Seguir a Jesus
Seguir a Jesus é o convite mais transformador da Bíblia. Jesus chamou pescadores, cobradores de impostos e pessoas comuns para deixar tudo e segui-lo. Esse chamado continua vivo hoje.
O chamado de Jesus
Jesus disse: 'Segue-me'. Esse convite simples e poderoso mudou a vida de pescadores, publicanos e pessoas comuns ao longo da história.
and He says to them, "Come after Me, and I will make you fishers of men," and they, immediately, having left the nets, followed Him.
And Jesus passing on from there saw a man sitting at the tax office named Matthew, and says to him, "Follow Me," and he, having risen, followed Him.
On the next day He willed to go forth to Galilee, and He finds Philip and says to him, "Follow Me."
And it came to pass, as they are going on in the way, a certain one said to Him, "I will follow You wherever You may go, Lord"; and Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky places of rest, but the Son of Man has nowhere He may recline the head." And He said to another, "Follow Me"; and he said, "Lord, permit me, having gone away, to first bury my father"; and Jesus said to him, "Permit the dead to bury their own dead, and you, having gone away, publish the Kingdom of God." And another also said, "I will follow You, Lord, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house"; and Jesus said to him, "No one having put his hand on a plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."
O custo do discipulado
Seguir a Jesus exige renúncia. É preciso tomar a cruz diariamente, deixar tudo para trás e amar a Cristo acima de qualquer outro vínculo.
Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wills to come after Me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me,
"If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be My disciple; and whoever does not carry his cross, and come after Me, is not able to be My disciple.
And Peter began to say to Him, "Behold, we left all, and we followed You." And Jesus answering said, "Truly I say to you, there is no one who left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for My sake, and for the good news’, who may not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and fields, with persecutions, and in the age that is coming, continuous life; and many first will be last, and the last first."
Caminhar com Cristo
Quem segue a Jesus não anda em trevas, mas tem a luz da vida. Ele nos convida a crescer nele e a servir como Ele serviu.
Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I AM the light of the world; he who is following Me will not walk in the darkness, but he will have the light of life."
if anyone may minister to Me, let him follow Me, and where I am, there My servant will be also; and if anyone may minister to Me—the Father will honor him.
for to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving to you an example, that you may follow His steps, who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in His mouth, who being reviled—was not reviling again, suffering—was not threatening, and was committing Himself to Him who is judging righteously,
and [speaking] truth in love, we may increase to Him [in] all things, who is the head—the Christ;
You do My judgments and you keep My statutes, to walk in them; I [am] your God YHWH.