Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” Another disciple said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
Matthew 8:19-22
Wanna be
Won’t be
Will be
REASONABLE vs RADICAL
Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
Matthew 8:19-20
“Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
Matthew 8:21
Bilbo: I’ll be alright. Just let me sit quietly for a moment.
Gandalf: You’ve been sitting quietly for far too long! Tell me, when did doilies and your mother’s dishes become so important to you? The world is not in your books and maps. It’s out there.
RESCHEDULING vs RIGHT NOW
“Lord, FIRST let me go and bury my father.”
Matthew 8:21
Elijah went before the people and said, “HOW LONG will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him.”
1 Kings 18:21
“Now listen, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.’ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.”
James 4:13-14
“‘Come, follow me,’ Jesus said, ‘and I will send you out to fish for people.’ AT ONCE they left their nets and followed him.”
Matthew 4:19-20
REFINED vs REVEALED
“Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
Matthew 8:19
“The Lord says: ‘These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.’”
Isaiah 29:13
Another disciple said to him, “LORD, first let me go and bury my father.”
Luke 8:21
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?”
Luke 6:46
