Main Idea: Discipleship is a serious undertaking with significant consequences for the believer and those around him/her.

The Demand to Consider Closely Our Impact on the Discipleship of Others

• 42 “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
  • Acts 5:37

The Demand to Consider Our Sin as Egregious and to Deal With it Accordingly

• 43–49 And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,  ‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’
  • Mark 7:20–23
  • Isaiah 66:22–24

The Demand to be Purified and Preserved by Trial and Sacrifice

• 49, 50 For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
  • Romans 12:1

So What?

• We must obey the demands of Jesus to be his disciple.
  • Luke 14:28–33