If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in his own glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
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… and yet lose or forfeit his very self? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of Him when He comes in His glory. In the glory of the Father and the holy angels. Listen to verse 27. I tell you the truth. Some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the what? Kingdom of God. You come after me. You deny yourself. Take up your cross. Follow me. You lose your life for the kingdom. Some of you will not taste death until you enter the kingdom of God. Same chapter over in verse 57. Some guys come up to Jesus. They are eager to be His disciples. We want to follow you. Look at verse 57. They were walking along the road and a man said to Jesus, I will follow you wherever you go. Here's a prospective disciple. What does Jesus say? Jesus replied, There's no rich Carlton on this road. Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests. …
… but they lose their soul. Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the son of man will be ashamed of them when he comes in glory and in the glory of the father and of the holy angels. I wanna preach a message today. Write down the title. It's called, I want to know him. I want to know God. That is our prayer at Zilloway. We want to know him. We don't wanna know about God. We want to know God. and by the way all of this desire this pursuit comes from the reality that God first chased me there's a book that I love by a guy named Pastor Tommy Tenney Pastor Tommy Tenney wrote a book called God Chasers what a title God Chasers and it's this idea that for 21 days we're going to chase we're going to pursue God but the only reason why we are desiring or pursuing God is because anybody thankful that God first pursued me? Let me just encourage you today. …
… What good is it if someone gains the whole world and yet loses or forfeits their soul? Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the son of man will be ashamed of them when he comes in glory and in the glory of the father and of the holy angels. Go back up to verse 23. Whoever wants to be my disciple. Let me give you a working definition of disciple. A disciple is a wholehearted, committed follower of the teachings and the teacher. So let me just say that again. A disciple, anybody that's a disciple, is a wholehearted, committed follower of the teachings and the teacher, Jesus. So let me ask you one more time. Anybody want to be a disciple? Yeah, come on. That's all of our prayers. We want to be wholehearted. I don't follow God with half my heart. I follow God with all my heart. I am not halfway committed to Jesus. I'm all the way committed to Jesus. So I'm a wholehearted, committed follower of the teachings and the teacher. And he said, if anybody wants to follow me, they must pick up their cross. How often was it? Daily. What is your cross? Your cross is your ego, your agenda, your plan for your life, your will, your dream. You got to pick up that thing and deny yourself so you can follow God. You got to make life not about you. Now it's about him. And he said, anybody that dies to themselves will live for God. But if anybody that's still …