Discipleship


9. The path the disciple follows:
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  • A. A disciple obeys God's will & follows:
  • B. A disciple obeys his spiritual overseers:
  • C. Obey & follow even without understanding details:
  • D. Disciples willingly adapt & change:
  • E. Forsake your reputation; obey unorthodox orders:
  • F. Love other disciples & work in unity with them:

  • A. A disciple obeys God's will & follows:

    NUM 22:18. And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.

    LUK 6:46. And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

    LUK 14:27. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

    JOH 2:5. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.

    JOH 8:31. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

    REV 14:4. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

    B. A disciple obeys his spiritual overseers:

    1COR 11:1. Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

    1COR 16:16. That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.

    PHI 3:17. Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

    1TH 1:6. And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.

    HEB 13:7. Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

    HEB 13:17. Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

    C. Obey & follow even without understanding details:

    JOH 21:21. Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?

    JOH 21:22. Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.

    2COR 5:7. (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

    HEB 11:8. By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

    D. Disciples willingly adapt & change:

    LUK 9:3. And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.

    LUK 22:35. And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.

    LUK 22:36. Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

    E. Forsake your reputation; obey unorthodox orders:

    ISA 20:2. At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

    ISA 20:3. And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;

    ISA 20:4. So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

    EZE 4:1. Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:

    EZE 4:2. And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

    EZE 4:3. Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

    EZE 4:4. Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.

    EZE 4:5. For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

    EZE 4:6. And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

    EZE 4:7. Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

    EZE 4:8. And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.

    EZE 4:9. Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

    EZE 4:10. And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

    EZE 4:11. Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

    EZE 4:12. And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

    EZE 4:13. And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

    EZE 4:14. Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

    EZE 4:15. Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

    HOS 3:1. Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

    HOS 3:2. So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

    HOS 3:3. And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.

    ACT 10:9. On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:

    ACT 10:10. And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,

    ACT 10:11. And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:

    ACT 10:12. Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.

    ACT 10:13. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.

    ACT 10:14. But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

    ACT 10:15. And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

    ACT 10:16. This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.

    ACT 10:17. Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate,

    ACT 10:18. And called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodged there.

    ACT 10:19. While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.

    ACT 10:20. Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.

    ACT 10:28. And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

    1COR 4:10. We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

    1COR 4:11. Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

    1COR 4:12. And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

    1COR 4:13. Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

    PHI 2:7. But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

    F. Love other disciples & work in unity with them:

    JOH 13:35. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

    PHI 1:27. Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;