Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cost of Discipleship - Part 3\n John 16:1-2\n 06\/04\/2025\n\n\n 1 I have said all these things to you to keep you\n from falling away.\n 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed,\n the hour is coming when whoever kills you will\n think he is offering service to God. (ESV)\n\n Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the twentieth century Lutheran\n theologian who was executed for his opposition to the German\n government during World War II, once wrote, ``When Christ calls a\n man, he bids him come and die.''[1] Because the Christian witness\n concerning salvation by God's grace and love alone for the sake\n of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ alone does not\n conform to the world's teaching, Christians can expect to be\n prosecuted for their faith.\n\n Jesus told His disciples:\n I have said all these things to you to keep you from\n falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues.\n Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will\n think he is offering service to God.\n\n\n If you are looking for acceptance in this world, if you are\n looking for popularity, being a confessing Christian is not the\n way to win worldly friends. If you are looking for the comfort\n of knowing your sins are forgiven, that you can face the\n realities of pain, suffering, and death knowing that you have the\n hope of eternal life for the sake of Christ, the rejection of\n this world is easier to take.\n\n You have the comfort of the Gospel, that you have died to\n sin through the work of the Holy Spirit, and have risen to new\n life in Christ Jesus. You see beyond the immediate suffering in\n this world to glimpse the glory of the mansions of God, of being\n with the Father for all of eternity. The Holy Spirit gives you\n the comfort of salvation by grace through faith for the sake of\n Christ.\n\n May our Lord strengthen your faith, that when you suffer in\n this world you have the assurance of life everlasting. Amen.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 4, 2025 Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3382,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}