One of the many things that are lacking in evangelicalism today....when actually evangelizing....is telling plainly the listener....of the cost of discipleship. We may have....and in fact we did get away with this twenty and thirty and forty plus years ago....but it is more important today than ever that we tell those who have an interest....that it is a soldier's vocation that one is being called to....and a soldier means battles.....and wounds....and at the very least.....great difficulties!
The doctrine has always been the same....it's just that today....I'm writing this on January 31, 2026 but it could have been any time in the past seven or eight years...today we are heading....if we are not already in....that seventieth week of Daniel....otherwise known as....The Tribulation....as opposed to....tribulation....which has always been a possibility for the believer.
I would have liked just to put a YouTube up of this sermon from R. C. Sproul....for it would have been easier....but a YouTube is not available on this particular sermon of 28 minutes....but please consider putting the URL that is below on your address line....and be blessed by a sermon from this man who went to be with his Lord and Savior and King....eight years ago. R. C.....who may be the finest of all teachers that God had given the church in the past fifty years....was also a Pittsburgher.
https://learn.ligonier.org/sermons/cost-discipleship-luke-weekends
