-29168B" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>love, joy, peace, patience, <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-29168C&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference C&quot;>C</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-29168C" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>kindness, goodness, faithfulness,</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span id="en-ESV-29169" class="text Gal-5-23" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">gentleness, <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-29169E&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference E&quot;>E</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-29169E" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>self-control; <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-29169F&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference F&quot;>F</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-29169F" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>against such things there is no law.</span>

Love

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

Fruitful for Christ

<span id="en-ESV-26692" class="text John-15-4" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Abide <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-26692B&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference B&quot;>B</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-26692B" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span id="en-ESV-26693" class="text John-15-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">I am the vine; <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-26693C&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference C&quot;>C</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-26693C" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-26693D&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference D&quot;>D</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-26693D" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.</span></span>

Obedient to the Bible

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Deny Yourself Daily

<span id="en-ESV-25571" class="text Luke-14-26" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">“If anyone comes to me and <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-25571B&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference B&quot;>B</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-25571B" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-25571C&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference C&quot;>C</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-25571C" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span id="en-ESV-25572" class="text Luke-14-27" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Whoever does not <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-25572E&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference E&quot;>E</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-25572E" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.</span></span>

Deny Yourself Daily

<span class="text Luke-9-23" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">And he said to all, <span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">“If anyone would come after me, let him <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-25316A&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference A&quot;>A</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-25316A" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>deny himself and <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-25316B&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference B&quot;>B</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-25316B" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>take up his cross <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-25316C&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference C&quot;>C</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-25316C" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>daily and follow me.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span id="en-ESV-25317" class="text Luke-9-24" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">For <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-25317D&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference D&quot;>D</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-25317D" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span id="en-ESV-25318" class="text Luke-9-25" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?</span></span>

Becoming a Disciple

And Jesus said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men."

Supreme Love for Jesus

<span id="en-ESV-23907" class="text Matt-22-37" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">And he said to him, <span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-23907A&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference A&quot;>A</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-23907A" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span id="en-ESV-23908" class="text Matt-22-38" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">This is the great and first commandment.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span id="en-ESV-23909" class="text Matt-22-39" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">And <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-23909B&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference B&quot;>B</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-23909B" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>a second is like it: <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-23909C&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference C&quot;>C</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-23909C" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>You shall love your neighbor as yourself.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span id="en-ESV-23910" class="text Matt-22-40" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">On these two commandments depend <span class="crossreference" data-link="(<a href=&quot;cen-ESV-23910E&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference E&quot;>E</a>)" data-cr="cen-ESV-23910E" style="font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;"></span>all the Law and the Prophets.”</span></span>

Identified With Christ

But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith.